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Show POTATO STUDY POSTER A most attractive, interesting and instructive in-structive "Potato Study" poster has just been issued by the Agricultural Department of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and is one of the most comprehensive potato studies that has yet been circulated. At the top of the poster the eye rests on a large plate of potatoes, clean, healthy and lifesize. Below these are illustrations of potatoes afflicted with those disease s which cause the greatest amount of trouble in potato pota-to fields of the United States today, namely: bommon Scab, Fusarium Wilt and Rhizoctonia, accompanied by a description des-cription of the disease carefully written in simple language without the use of technical terms. Farmers can readily understand these descriptions, and by the aid of the very clear pictures, determine de-termine whether the potatoes they are saving for seed have any of these troubles. I The fundamental truth Rotation of crops as the surett plan to cleanse the soil of all crop disease germs is prominently pro-minently displayed in the poster. Eight methods of control are given, as well as I the details of the Corrosive Sublimate treatment for seed potatoes, which is believed to be the most thorough and effective remedy. County agriculturists, bankers and station agents are co-operating with the Rio Grande Commissioner of Agriculture Agri-culture in his endeavor to get this "Potato "Po-tato Study" poster into every farm home in the potato growing districts served by this system. This work is calculated to do a permanent and positive posi-tive good in the potato territory of the Rocky Mountain Region. |