Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-02 | Page 25 | 'Spud Birthday' to be Observed

'SPUD BIRTHDAY' I TO BEOBSEHVED CHICAGO. Feb 2. The tercen-1 tenary of the planting of the first potato po-tato In the United States will be next' I n , ember, according to Dr Behtrold Laufer, curator of anthropology , of the ; Field museum here. 'The potato entered this country.'! Dr. I-aufer said, in an address before the American Association for the Advancement Ad-vancement of Science, "not as surmised, sur-mised, by Ide Candolle, through e.n alii al-ii gi bdnd of Spanish adventurers, but in a perfectly respectable manner, from Bermuda where It had been introduced intro-duced some years previously from England; It is .i prank of fortune that the potato, originally a denizen of Club . and Pern, appears as a naturalized Englishman In the United States The potato had arrived In England about 1 S 8 or a little lataer. .For a long lime the belief was cn-ti cn-ti rtalned by botanists that the open-nuk, open-nuk, described among the wild roots of Virginia by Thomas Harlot in 15S8, was to re present our potato. This speculation spec-ulation Is erroneous. Data from the History of tlm Bermudas now makes it perfectly clear that the potato was one of the plants which 'at that time and until then (that Is 1021) Virginia had not." ' The history cf the Bermudas- reports re-ports that in 1613 the good ship IClizo-betfl IClizo-betfl brought potatoes irom England ., i Bermuda. The history further states that on the second of December, 10-1 H Cuptai:iXalhaniel Butler, governor of H the Bermudas, sent from St. Georges. In tho Sommer Island?, to the gover- ubbbbbbI nor of Virginia (Francis Wyatt) two large cedar chests wherein were fitted H all kinds and sorts of the country H plants and fruits as Virginia at thSt H time and until then, had not, as flgg-. H pomegi-hOtes. oranges, lemons, plan- H tones, sugar canes, potatoe, and casa- ;H da roots, papes. (papaya), red pepper, H the prltle pears Cpriekly pear) and H I "In the following year, a Virginian H bark took from tho Bermudas twenty H thousand weight of potatoes at the H least The fact that potatoes were actually planted in Virginia at the very moment of the first introduction Is confirmed In letters from Virginia. H iti 142 1 and published bv Turchas. '.'The gifts of the New World along H the line of cultivated plants were all of a democratic character and made a world-wide appeal tobacco conquer-1 conquer-1 ed all peoples of the globe without dts-,11m dts-,11m don. and 1 know of mil'.' a slnxle tribe which does not practice smoking H j the poor Islanders pf Hotel Tobug, I Tobacco is more universally consum- H ed than any other narcotic, has pro- if . foundly influenced the enonomy of most nations and signally affected spe- clal customs and promoted sociability In a spirit of gratitude. Chinese and Japanese have bestowed on to hacco, H the name herb of amiability' lalkinsr H tsao), as they explain, on account of H the affectionate feelings entertained toward one another by all classes of ; mankind since its use has become gen- J ;.