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Show """cheat Jiimiauis. Four Jumbo Potittuv YW-ld Tlilrt y-fl ve Hun ho Is. In reading Tiirc llL'ur.Kii of yesterday, yes-terday, I noticed an article about potatoes, in which Samuel Worse-croft Worse-croft is awarded the cake for potatoes pota-toes of mammoth proportions. A circumstance was related to me when I read the article clipped from the Payroll G lobe. It is authentic and happened about throe years ago. ' In Plain City, on the farm of Sister Alice Robison. Brother Thomas Morgan, who is now on a mission to New Zealand, raised a large crop of potatoes. po-tatoes. Among them were four selected ones, weighing jointly ten I pounds. These four potatoes were J sent up to Snake River Valley to ; a man who was a former hired man : of Sifter Itohison. Georg; Earns, lie planted those same four potatoes pota-toes on his farm the year following. Bei 11 g busy at digging time, he hired it done and received for his share, after paying one-seventh for the work, thirty bushels, or thirty-five thirty-five bushels in all. I must acknowledge acknowl-edge the Pay son crop was good, but 1 think the Plain City crop much better and en tit led to the ! cake until this yield can be beat, j ! Brigham City, Aug. 19. j |