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Show Ii : FARMERS DISCOVER THAT IT .. PAYS TO KEEP DOWN DISEASE j BY FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS I To increase the yield of potatoes 1 1 Trom 75 bushels per acre to -100 bush- els per acre in throe years by com batting disease under direction of the J county farm bureau is the record of j ; C. A. Grouberg of Farr West In 1915 . Mr. Grouberg's acre plot yielded 75 bushels of potatoes. Fusarium wilt at-' at-' tacked the vines with such vigor that the yield "was discouraging small. Preston Pres-ton Thomas, count' farm agent, urged z Mr. Grouberg to go about the eradication eradica-tion of the disease in a scientific manner, man-ner, using a corrosive sublimate solu-tlon solu-tlon to treat the seed potatoes. He did this and his 1917 crop will average 100 bushels to the acre of fine, wholesome whole-some potatoes. The campaign against the fusarium I wilt was carried out in a systematic t order. Out of the 75 bushels of pota toes raised in 1915 only 225 pound? were selected for seed, this being all that was good. TheBc were treated with the corrosive sublimate solution and planted in 1916. The yield in 1916 showed a decided improvement in quantity but there was still from 10 to 15 per cent of the yield blighted with tho fusarium wilt Out of the 1916 crop 4S00 poumda were selected as seed potatoes, a considerable in-I in-I , creaso over the 225 pounds of the pre vious year. These were planted this spring by Mr. Grouberg and ho says that he expects to harvest at least 400 bushels to the acre this year and that the disease has disappeared. Farmers in the Farr West district were skeptical at first as to the new process, but when they saw the results obtained they immediately fell into line. On G. It Deani's farm In Farr West rows of treated and untreated seed potatoes po-tatoes had been planted this spring as an experiment Mr. Dean had reported report-ed upon several occasions that the two kinds of plants were yielding potatoes of no difference. Mr. Thomas visited this place recently and dug two sacks of the potatoes, one sack from the treated rows and another from the untreated un-treated rows. The potatoos looked good In both rows but the untreated rows seemed to yield smaller spuds. But when the sacks were weighed the difference was noted. The sack of treated weighed one-third more than the sack of untreated potatoes. A difference of 1-1 i bushels per acre in the yield on the C. D. Brown farm of the Farr West district was reported, report-ed, th difference being between the treated and untreated potatoes. oo |