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Show UTAH TWEMTY-SEVEHTH ! AS POTATO PRODUCER (Continued from last week) (.rue to name. When a farmer- wlects a nitidis variety for growing, sticking Btrictly to that, hiH crops can be made to yield higher return. We will in the future plant more land with potatoes and will secure great incrensefl in production due to better methods. Improved strains and va,rie-ties va,rie-ties will count a great deal, and better understanding of seed potatoes and of the laws of production will be a big factor. Our present annual crop is about 2,-280,000 2,-280,000 bushels. Suppose that by the use of greater care and science, without increasing the acreage at all, we were able to increase the farm value of the crop by even ten per cent. That is close to a minimum yet it would be an item worth striving for. The National Copper Bank will give in 1912 and succeeding years, a prize to the boy under eighteen who can raise the best potatoes. The competition will be under the directorship of Louis F. Boyle, B. S. A., who is the consult- irg agriculturist of the Intermountain Industrial Association. There will be $1000.00 in cash and the silver trophy cup a beautiful and costly piece of j workmanship on which will be engraved j each vear, the name of the winner, his address and the variety of potatoes he raised and the number of bushels per acre. If a boy wins the cup three times in succession he is entitled to keep the cup permanently and a new one will be offered in its place. The boy making the highest score in each county will receive a recognition, the details of which the bank is not yet ready to discuss, dis-cuss, for its plans on this point are not completed. The cup, bearing the winner's win-ner's name, will be shown at fairs, in all the towtiB and cities of Utah, and at various expositions and land shows in the large cities. |