The Glenwood post., 1909-12-25

and what great chances we have over
states that have to depend upon rain
to make their crops
When hundreds of people remarked:
"What beautiful apples OH What
beautiful potatoes! Are they real!
Did YOU use Sapolio on them? They
must have been washed. We do nOc
have such potatoes in Chicago; eat
not get them here; our potatoes havr
black spots on them. Are they meally?
Do they cook welll They look good
enough to eat without cooking' Can
we buy them here?' When say.
| these questions were asked us, we re
piled: "Thcy are as good as they look,
but you cannot buy them here a Gar
carloads and not many find their way
to Chicago. You have Michigan and
Wisconsin stock here. 1t costs so mucn
more to transport ours that your mer-
chant will not buy them.
Now, this would not be the state OF
affairs if our farmers would plan
good seed; if they would put up honest
goods in new, clean sacks Right now
they would be getting 81 per hundred
| for every potato they have that is true
| to type and good market size. Thc
higher class hotels and clubs wan
| these potatoes. and the few that we
could grow here would cut no figure in
the market. But you must not grow
a deep-eyed potato like Rose Seeding,
that grow large and rough Statistics
show that the potato constitutes II
per cent of the food supply of the
American family. The food value OF
potato lies in the layer of starcl
next to the skin. 1t can readily b.
seen that smooth. even form of pO
tato, with shallow eyes, can be pared
with much less waste than the rough,
deep eyed sort. Hotels. restaurant,
and dining ears. pare from So to 80
per cent of the potatoes served; there
fore the difference in surface cOnfor-
to them. Sometimes. when the tubers
are very uneven in surface. as much
as 30 per cent is lost in the pairing
machine and as low as > per cent is
/ wasted with the smooth, evenly form
ed ones. The great waste of quantity
is not the most important loss, either,
as the nutritive layer of starch j.
| largely lost, greatly impairing the qua
| lity of the product when served to the
consumer,
! This is an age of specialties, and
| Colorado is state of specialties; and
every farmer should grow a speciality
( for his main crOp,-the one thing tina,
can be best produced in his soil.
| | know this thing can be done, an
Mr. Clough knows it also. He saw
how easy it was to sell high class po-
tatoes. The hotels get as high as %
cents for special baked potatoes. Now
we can grow just what they want il
| Garfield county. They grow potatoes
| in many places but they cannot grow
/ the quality that Garfield county grows.
| We have shown them this bv our ex-
! hibit at Chicago now ii is up TO we
! growers in Garfield county to supply
/ the demand this exhibit has created
and all we need to get the trade is to
plant good stock and pack them hon
| estlv. Nature will do the rest for us.
| w. p. Clough. of Rifle. declared that
| he had learned more at the Chicago
/ show than he would have learned by
staying at home for ten years. He
! found h. said that Colorado apples
were more highly colored, more firm,
and of finer flavor than those grown
! in any other section of the country.
The Garfield county exhibit was small.
he said. but the products shown were
of such fine variety that they attract
ed wide attention. He declared that
the thousands of people who visited
the show had not heard Of Garfield
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