Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-31
NEW POTATOES IN WINTER.
An Interesting Discovery of a Wis
consin Mar.
milwaukee wisconsin,

milwaukee wisconsin,
Genuine new potatoes, fresh from the
soil. as in July or August. will doubtless
be considered a remarkable delicacy In
midwinter. Yet just such potatoes are
now on the market in Milwaukee, and are
meeting with a ready sale, although the
novelty Of new winter potatoes is one OF
the very latest things known among pro-
duce commission men here.
IF you want 10 inspect really new po-
tatoes, drop in and see us" was the re-
quest which foated into the Wisconsin
Office yesterday over the telephone-Wlre
from a well-knOWn commission house on
lower Broadway. Taking the sender OF
this message at his word the potato edi-
tor Of this great family journal was sent
to investigate He did so, and found seYe-
raj barrels of new potatoes OF the f-aIly
Rose variety, with every appear ahce Ot
being fresh from their native soil. That
they were as youthful as they looked was
soon demonstrated, and the assurance OF
the commission man that the visitor couid
have all the new Murphies he might want
at the rate OF 50 per bushel rather stag
gered the potato editor, who mas long
been accustomed to meeting. interviewing,
and writing up freaks IN the potato 1aInl-
'~ly.
There they were. a large supply OF
fresh, young potatoes, tender and new IN
every sense, on the last day or the year,
when "old" potatoes are usually found 10
be somewhat decrepit and insipid from
| age and the general wear ana , tear slhee
pOtato-digging time in the fall. Those VINO
had partaken of the novelty potatoes pro-
nounce them just as delicious as any July
Inquiry brought out the fact thai these
new potatoes are now being produced by
means, il is said Of some secret process
by Frank Dalaall, an extensive potato
| grower at Genesee, Wis, where he mas
! farm of 100 acres. on this farm IS a
large building, which no one but Dalze!l
himself enters. and here, It Is said, no IS
now producing the early summer potato
In all its glory. He has made the MIL
waukee commission firm OF Thomas q
Shaus his agents for Wisconsin, ana they
positively state that they are daily In
Ieceipt OF sufficient quantity or these
new potatoes 10 supply an average mar
ket for such a vegetable novelty in MO
winter They are also assured by the
grower Mr.. Dalzell, that by another win
ter he expects to be able TO supply the en-
tire Milwaukee market with the winter
grown article his Intention being TO put
genuine new potatoes on the market mere
months before the southern growers can
have any of their very earliest potatoes
ready for the North. which Is during the
latter part of February or in March.
First he guarantees 10 furnish fresh, new
potatoes during any and every winter
month and TO have them In SUFFICIENT
quantities for all by another season.
1t has been suggested that THIS new
potato wonder is the result or the dis
coyery of some process for preserving
new potatoes from early summer until
midwinter in such a manner as TO Keep
them absolutely fresh, plump, and new
in every sense. But this is declared TO
be an erroneous idea, and, on the con-
trary, Mr.. Dalzelrs most intimate friends
Insist that he produces the potatoes IN
the natural way. without dollhouse aid
or other artificial means, except that the
secret process, discovered by himself.
is used in their growth and protection
from frost. IL is claimed, also, that he
can grow new potatoes in large quant-
ties with the ground covered with snow
and things f~Jzen up generally. just as
easily as at the present time. when the
weather has been much milder than the
season calls for. Whatever is the secret
of this new move 1t is quite certain that
new or "early' potatoes are now on
the market in Milwaukee. and that they
| are delicious and In every way as edible
az those taken from the average garden,
| when the robins and the early summer
zephyrs are singing carols 10 contented
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