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Show Potato Growers Want Pit And Potato Grader Twent-four enthusiastic potato growers met Friday night, January Janu-ary 29 in connection with the Spring City Parent-Teachers association, as-sociation, to discuss the advisability advisabil-ity of installing a large potato cellar and grading plant on the railroad near Spring City. A. E. Darley, instructor of agriculture ag-riculture at North Sanpete hign School, in charge of the class, said that the greatest need, of agriculture agricul-ture in this section is a crop that will bring more money per acre even though it may require more labor. High yields of hay or grain do net net the farmer much after paying interest on the value of our best land and water, plus thj taxes and other necessary expenses. expens-es. Potatoes properly handled should bring several times as much mcney pr acre net to the farmer a. hay or any of the grain crops. Leslie Kidman of Gunnison, representing the Utah Fruit and Vegetable Growers Cooperative Association told how the new cellar cel-lar was built at Gunnison and said that, through the Cooperative As-soiaticn, As-soiaticn, Federal Farm Board money may be obtained at not to exceed 3 percent interest. He said that a cellar large enough to hold 50 car loads of potatoes could be conducted at a cost of $2,000.00 cr less, more than half of which could be in labor by the growers themselves. Over a five year period per-iod the plant would pay for itself from the potatoes passing through it. The better prices obtained because be-cause of proper grading would soon pay for the plant. To make such a proposition feasible it is necessary to have 150 acres of potatoes. The Spring City Potato Growers Grow-ers Local were given the respon-were respon-were hise; the judges, the faculty, several larger potato growers who were not present and another meeting is set for Wednesday n'ght, February 3. at which more ciefenite action will be taken. |