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Show Digging Potatoes In April In Idaho Boise. Digging Potatoes at Victor, Idaho, in full swing. That may sound peculiar to most Idaho potato farmers who are accustomed to digging potatoes pota-toes in the fall,-but L. G. Schultz, federal fed-eral horticultural inspector for Idaho Ida-ho is responsible for the story. Here it is: Forty acres of spuds are now being dug at Victor. They have been in the ground all winter. The yield is running from 200 to 300 sacks per j acre, with 75 per cent of the crop good, sound tubers.- Early frost caught the diggers last fall, and the ground got so hard that it was impossible to continue work. Along came a six-inch blanket of snow that remained, six-inches six-inches or more all winter, and kept the ground from freezing more than a couple of inches. i |