| Show RENOr KNOW UTAH EL By ALBERT F. F PHILIPS Jn In In tho dining dking room of ot ox om on ortho of- of tho principal hotels in Jn n Salt Satt toko TAko a l lt t tourist r st who had ud just j tini finished eating a D baked 1 potato poato remarked That is lIS thoi most ol clous baited balu baked d. d potato 1 I I over at ate Is that n. n a. a Utah product After After- being a assured that It U was l Sj the tourist wa was told that DavIs county hed held the tho medal for tho greatest number number- of potatoes grown growl upon one one- ac of ot ground in Inthe tho Union and nd that Ula th tho demand to fo for Utah Ut potatoes f Is Js Constantly growing Growers ers are are a. a producing to SIze sire and aro careful in shipping 4 The c cOol cook oI fertile ferUle soil found in Utah tab t typical pl l of ot a a high altitude dc aC for tOl tho wonderful suc success esa with vitI potato in tins this s state ste. It la Is now ow grown 1 principally in Sit Salt Lake Lako Weber Utah Cachet I Davis Boxelder and tG counties g. g Other sections IU are aro rapidly getting under under- underway way for for- ol be heavier production Utah h TOw growers can an alternate their thelE potato crop v th c ver jr alfalfa which puts put the soil soU i in fine fino shape for subsequent potato potato- crops This This' la 13 duo dua to the tho mellow v l soil lion ii in Utah double theL tbell weight hit In tn tho thio t. two weeks ot t their growth growth- n as a there J 1 Is ample plant food and general general fertility fertility In U the tho o soil when the crop need ib most S The crop for r. r tho the year year- 19 1928 8 was wIl about hels land and ot of the tho total Utah product 6 65 pcr per centi cent i Is Is o oC t the he e ear ear early yo iy type co and U the tho eastern castern and ana southern cutten markets mark and nd Also the local lomI trade absorb them at a g good gooc od VI prices cs while hn the later cr crop p finds a a. satisfactory mart mar ket in in- other other- states S S S The he hc potato ft was wa pointed outs 1 is native to the tho mountainous 0 districts districts' ot of a and and subtropical 1 America m ro from Chile to Mexico a a. o it ito occurring oven far north o h. h as O. ou southern Colorado o orado It It- Itis f is dun cut ctt t. however lio lO V. V JL to det determine where U t I is ou wijer it has has been Introduced ced by b man mn Like malz matze It was c- c cultivated JA and d. d t it Its tube tubers t were Yere used sed fox for food before re the tho dIscovery oC America It seems seems to been first brought bi to Europe from Peru by th the Spaniards early In the sixteenth century and to have spread from front from'S S Spain ln into Holland and but ut o only to be c- c cultivated i in h Ov Do te few gardens gurden gar gar- dens den M. M aa Q curiosity I Itt n nearly nearly- European all an countries lit it iL was vas batata b by which name nam sweet potato I 2 is designated by English En En- gush glish writers down to the tho middle of ot the seventeenth century j The he data dalL 9 Its introduction into tn o Europ p are ara v very ry q 1 It It appears appears' I ars' ars to have b nt br t to to lr Ireland J by Hawkins trader h in to England b by Sir Francis Drako I in 3 J. J Sir Valt Walter Wait t I Is said to hs hv v taken t to Er England In and brought th them n to tho the attention of ot Queen Jo Elizabeth lIzabeth It was It-was- was was' not until a n. time after Jl it m n that t the the q qC qt the tho potato generaL Jenc s Girard In his Herbal published in 1597 described It under the name iiama of ot the Bat Batata ta Virginia but sq sq little w were re It its merits jg thAt It H was wa not nob even In th Complete Gardener a 3 work published In 1719 At t first it was vas regarded chiefly t as s a. a food toDd for tor swine an and cattle eattle but later later-It was thought that on n account ot of gr great grat at yield it might be useful as aa food for poor oo people and for tor the tha famine du ct to failures es of or tho the groin crop But t not until the tho end CLI nd of or- the tu cel century y did dic i it become important as M a a. i field ll crop JO in Germany anc and France which ar ar are today two of ot the tha greatest t st p potato tato 1 producing coun d countries coun n trl tries s' s of tb Hd world Historical data concerning the development of ot the potato O to a as s. s a a. crop In ta orth forth merI is is verY very meagre e. e In 1771 1711 only n white and andred red variety were mentioned in 11 the most h important English work ork on gardening while w lIe today at some some of or tI the tho o experiment stations in Europe and nd America tests tests' are made of of t to va varieties at atone on one Uru time 2 1 In ut Utah h Ii the tho th first potatoes were planted d on the orf bri the aft afternoon of or July 24 24 1847 and n now y no the stat state the best bes potatoes toes toes' In th the world |
