The Glenwood post., 1910-10-29
Succu|ent Tubers, Beef and Coffee
Served Barbecue Style to Great
Crowds Last Saturday
LIST OF COMMITTEE AWARDS

| The citizens of Genwood ana sur
rounding towns who journeyed to Car
bondale last Saturday deemed it "A
great treat to be able to look in on the
splendid exhibit of wealth producing
tubers, especially when they realized
that by their presence and their inter
est in the event they were giving en-
couragement to an indutry that is yet
in its infancy, but which is destined
soon to become the great and over
powering industry of western Colorado
1t is but a few years since the farm
ers of the Carbonate district turned
their attention from the long horned
steers and the alfalfa fields to the cul-
ture of the succulent spud and they
mess and advanced in the science of its
production until today Carbonate po-
tatoes are known the world over and
find ready sale at advanced prices
among people who know good article
and want the best that can be produced.
| Time was when the farmers, in the
Carbondale country as we'll as else
where, paraded their potatoes for their
size and freakish Irregularities. But
they were soon made to understand by
buyers and consumers that not NAM
moth proportions. but uniformity Of
| size, smoothness of surface and quality
of texture were the things to be aimed
at in producing a popular and practical
| potato.
With these suggestion before them
the farmers of Carbondale set about
in an intelligent manner to breed po-
tatoes just as they had set out to
breed horses and cattle of certain
type.
All the various disadvantages were
studied, combatted and overcome, the
questions of seed selection, planting,
cultivation, irrigation, harvesting AMI
marketing-all these have engaged
| the intelligent consideration of the Car
bondale farmers for years until today
it is a science with them as it is in but
few places in the United States, while
the ideal climatic conditions and the
splendid irrigation advantages combine
with scientific application to make po-
tato production in this section the lead
| ing and most profitable rural industry
! in Colorado.
Ask any one of dozen prominent
potato growers in the vicinity of Car
bondale to give you story on the po
tato. Pick up a nordinary spud and
engage him in conversation about it.
He can give you its history and pedi-
gree, trace its family tree, or vine, back
a century and tell you all about its
cousins and its uncles and its aunts.
Then he will tell you the good quail
ties of this especial variety and also
recount its weaknesses and tell you
what is being done right in the Car
bondale section to breed the vices out
of that particular potato and make It
more sef-respecting and more admired
by the housewife so that people of dis
eliminating tastes can look it in the
eye without apologizing for its poor
appearance.
And if you don't believe the appear
ance of the ordinary field potato can
be wonderfully improved by careful
seed selection and proper cultivation
you should have been at Carbondale
last Saturday.
The splendid exhibits of potatoes of
various varieties were eye openers as
to the possibilities of that rapidly com
ing country There were lot of exhib-
its such as are grown in many other
places, but the potatoes, the potatoes
well, they were different. They were
the Carbondale kind, and there's a
world of meaning in that statement.
After the hunger of the crowd had
been satisfied with the barbecue of
luscious roast beef, baked potatoes,
bread and butter and coffee the judges
passed upon the merit of the exhibits
and the Post is able, to give list Of
their awards, as follows: