Manti Messenger | 1926-04-30 | Page 2 | Digging Potatoes in April in Idaho

Digging Potatoes In April In Idaho Boise Digging Digging Potatoes at Victor Idaho in full swin swing That may sound peculiar to most Idaho potato farmers who are accustomed to digging potatoes potatoes pota pota- toes in the fall but L. L G. G Schultz federal federal fed fed- eral oral horticultural Inspector for Idaho Idaho Idaho Ida Ida- ho Is responsible for the story Here HereIt 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 to sa sacks ks per acre with 75 per cent of the crop good sound tubers Early frost caught the diggers last fall and the ground got gotso gotso gotso so hard that it was impossible to continue work Along came a six-inch six blanket of snow that remained six- six Inches or more all winter and kept the ground from freezing more than thana a 0 couple of inches I