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Show Crop Test Plantings Made on B.A.C. Farm I Dr. H. U.. Peteiron, of the Soils Department of the Utah State Agri-! culturtl College at Logan, and Mr. Rcllo W. Wcodward, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, also from the' State College, spent Thursday the 18th. at the B. A. C. Valley farm planting a varietal corn test and a fertilizer test in connection with their reserch project work in their fields tt the State Agilcultural College. Col-lege. Leslie R. Hawthorne, also of the Bureau of Plant. Industry, has an experimental avegdtablc seed pio-tiuction pio-tiuction reserch project located on I the B A. C. farm. These experimental experi-mental projests with crops and fertilizer, fer-tilizer, In connection with the State Agricultural College Experiment Station and the U. S. Bureau of l Plant Industry, wll b? watched with Interest by all farmers of Iron Co. ! and Southern Utah, j Planting of the commercial potato I crop in Ircn Ccunty is now fully under way. According to present Indications It appears tJ at I. on ' County's potato production will be j Increased by at leart 40 per cent over last year. Over a period of fifteen years commercial potato production has steadily, although slowly, Increased In Iron County, and it has proven to be the most dependable cash cultivated crop grown in the county.' Last year the County produced I about 1000 acres of commercial po-1 ,tatoes. This year there will be pro-j ,duced 1,400 acres. The 40 per cent I increase in acresage will be on the I Weyl Zuckerman farm Just North ,of Enteiprlpe in the Escalante Val-! Val-! ley. This farm will produce ap- proximately 490 acres of certified j seed potatoes, In aditlon to apprcx-I apprcx-I imately 100 acres of commercial potatoes, on their farm this year. I Last year they produced only about 100 acres consisting mostly of certified cert-ified seed. All other growers in the county will produce about the noimal acreage. |