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Show CROP DOES NOT NEED WATER Hyrum Johnson, who was a farmer on tie Sand Ridge, has been showing some fine samples of early Ohio potatoes po-tatoes he raised this year without Irrigation. Ir-rigation. The potatoes are, large and smooth and because of the nature of the soil, are clean, as If washed, when taken from the ground. I Mr Johnson says, "from an acre of I ground I dug and sold about $33 J worth of potatoes, early in tho sum- mer. I was much disappointed In the I yield. I left four rows across the J field which I dug yesterday, and waB j astonished to find that the potatoes of this so-called early variety have been growing right along, although 1 the vines have been dried up for some time. If I had left them all until un-til this time the yield from the wholo acre would havo amounted to nearly 1 200 bushels. I believe that If I had left them for another month or tix I weeks, the growth would have added another 50 bushels. "A yield of 250 bushels of potatoes means, at present prices about ?135 per acre. 1 am convinced that It Ib a poor plan to dig potatoes In July in order to get the fency prccs paid at that time. Tho farmer will mako money to let tho crop grow. "When cooked tho potato that Is grown without irrigation Ib mealy and j falls to pieces and mashes up eajiiy. I it is not the tough, rubbery potato that gets harder the more It is cook- 1 ed, as Is sometimes the ct with tho . Irrigated potato. "The Oregon Short LIpe certainly I had the right idea when it sent an I export through the country last year j urging tho farmers to rajac potatoes. Of course the railroad wantu the busi- j ness of hauling out the crops to other oth-er markets, but Utah can certainly grow fine potatoes." 00 |