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Show REGENERATION OF POTATOES PLANNED Expert Says That With Proper Seed Utah Crop Can Be Improved. Flah potatoes must be regenerated. I The potato uplift' must come if I tali i .WOUld lay anv claim to raising potatoes w h n il compare with the bet ter class of spuds produced by uearby states. So bays Professor (Jeotge K. Hill, plant pathologist of the 1'tah experi uient a I stat ion, in connection wit h the Ftah Agricultural college at Loan. Professor Hill returned yesterday from a mission in Sev ier county iu euuu cation ca-tion with the regeneraiion of the potato, po-tato, and is at the Hotel Utah. Professor Hill comes bark from Se vier county very enthusiastic over what lia.- Seta done there to improve the quality of I tali pot at oe. bred potatoes are a success there, he said, and can be just as successful in every other count v of the Mate. (I t said there was no reason wh v Ftah should not raise the finest potatoes iu the west (which the state has. by no inea ns. been doingl provided only t hat the tanners go about it right. (.Jood blood is just as essential in raising good potatoes as it is in breed-iug breed-iug good horses." said Professor Hill last e en I ng. 1 The t rouble with too many potatoes raised in Ftah has been that tne growers have uot used selected se-lected seed and have not looked after their t rops properly. This vear the agricultural department depart-ment of the Denver & Kio Grande in troduced among a group of farmers in Sevier county some potato seed from rhe Carbondale district of Colorado, which raises excellent potatoes The railroad people wanted to see if. with good seen, just as good potatoes could not be raised in Sevier county, Ftah. as in Colorado "I have just returned from Sevier i omit v to look at the potatoes the farmers raised with the Carbondale seed. Thev are tine; equal to anything raised in Colorado. Not only was this good seed used, but the farmer- proper-' lv looked after the care of the po-! tatoes while growing. ' The experiment has proved that the trouble with mot of the potatoes raised in Ftah has been that the "rowers have planted "culls' and expected ex-pected to harvest first -class potatoes I said in the beginning, with the reference to horses, it cannot be done. If good seed i used, any part of this state can raise as good potatoes as have been raised this seasou in Sevier county, ' ' t ' ;' |