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Show POTATO OUTPUT i lOOflJpADS Farm Bureau Conducts Survey Sur-vey of Spuds Throughout Weber County. A careful survey of iho Ogdon dls- trlct. Including the greater portion of Weber ounty, and that part or Davis county In which Clinton lies. I shows thai the production in potatoes for this district will amount to near-' ly 1000 carloads tills season, accord-1 lng to . P Thomas of tho Weber County Farm Bureau. C. P. Bens and Carl Oisen, potato I committeemen, together with a poial I to committee from Davis county, have made a survey of the situation, It is I stated, and determined the approximate approxim-ate yield throughout the county Roy and Clinton will produce about 330 carloads. At Plain City, about 200 carloads of tubers will be harvested-! harvested-! fas county will yield about 300 car-! j loads of potatoes, while West Weber: i and Wilson will produce about 3n cai-I cai-I loads each I Clinton growers have adopted the I plan Of Stamping the name and ad I j dress of each grower on the sacks o( : potatoes that they sell. Thin pro-I pro-I ceedure has a tendency to boost the I standard of the potatoes and acts as an Incentive to growers In a COmmU-1 nltj It also advertises the produce I from the locality named on the sack.: Larly potatoes In the county W.iJI i be marketed between July lu am; ' August -0 The local farm bureau office has been authorized to make arrange- j monts for a dally wire giving Informa- ; tion on the potato market at Chic igo. and to receive in addition, the price: ; oald dallv at Cloarfiehi Davis County. Plain City and Clinton. This information infor-mation will bo tabulated at the bureau office and forwarded to local bureaus, whore It will he posted on bulletin I boards. oo 1 |