Show BUG U G se PROOF P R POTATO 0 T A T U massachusetts man produces tubers of great superiority spend spends year years in experimenting V th h various vegetables and make makes many wonderful discoveries his life Cant cantaloupes alouies are fine montague aless clug proof pota to vines that show by analysis wee twice the ratio of tood food products in them over the average tuber carata cantaloupes loupes that run sixteen to doity eight pounds peas that will be ready for picking in half the time that arten pea peas usually require corn in halt a dozen colora colors and of attractive taste these things are some of the achie veme ants of kev rev amos N somers pastor of the little unitarian parish ner ber who bas has spent ears ehrs delving into the chemistry of nature and has accomplished what be he believes Is a valuable thing for man kind especially in potato culture tor for this Is a necessity of necessities mr somer tella tells his story ly say log that the tle L ato rarely matures a seed and notes that the great potato raising companies in maine offer large suma sums ft nail nall measure of seed of aski everybody knows he contin that potatoes grow from he eye of the vegetable in n the fin git id A in the tion by toy mixing the pollen Is not a new thing but will with the potato sou cant do it for theitus no pollen to mix so after many years of trying I 1 have evolved ft what hat I 1 cill graft dicu the problem was harder as toe the potato grows below the ground while fruits and many vegetables grow above and the stalks or stuns can be grafted in the familiar way so one day it occurred to me to graft the sprouts together just at the surface of the ground I 1 took two cuttings sliced thein oft off and then tas fas bened ned them together with the bodies of the tubers touching and the two parts of the sprouts also lying close against each other fastening theia these e together I 1 planted them with the too to of the graft just above the ground at the juncture of the two a new cellular tissue body grew and from this a new variety of potato grew I 1 got this new varley which I 1 call the standard from a graft hybrid ot of the green mountain and the lady somers named after my wife the standard Is a very smooth skin potato with eyes hardly sunken lelow the surface this last tact fact mikes it an economical potato for there is s lesa less waste in peeling it and tho the anal fj shows it has just t talo io the amount of foodstuff in it and twice as much starch as the average potato the average one shows 15 to 18 per cent foodstuff in body weight of my potatoes will voll greatly outweigh I 1 00 pota potatoes tots of the ordinary eort sort ot of the sain e size and on banel measure the sarae same difference occurs the lady somers I 1 got from the barly hose rose and the old delaware potatoes it was M my y raudy of darwin thai that started me file on this thin I 1 have atcha watched d the work of prof george J romanes of Fu anglano glana the author of after darwin and have corresponded with him and I 1 have succeeded I 1 in n this where he fahed failed profs geddes ani ant thompson of F edinburgh are al also so in the same line I 1 but I 1 feel I 1 hale have sur bur parsed passed them in results ny aly results four years ago were ere first definite after 35 years of trying the vine ot of my potato has bas a pe cullar odor wor and Is ts offensive to the potato bug tor for it never goes near them I 1 have taken take en bugs irom from plants in the next row r ow in of the usual ape my potato I 1 latch atch and put them on the new now vines and in half ha it an hour I 1 an win t find one and I 1 really feel I 1 have got hold of a bug proof potato it 20 thice in itself for look that a big at the expense saved be the farmer in and carls green and in labor then agala tin the roots of or my potatoes ire ver ter much louger longer than tho the aver age roots which of 0 course makes flici all the bitter as plant feeders and as tf slater of drought this Is a au imbry of my discover les lea and results of methods used by me in the epp ration of new varieties of lood food plants especially new species of pota its it s by graft hybridize hybrid iza tion |