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Show IMPORTANCE OF POTATO, H Not Only Valuable as Food But Ha BBVai Manufacturing Value a Well, BJBBJ Tho potato Is one ot tho most 1m- ,BB 1'orlanl fi od products ot tho civilized BJBJBJ world. Vv lib n history dating back but BJBJBJ little nioie than M0 years, It shows In BJBJBJ that brief tlmo it record of develop- 'BBI meat unequuled by any other agrlcul HJBJ turn! plant. Originally a native of HHH the mountainous tropic and sub-tropic HBJ legions of America, It was taken to HHJ Kurnpo by the Spaniards early In tho BJBJBJ sixteenth century, nnd whllo It did not BJB become popularized thcru so rnpldly BJBJBJ as hero, It has during tho Inst con BBH tury beconio n staple nnd almost In- BJBJBJ dispensable food with most European 'BJBJBJ hBJh Nor Is It Important nlono as a food -BBH necessity, for during tho past CO yearn BJBJBJ vast developments havo been made, BBJfl especially In Fiance and Germany, In HBJ (he manufacture front tho potato ot starch for technical and commercial BJBJJ purposes nnd In tho production ot al BJBJB cobol for light, power and fuel. In .BJBJ deed In some 1'uropcun states tho na- BBH tlonai policy Is to encourngo the mnn BJBJB ufactura of commercial alcohol from BBJh such sources as those In order thnt BJBJB theso countries tuny eocapo to some BJBJB extent tho Importation of petroleum BbBJ upon which n good many of them now BJBJB depend for light and power purposes BBJa It might bo Interesting In this con- BJBJ noctloii to nolo that In 190S Germany BJBJB devoted CO per cent, of her potato crop BBJ to this purpose That Is to say, 700, BBJa 000,000 bushels ot potatoes, moro than BJBJ twlcn as many ns wero produced on BJBH tho wholo continent ot North Amor BJBH lea, were used by theso peoplo In .BJBH 190S for tho production ot commorclnt HHHJ starch and alcohol, HHHJ Potato growing takes rnnk right HHHJ among the hlg agricultural Industries 'jHHj of tho present dny. Pound for pound HHfl tho civilized races, consumo moro po- , HHHJ tatoes each year than they consume HHHJ ot nny othor ngrlculturul product HHHJ whatsoever. H. B. Smith, nt Ontarlc HHH HHH |