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Show ":-hels. Idaho K'o'Vs four times, anil ( 'olorado sven times as many. The avei-an'c yield in Utah has averaged betwee n ILii bu hels per acre in HUT) to 11)7 bushels per aeie in V.)22. The average in l!l!;'. for Idaho was 11-5 bushels per aeie and fur Colorado i:;. Utah had the highest per acre yield of any stale in liie Union in '.rS2, Idaho was second, Nevada, third anil Culorndo sixth. The average aver-age yield for the United States was 10 1 bushels. Thirty live years ae,'o Utah potatoes pota-toes weie Inmo'.is h'd today if Utah potatoes are served they are called Iddio poialoes. Why'.' Idaho is main-l!iin!"r main-l!iin!"r mari el y; 'Miles and standards When you buy a sari; of potatoes in Utah you may ivf two or three varieties vari-eties ami those may vary in siv.e from I be si,i' of a walnut to that of jour dorble fist. If U'ali is to have f i : : t class po-1 po-1 ,-1 1 , 1 on llie mailel she must ob-srive ob-srive piles of c'radiur; and slaudard-i.a slaudard-i.a 1 ion. THE POTATO IN UTAH j Potato production is hazardous in the; state, not only on account of the varying market but because of failures fail-ures due to disease, etc. A roan in the business of Krowine; potatoes consistently expects on our fertile Utah soils from '1 1)1) to (i()0 bushels per acre. Potato diseases thai, live in the soil are intensified by irriu"1-Uon irriu"1-Uon water and have so riddled such j fine crops of potatoes thai, tie: yields 1 have often been cut to 2.r per cm', or tlie normal. Many nood pol ito men have gone out of the business because of the inroad of these diseases.. dis-eases.. Mosaic, ibi'.octonia, the wills and other blights annually take a toll from a half a million dollars worth of potatoes in the r.l.ale. We know very little about these diseases, but a "o looking to the Utah Kxt primenl al Station to do some original v.orl; 0:1 Here pest:', to determine how Ibey might, be colli 'olh'd. I Instead of shipping in seo'os of en loads of seed potatoes f'om iMin-rusola, iMin-rusola, we should be shipping feu-, lil da of carloads of seed from our' j h igle'i' mount a in va I leys j I llah gi'ovM about. I ,'.,11110 to :").-, 000 acres of potatoes annually yield , ing about, 2,.riOI),0()0 to -1 ,000,1)00 bu , |