| Show written n for this paper A POTATO PATRIOT SPEAKS KANOSH utah dec 9 As a potato patriots patriot 1 I in common with my neighbors was surprised and somewhat humiliated to learn of murphy w retreat in utah we hav coasted boasted that he be could conquer tbt world and now we are silenced ellen oed by bj your jour article of dec let informing m u that we are scarcely in the fight at ai all the statement that utah hits has a shortage lie la astonishing news in these parts and the probability of a utah patriot having to eat a scotch spud here at me alles headquarters to ie hamill ting sting A few years ago I 1 was temporarily located on an the tyne sides bide 12 and my m friend peter reid bold of your city to convince a sceptic that be could not noi est eat more than one utah potato at a meal sent home and had a cumbe numbe of good utah specimens forwarded when they were unpacked and th at yankee saw pots pota toes that weighed from two to four pounds geordies Geurdi es lip IID was knocked awry and be acknowledged our supremacy pre macy and now the idea of friends in salt lake city having to eat one of those hose little water pebbles that a shoemaker could wax b i thread with suggests indigestion and disgrace my patriotism Is steaming hot and I 1 rise to say that so tar far as an I 1 am informed southern utah never had bad a more prolific crop of excellent potatoes than this year we have hitherto le ie the more northern counties do the talking about quantity and quality oi of everything but when they place us in ID company with arizona 1 t tb braska anu blizzard beaten kansas as tuber growers forbearance is in exhausted and wt w say stand aside and let us come to tm tbt rescue with four aundre bushel to the acre right here on nay my farm ID kadosh my son inlaw john 8 roberte robert was the farmer bis first years bearss experience in that line of farm lug jug an haell intelligent igent and careful calculator atio measured the potatoes him oft I 1 tried to make it a few bu bushela buchelt Bhelt less but he insisted that we grew very every pound of that amount upon alp a acre sud and an eighth of land it war new land of a light sandy loam the potatoes wore were the red willard 19 1 9 ano all that have tested them pron ouno them ot of a very superior flavor I 1 have heard beard of others of my neigh barb 1 crops going over three hundred bushels to 10 the theadore thea acres ore and we were not intending to raise a breeze about it but when lavoyed spud is relegated to the list of w we a want ant to toe be heard soot seen sod and t aten if needs leeila be to maint maintain alte its honors and attest W 1 bounteous r sponge to the tol of the be husbaD uMan your article of the 2nd and winter work vork for farmers 2 is an excellent rc calender that we ought to get up anu dust if we desire to be successful really many of us are too much given to contemplation we whittle out blans ot what w we are boing to do in the spring and wince a little ahot ahei you tell us to chop out the manure ID jarge pieces and haul it on me lue land 10 we were thinking of bitting sitting around and eating all the potatoes and pork we could because the market was I 1 w we heard of one man hauling potatoes fourteen miles and trading them at 10 cents a bushel for whisky he was not a kanosh man and no doubt wanted the whisky very bad we hope the NEWS will give us mure more farming plain talk we want an antidote for politics and regard our old friend as the territorial balance wheel in all matters for the general good ol of the community respectfully A |
