Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-12-12
A potato PATROL" SPEAKS
lie Utah Brand Il SIN Good, In
hluush anyway, Both 10
Yield and llaiur.

KANoII, Utah, Dec. o.--Asn "po.
lato patriot" /, IA common with my
neighboTs, was surprised and some.
what Inundated to learn Of "Alur.
ply" retreat In Utah. We have
boosted thst no could conquer the
world. And now We are siicucri by
your article o, Dec. 1t, informing "
that We nre scarcely IN the Gght ut
all. The statement tha, Utah has "a
shortage 10 astonishing news Ia these
parts, and tn probability Il q Utah
"phttlu" hnving 10 eat n Scotch spud
here ut mtalts' headquarters 10 humili.
atinF.
A few years ago / was temporarily
located on tho "rynU SIDE" aud ny
friend Peter REID, OF Jour city, o.
convince scupuc that nr could not
cat more than ono JlAh potato 40 a
meal, frut home uud hlu n humber
u good Utah specimens forwarded.
when they were uupaCfeI, uud the
smiler at "Naukce yarn" saw lOta.
tees that weighed from two 90 four
pounds, "Golrdic's" llp was Knocked
awry, and he acknowledged our tu.
rremnoy. Aud nov the Idea NJ my
friends IN Salt Lake CITY having 90
eat one Of those ilille wateT-HOIduued
pebbles that shoemaker could wax a
thresd with, suggests Indigestion and
Disgrace.
My "patrlo,lsmD IL stoaming hot,
and rlso 10 sny chat 30 Tor as / am
Informed southern Utah never hal a
more prolific crop OF excellent potatoes
than this year. We have hitherto lot
the more northern couutita do the talk
Ing about quantity and qualify Of
everything, but when they place us IN
company with Af.zlna, Nebraska aud
bllzl fd.heRteu Kansas ns tuber gtow-
ere, fOfhearanco h exhausted anu we
cay, stand aside and let us come 10 the
rescue with four huudiol (ilO) bushels
20 the acre flyut here ON my farm IN
| Knuofh. My s1u-in'lswi John s.
Roberts, was the fafmer-his ilut
years experience In that line VI farm
Ing, an Intelligent aud ca,olul cAlcu'
lntor, who measured the pliaioFe him
selI / tried 10 make II "a few bushels
less, but he insisted that We grew
every pound OF thAt amount upon an
acre and An eighth Oi land. IL was
new land, Of a light sandy loan. Tho
pota,opa were the "Tod willarl," and
an that hays tested thom pronounce
them OF u very superior flavor
/ have heard OF others Of my neigh.
bors' crops going over three hundred
bushels to the acre, and We wyIo not
intending 10 raise a broczs nh1u. Il.
| But when Utah'u iavoitd spud h role'
gated 10 the let Of tTHmpF, We want 10
be heard, seen, aud eaten u needs be,
70 mnin,Riu ~ hon0ra and attest ils
bounleJus r.sponse TO the skiliul toll
Of the husbAuuman.
| Your article VI tho 2nl, "Nlnier
| WORK Tor FarmeTsn isan excellent It.
minder that we ought 70 get mp aud
! dust, II We desire % be- tuCCessiul.
Really many Of us are too much given
TO contemplation, We white cut
plans OF what We are going 10 do la
the spriug. ana Vince little when
you toll w to "chnp out the manure la
large pieces ana haul u on the lAud. %
We were thinking OF sitting around
and eating ull tie potatoes anu pork
we could, because tne market was W.
| We heard Of one man hauling potatoes
fourteen miles anu trailing thum at 40
couts a bushel Tor whisky. lie was
not a KRnosh mau-and no doubt
wanted the whisky very bad.
We hops the NEWS Will give us more
farming plain talR. We want an anti.
lote Tor politics, and regard our old
Friend as the Territorial balance wheel
"a all matters for the general g0Ol Vi
the community.
Respectfully,
A, BIRD.