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Show POTATO CROWING CONTEST. With Some Data About Potato Crowing Crow-ing In Utah. Last year the National Copper Bank Inaugurated a potato growing contest and gave a prize of $100 and a sliver cup to the boy under eighteen years of age who raised the largest amount and finest lot of potatoes from half an acre of ground. The prize wa won by Merle Hyer of Lewiston, Cache county. There was one entry from Millard county, Denzel Burke, of Hinckley. The hank has Jut sent out circulars relating to the second contest which will alo be open to all boys under I eighteen years of age. There will be a first prize of 1 100 and the silver cup, and bIho second and third prizes. The contestants are limited to the ue of fifteen varletlea and entries must be made by May 20th. .Blanks for entry en-try can be obtained toy writing to the National Copper Bunk at Salt Lake. They will also send much valuable Information In-formation relating to the preparation and cultivation of potatoes. Millard county can rala a good potatoes as can be grown anywhere In the state. We hop the county will be well represented rep-resented In this contest and that when the boys enter they will stick to It until harvest time. Laat year quite a' numU-r entered but moat of them rfropiwit mi; unit did not attempt to COI'"H . From the e'reu' -r wc have received we rn re whv tHe bunk Is Interested eeiially In j c ito g owing. H la because be-cause potatoes Is th? most profitable crop to grow In Utah and the state is especially adapted for them. The report re-port of the State Bureau of Statlatica shows that In the year 1910 the farm ' value per acre of various crops was aa follows: Wheat, $20.70; oats, $21.84 ; barley, $24; corn, $24.08; hay, $25.72; sugar beeu, $.18 0,1; alfalfa seed, $65.34; potatoes, $$9.58. Our average production for ten years was 146 buh- v el, which was second among all the atates In 1909, third In 1910 and sixth In 1911. As lo quality only six states stood higher than I'tah In the ten years average. I'tah Is able to take high rank In the matter of potato raiding. The high altitude Is in Its favor. A very high projKirtlon of the days are clear. Few potato diseases bother Utah farmers. We are excellently situated for ahlp-ments ahlp-ments east and west. The value of her crop I greater than that of most iif the states with which she directly i-oliiele. Not enough attention Is paid to market mar-ket requirements. The man who can hip straight carload lots of a first cla variety true to name, gets the best price for hia product, except that which goea to the man who sorts bl potatoes, boxes them and market them as a fancy product. In Utah we are willing at prexent to ship mixed carloada and are not careful enough to keep our varieties true to name. When a farmer aetecta a single variety for growing, atlcklng strictly to that, his crop can be made to yield higher returns. re-turns. Kxperience baa shown that the most lurcessful way to ral potatoes In. Millard county la to have the ground thoroughly cultivated, then plow or corrugate. Irrigate thoroughly and aa Mon as the ground Is sufficiently dry plant the potatoeea and harrow them In. Aa soon aa they are up a few Incbea plow between the rows and give Lbem one or two Irrigations before they bloom. A good wsy to give them an arly atart la to "green" them, that I let them sprout on the barn floor a little before they are planted. A few acres of potatoes along with other things would be a good thing for every farmer to raise. |