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Show TO GROW TEST SPUDS AT CLARA Dr. F. E. Stephens, state agricultural agricul-tural inspector, and John E. Blazzard, agricultural inspector for this section, were here last week superintending the planting of several plots to certified potatoes at Santa Clara. The work was finished Tuesday of this week. Four acres were planted in the Santa Clara district, on the farms of George Tobler, Chas. Hafen, Jacob Frei, Theodore Graff and Henry Graff. The different varieties included includ-ed certified Irish cobblers, Burbank russets, blue Victor, rural New Yorkers, York-ers, green mountain or Idaho rurals, Bliss triumphs and Early Ohios. The seed was secured from different counties coun-ties in the north, including Davis, Rich, Weber, Wayne, Tooele, Sevier and Salina, and represents the pick of the best certified seed potatoes grown in this state. By planting this test crop here at tnis tune it is nopea me plants may be far enough advanced by planting time in the north that they may be inspected for disease infection and a line secured on the merits of the different dif-ferent varieties. This is expected to materially advance the cause of developing devel-oping a good crop of certified seed potatoes po-tatoes in this state. Dr. Stephens may return to inspect the growing plants and an effort will be made to run an excursion to Santa Clara later from the northern agricultural agricul-tural districts to inspect the test plots. |