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Show 9 vi:; y . - A PARTICIPATE IN POTATO CONFERENCE. CONFER-ENCE. These men headed up a Potato Growers Conference staged recently in Cedar City. Lelt to right they. include K. W. Hill, Utah State University; Richard Ohms and Walter Sparks, botti of idaiio, j and Wallace Sjoblom, Iron County oxter.- j sion service agent. 1 Southern Utah Potato Conference Is Held At College of Southern Utah in December Southern Utah potato growers and agrii ultural specialists met at College ot Southern Utah in mid !)e embt r for a Southern Utah Potato t onteieni e ander the direction of Utah Slate University Univer-sity Extension Servi e and CSU. Discussion subjects wrc introduced in-troduced on problems tac ed In1 pota'o crowns i:i southern Utah, potato feitiiii'i an-i irrigation practices, fertilizing and irrigating irrigat-ing potatoes or maximum ield and (iiality; (ulMr.il prai'tices in Idaho; contiol of pi tat" d;s-ea d;s-ea ses. Information was given on potato po-tato storage, ineludimr problems of humiditv control nit-tvne stor- age, and storage refuire:nents of potatoes and how to provide then. Potato marketing was discuss ed and recommendations for the improvement of potato production produc-tion in southern Utah were outlined. out-lined. The group viewea a film of "A New Look in Potatoes." Dinner speaker for the conference confer-ence was Dr. Kenneth Hill, associate asso-ciate director of the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural Experiment Station at USU. Others from USU assisting with the conference weie Jay Haddock, agronomist for agricultural research; re-search; Golden Staker, agronomist agronom-ist for the USU Experiment Sta tion and secretary of the Utah Crop Improvement Assn.; Paul Grimshaw, extension marketing specialist, and Louis A. Jensen, extension agronomist. Participants from the grower group included George Crawford, Enterprise; Vance Tuyioi, Fit- mont; Don Edwards, Lyman; Eugene Eu-gene Mayer and Ru?sei Mayer, Milford. Speelalits from o'lt of state were iiiciiard Ohms, extension potato specialist from Umersity of Idaho and Walter Sparks, hor ticulturist from University of Idaho Ida-ho at Aberdeen. The conference planning com mittce included Gordon Beck-strand, Beck-strand, Richfield; Paul Grimshaw and Louis Jensen, Logan; Wallace Wal-lace Sjoblom, Ceoar City; Grant Esplin, Beaver; Don Huber, St. George; Keith Chapman, Loa; Elmo El-mo Farnsworth, George C. Craw-! Craw-! ford, Giant dove and Knn Bar ' lo-.v, K:itri.nsc; Vernon Oldroyd, I Fremont, and Russell and Eu-I Eu-I gene Mayer, Milford. The com-f com-f mittce served as discussion lead-j lead-j er. I.nal arrangements were made by l'roi ssor . C. Schnn.t.. chairman chair-man of the CSU Division of Agriculture, Agri-culture, Biological Science and Agriculture. |