Show CELERY POTATO CROPS FAVORED Visitor Finds Distinct Advantages Held By Weber County fly j y n B M al PRESSEY The The farming arming districts near Og Ogden den otter offer many distinct ad advantages van s to the grower of celery and of f early potatoes Soil and cli- cli climatic cli climatic matic conditions are very favor favor- favorable favorable favor able the products can be put on the market at a time when high prices are assured and end with prop prop- proper proper tho the maintenance er tr attention to Of ot soil soul laws fertility large of con can profitable crops these very cry be grown rown hero here er e every year This Is the statement ot or Eugene H Grubb Internationally known Authority on the potato and con con- suiting agriculturist for tor the Sul- Sul ot of America 1 Corporation Grubb Grubb has hILS been makl making a aur- aur sur survey of Utah and Idaho with ape ape- special vey cial dal reference to the j problems of the potato grower In the control of disease and the maintenance fertility under Irrigation of of soil soli I CIlY CAI He finds that the th farmers orthe or of I the Ogden district building o on fro the the foundation ot of round BOund dural practice Instituted by the pioneers and taking advantage of the supply of cheap fertilizer sup sup- sup the Ogden stockyards and by the packing houses have come nearer nearer keeping up the producing of their land than many districts less leas fortunately sit alt other er rated According to this authority them the problem problem grower grower- able m of the potato grower grower And nd the producer of ot other farm farmand farmand farmAnd and orchard crops near Ogden Ogden- Ogden dis disease js 5 largely one of ot controlling vase ease ase and making the plant food already In the soil available for forthe the growing crops been given This work ork has already en en much attention and Is receiving receiving ing ing material as assistance from the U V A C C- C the agricultural press Institutions that have ha and other i welfare nu nu a U a of the Intermountain country It has been repeatedly pointed out that a proper balance In the mineral JI and organic elements Is U ono one of the essentials In profitable farmIng and that bacterial ac- ac activIty ac activity y tI Is Indispensable and le Is 1 always al- al always al always ways present In soils that produce good crops 0 O FAR FARM f fAs As as example on the farm just north of ot the city on onland onland onland land that has been In cultivation for 40 years or more they are arenow now bOW growing some of the best crops of o berries and celery that have o ever On been produced In this locality This land has been heavIly heavily heavily ily fertilized and the best beet farm practices have have been employed to retain or Increase the fertility of the tho soil Care has been taken to determine the results that have havo followed certain rotations and the application of different fertilizers has been closely watched The condition In which the land landIs landIs landIs Is left after aCter crowing a heavily fed crop has been made mado one of the tho determining factors In the continued use of o commercial fer- fer fertilizers fertilizers fer fertilizers This has haa been adjudged one of the most Important points for some Ironle chemicals operate as a n stimulant and do not produce a healthy effect after Mr has had remarkable success In the growing of ot celery having ha produced some of o the fin fin- finest fin finest est et that has ever been shipped out of o Utah Last Thanksgiving celery from the beds graced the t table ble of W V LL H 11 Miner owner of ot the tho famous Hearts Heart's De- De Delight Delight De Delight light Farm in Chazy county New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and the testimony of Mr Miner was to the effect that It was the finest that ho he had ever entail eaten Dr George H IT Thomas Earp Earp one of the foremost soil soU bacteriologists bacteriologists bacteriologists and scientific farmers In Inthe inthe Inthe the world orld on a recent trip through Utah made the statement that nowhere re had he found celery cel- cel celery cel celery ery th tbt t compared with the Utah product In size and quality qua lit EARLY POTATOES Mr Grubb believes that a good return on the Investment of time tabor labor and land can be secured through the growing of ot early po- po potatoes potatoes po potatoes near Ogden Some of ot the factors to be bo con con- considered considered con considered are Careful preparation of the tho seed eed seedbed seedbed bed on land that Is loose and drained suitable well drained containing amounts of mineral and organic matter and known to be bo free from the germs of those diseases to which potatoes are particular particular- particularly ly liable Tho The selection of free disease disease seed that has been grown for seed and harvested Immature The planting of whole seed as asa asa asa a preventive of disease and as In- In Insurance insurance In that the potato plant will have an abundance of food to a II rapid growth until It Itcan itcan Itcan can establish a root system to lake plant food tood from tho soil soli Frequent and light Irrigation with the water ater running through rows not long longer r than from three hundred to four tour hundred feet and and- Frequent cultivation with the depth reduced each lime time until at the last only the surface IS stirred Observance of ot these suggestions and the usual care cate which good husbandmen will give ghe will Rill result In the gro growing Ing of crops that will yield a good profit one year ear with another It Is la Mr Grubbs Grubb's observation that the tho potato Is a plant that will well repay study and care core care In Its h handling and that the Ogden territory ry Is one that Is s naturally adapted to the production of o this Important crop |