New-York tribune., 1897-01-17
NEW POTATOES ~ WINTER
AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY OF WISCONSIN
MAN.
From The Milwaukee Wisconsin.

From The Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Genuine new potatoes. fresh from the soil, MS IN
July or August. will doubtless be considered re-
markable delicacy midWlnter. Yet just Sucn pc-
tatoes now on the market in MilwauKee' ana
are meeting with ready sale ath9ugn d tnc noy-
city of winter potatoes IS one OF tnc very lat
est things known among produce COMMISSION h'"
III you want to inspect really new potatoes drop
in and us was the request which noated ,ae' hto
phone wire from "A weknown commission house
on lower Broadway. Taking inc senher ot .nis uni
great family iourna was sent out to investigate
He did 80, and found several barrels OF new pota
ance Of being fresh from their native, soil Tha!
they were youthful as they looked was soon
man that the visitor could have all the new MurI
phies he might want at the rate OF - pc, DuSnv inng
been accustomed to meeting. interviewing and writ
ing up freaks I'm :hc potato family ,-.uA .o,r,
There they were, large supply OF iresh' yo1Ie t
potatoes tender and new in every sense, on inc
last day of the year when old potatoes ,a,t ARE
usually found to be somewhat decrepit ana inslpia d
from age and the general wear ana tear slhcs
po,ato-digging G time in the fan. Those who had had
just JUS as delicious as any July product; u ~
Inquiry brought out the fact that these new pa
of some secret process. by Frank Dalzell an ex-
bas far Of % acre at on hs farm is
building which no but Dalzcll himself enters
and here it Is said he Is now producing the carry
summer potato in all its glory. He has made the
Milwaukee commission firm of Thomas q snaus ms
that they daily in receipt or a suHcleht Juan
tity OF these potatoes to supply an aNeIaHr
market for such vegetable novelty IN indWln
| They are also assured by the grower, Mr DaiZeil,
that by another winter he expects 10 pc aDe 10
suppy the entire Milwaukee market with the VIII
ter-grown article his intention being 10 put Eehue
new potatoes the market mere months Delore inc
! southern growers have any OF thelr very
earliest potatoes ready for the North. which IS our
ing the latter part of February or in March FIRST
he guarantees TO furnish fresh new potatoes our
ing any and every winter month. ard TO nave theii
in sufficient quantities for all by another season
II hna hoo Sg ed
is the result the discovery of some process ior
Ircserving n.w potatoes from early summer unti
mdwinter in such manner rs to Keep tnsm apso pt
| lutev fresh. plump and new in every sense fu.
this is declared to be erroneous idea ana, on
/ the contrary Mr.. DalzelFs most intimate Irehu7
insi that he produces the potatoes IN tne hdtula'
vav without hothouse aid or other artinclai means
except that the secret process discovered D! lli-
self Is used I'm their growth and protection from
frost II is claimed. also. that he can grow new
| potatoes in large quantities with the ground coy
| cred with snow and things frozen up Seneraiy.
| inst as easily as at the present time when the
| weather has been much milder tl.an the season
calls for Whatever is the secret OF this new move
are now on the market in Milwaukee. ana that they
are delicious and in every way as edible as tnose
| taken from the average garden when the rooins
and the early summer zephyrs are singing caro'' u
| contented nature.