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Show SEES BIG FUTURE FOR POTATOES IN UTAH 'If l'tah farms prugrrrs a" rapidly during the next five years at they hue during the past one. it P) safe to predict pre-dict that the income from them wii! be increased at leaid one fourth of a million dollars," is the way Louis !'. Boyle, consulting agriculturist of the Intermotintain' Industrial association, summed up his inspection trip through the southern part of the state during the past three weeks. "In no one thing am I more delighted de-lighted than in the prospects of our making l'tah a great potato state, he continued. "Seed that was shipped in from Colorado is making a most splendid splen-did growth and the farmers everywhere every-where are beginning to realize what it means to have good seed. "Another fact that points to the progressivenese of our farmers is that over 0 per cent of these polaloea were treated with formaldehyde before they were planted. I asked the farm-era farm-era to treat the teed as a preventive against disease and they accepted my advice almost to the man. Mr. Bovle further atatea that the railroads are giving great assistance in the furthering of the movement, and alreadv one line has made auch reasonable rea-sonable rates to the coast that farmers farm-ers can now afford to ship potatoes out of the state. . "I have just returned from Hpnng City," savsMr. Boyle, "where we held a meeting for the purpose of discussing the potato movement. Mr. Justenson raised potatoea at the rate of 00 bush-rla bush-rla to the acre last year, and the people peo-ple are now beeomtag quite enthusiastic enthusi-astic I would not be surprised to rind Spring Citv in a few year with sum a reputation for potato growing that would be credit to the whole state. |