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Show Sr THE PROVO HERALD PAGE SIX : iPSitioiaesl-- II GET YOUR SEED FROM illi n - - t. it 1 .... 1 & O in-coura- WE car-loa- ge a In order that you may khow the kind of seed potatoes we have, below is an exact copy of a letter just received from the man of whom we bought our seed potatoes, so that there is no question about the quality. 'R,ek.di the Letter L- - ds f. s - - - , TO) realize that all farmers are not able to do so on account of the high prices of seed. But in order to the increasing of the acreage we have imported several qarloads of seed from Colorado, and want every grower to plant all the suitable ground he has. If you are not able to pay us now we will carry you until you harvest your crops this fall, because we wmt more potatoes planted. Idaho shipped 4600 cars from their 1911 crop, Colorado about 9000 carloads, Utah less than 500 cars. We must wake up. We are going down hill. Colorado and Idaho arc advancing. Let us ship 1 000 of potatoes from Utah county from the 1912 crop. We furnish the seed you furnish the ground. Don't delay, but come and get your seed before it is too late. . ....... m , -- APRIL THE WM. 4 Ik AULT, COLORADO, 19, 1912. i M. ROYLANCE CO., PROVO, UTAH. DEAR, SIRS: I have your communication of the 18th, and note what you have to say in regard to the attacks of the Agricultural papers, also the daily papers on the potato question. t- ":- r .First let me say that there is not a district of its size in trie United States that the question of seed potatoes is more vital than it is here at Ault, as we are in the center of;the greatest potato district Jn Colorado, and in fact we do not take the back seat on potato raising for any section of the '" country. Therefore, "' , V'-- ' 5 - behooves us to pay particular attention to the seed question. Prof. Fitch, potato expert of the Colorado State Agricultural College, lectured to our farmers in this district, about two weeks ago on potato " '"' ' ." """'' " growing and the seed. ..:"7A y was . at that meeting and the question of last year's seed came up for discussion. The Professor recommended of our our people to,; f: that the best seed to plant was the seed that they now. have from their last years crop. Your papers seem to dwell on the point that this seed came from inferior vines, and are called nubbins and culls. Now, Li T ' ' & ". I letine say right here that the vines in this district last year were extra large and strong, and as for the size, it is customary in most all digging time. Now these potatoes that ! shipped you grew from good prolific vines, also yielded a ttmvjrttt? r gooefcrop for the season of 1911. that! I wish to state right here know that farmers right here in this district, during this month of April have bought some of the larger potatoes from the same lot as I shipped you and paid the farmer Now, your Agricultural periodicals, f: cannotay, orshtJuld not say that the experts of Colorado are '"' all wrong on this question and that they are; the only. ones that are right, and especially when they do not know what kind of vines or crop the seed comes from'." "-'.:- -' to carae Denver Consul Mexican seed to of the Last fall a representative purposely potatoes that they had ordered inspect ""- - Commission house there. He was so well pleased that he bought Twelve(12) - .'',' ' ..... -' them sorted as quickly as he desired to have them,rowing tfr the f I they aIso""8hippe"J 12'ca'raTCo were raised, the 27 cars MempnisrTnn; And three act-tha- t for -- 1 through a Jrom-m- e cars at that time, and would have bought more, but I could not get k seasonasupn4hnvat that time.i their planting carssent to the Kelly Merc. (3) ,.- -' . Co. of Cheyenne, rWyoming,only forty. miles from where the color of potatoes r ' . ( S that I have mentioned were all the same kind of potatoes that&ave shipped you, and were bought for seed, and they all came back from stock that had been screened for eating purposes. Now, z ; I . ' . y In this "disSctwe" havevarTeTy'5f7soilsomr little smoother than the potato that is raised w grown in. what we call a clay loam. This soil is heavy and black, and if a little damp at digging time ' "'. . , it sticks to the potato, thus" making itdafker in color, and not so smooth as the lighter soil grown potato. ' show matter this at length, to Now,' Gentlemen, I think that I have gone into "you what other' '' '.' been in regard to the Value, of this seed in question. .' ' . ', : from the time seed that the of or loss that I shipped y6u was growers expense get you aaff (davit But if it will aid you anjrI can, without much peopleliav'e-hadyralso-atetr-attitude-- ,-- 7' grown - I - ' ' ' "rr - : . A kl .11 ' '. J We have also just received a carload of the famous SWIFT'S ARSENATEr OF LEAD. - Don't-- use any otherkindif you - i - don't vant worms, i'hih; , .... ,. . J - II II. - -- , -- x - . . r .... ..' V7T A iio Utah's Largest Handlers. FRUITS and PRODUCE - - - ' a., - '- , " i V ....... ' ., y ' A "' I '. " ;'X-;- ; 1 from good prolific 'Vines, and perfecth healthy seed. . ana ao a ame re to tnat.we win am,r business tne tuture, in' greater Hoping that this will clear the way from any further unpleasantness, ' , Yours truiy, WM. T. MIL'L.KK. W Mo - '' r;:ri ; r 'has ' 'J |