Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-20
Prof. E. H. Grubb Pays a Tribute
To the Humble Spud and
Its Growers.
A SUBJECT WORTH STUDY
Last Nights Lecture the First OF u
Series Throughout Utah and
Idaho Points.

Some interesting facts concerning the
neglected potato were given by Prof. +
III. Grubb. the noted expert. on potato
culture before large and enthusiastic
audience OF agriculturlsts and business
mon at the Commercial club Wednes-
day evening. The lecture was the first
OF a series 20 be delivered by experts at
points on the oregon Short Line in
Utah and Idaho. on the trip of the
"spud special which left this morning
on a tour to last one month.
President Joy III. Johnson OF the Com
mercial club introduced w. FL. Rowe as
chairman OF the meeting. In turn
Chairman Rowe introduced Professor
| Grubb 10 the audience as the Luther
| Burbank of the potato crop"
| Prof. Grubb. said In part:
II may be pardoned. II / say that 1
| have devoted more time, more thought
| ture OF the potato than any other
man. No food used on the table by
| the American people Is so little known
as the plain potato. 1t probably forms
one-fifth OF the food of the American
people. and 1t should be given greater
consideration. There has been no at
tentlon paid To the quality and the ma
vor OF the potato
III the potato crop OF Europe were
spoiled. 1 don't know how many people
would go hungry. The potato crop OF
Europe exceeds all the grain crops
of the United states. The crop in
Germany is two billion bushels an
nualy. In the British Isles there are
more potatoes grown than in the whole
United States For one and a half
centuries live stock breeding on two
continents has been given the benefit
of great minds and meat animals have
been brought to the very highest state
OF perfection. Despite that fact very
little attention has been paid by the
government or state agricultural col
leges to the wonderful food product
known as the potato
WESTERN OBJECT LESSON.
Let me say that the irrigating farm
eIs of the west have shown their
brothers of the east and the world, bet
ter farms. better soil culture than any
where else. Men from the west who
have reclaimed arid lands have been
called to the cast to help restore the
fertility of the soil on abandoned farms.
The west was the first to adopt the
spraying of orchards and the first to in
stall orchard heaters. There are great
er minds In the west to study these
farm problems.
Your agricultural college at Logan
does better soil and extension work
than any other school In the country.
Professor Carlisle told me in Colorado
that the Logan school was doing great
er work than the Colorado school and
more than tho agricultural college In
Wisconsin. He said the extension work
In Utah Is the beSt of any state in the
Union
Three western men have instigated
one OF the greatest works, giving time
ana thought to the development of !
agricultural and 1.-Two stock interest, ] |
D. Hill Is probably the most quoted |
man on these subjects. and w. C
Brown OF the New York Central loss
known, has done wonders In demon |
stratinS and experimenting with farms |
mat have been reclaimed In Pennsyl- |
vania and New York, Mr. D. E. Buriey |
In your state has started a work that
VIII be far reaching
BOOKLETS AVAILABLE.
Intensive farming is never fully |
reallzed until it is shown that there |
can De grown SO many times the tom
mage per acre and that tho fertility of |
the soil can be increased"
Inc government has Just issued a |
booklet on potato culture by Prof
Grubb. which can be had free from the
oinccs OF the Oregon Short Line bv
writing to General Passenger Agent u |
f. Burley -
Lectures are scheduled today for
woods Cross. Pennington, Kaysyille
Cleartield and Ogden. and on Friday ot
Molad. Garland, Collision and Logan
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