Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-08-18
GRUBB VISITS
LONDON FARMERS
SEEKING INFORMATION As TO
METHODS or PRODUCING
BIGGER YIELDS
Tell Englishmen How to Cook and
serve This Great Food Which Has
Made Him Famous in the United
States.

e. II. Grubb, the Colorado Potato
King. is in England and Scot
land studying farming methods, par
ticularly that which concern potato
growing.
The London Daily Graphic in a re-
cent edition gives the following in
terview with Mr. Grub:
1t was the late Dean Hole, was it
not. who sang of beauty in the rad
ish, though 1t lives below in gloom.
For its leaves are gay and gladish'
though its heart is in a tomb. Sure
w the Dean would have delighted in
Mr.. Eugene II Grubb who is now Wis
iting the United Kingdom and Eu-
rope on studying potato culture on
the behalf of the department of ag-
riculture of the United States Mr..
Grub is devoted to potatoes. He IS
a big expert. An American with his
wife and daughter walked into
Strand restaurant of blameless rep
ute a few days ago. Delicious stew
and Joint. they said. but the pota-
toes The Puritan father was
shocked A Strand chef acknow-
lodged afterwards TO having learnt
more about potatoes i'm ten minutes
that afternoon than i'm all his life
before Mr. Eugene II. Grubb Of
Carhcndale. Colorado taught him.
"You throw away the most edible
and valuable portion Mr. Grubb
told a Daily Graphic representative
who talked with him at Hardill's
hotel. 1.-THE outside layer, about a
quarter of an inch under the skin.
Your people pare that off. If peo-
pie were properly educated to the
vaule Of potatoes as delicacy. the
consumption of the world would be-
doubled. he English people do not
know the luxury of the baked po-
tato Ii is one of the favorite dishes
ma America Your methods of serv-
ing potafoes are crude, primativc.
Then why. it may be asked, is MIR.
Grubb here to learn? Simply be-
cause America wants to know more
about the growing and marketing
(as distinct from the eating) of po-
tatoes. He is visiting all the fairs
and great farms, He has been to
Lord Redesdale's and Sir Walter
. Gilbey's he is going to Lord Roth
y child's and to Lord Rosetery's Dali
menv station His mission means a
study of the whole agricultural i'm
, dustry on this side of the Atlantic
eve grow I'm round figures 500 mil
lion bushels annually; we need al
least $50 million bushels
you grow i'm the United King
n dom as many as we do in the whole
= United States. and your yields are q.
!, three to one per acre. fhe state o.
N Idaho alone could produce all tina
/ the whole United States now pro
T. duces-if the industry were develop
III ed to it's maximum
r. Not only our extravaganza in 20
Sc tatoes strikes Mr.. Grubb. Our mar
e. ket methods he says, would breal
,r an American farmers heart.
M buv i'm London a basket of straw
~ berries. 4 - or 8 pounds. lOd The
So ere put up i'm a basket with a Gil
ne handle costing Sd. I'm America SIS
Of would put them in pacages costin
less than half penny. I saw potatoe
from Canary and Jersey arrivin
~ i'm crates of seventeen pounds tar
i'm eighty-five pounds packas
II made of lumber double the thicl
~ ness necessary. I don't know
course. about your social condition
You may do that sort of thing i'm o
~ der to employ the great surplus
cheap labor you have here Aga
YOU use tine OlU AUiA0 ADA III h-AA
products to markets. Some of the
~ are at least seven feet high. II cos
w money to lift hundred weight Sc
nU en- feet. In America we have lC
= bodied trucks and low wheeled ca
riages. On the average your En
lish farmer raised all his GRO
double the height. to market OF sta
than the American farmer does. T
cause we use machines more a
hands less. farming in America
not restricted to people of stro
physique. Some of our most succe
full farmers and stock people now &
women.
"YOur farms are more beautiful
continued Mr.. Grubb; your ia
life has more comforts The artis
instinct is strong in England. Nc
agriculturists is a factor in the
cial system Your farmer wears
silk hat and carried a cane. dres
for dinner. keeps a coachman
the English tenant-farmer would
looked down upon in America. VIII
man who does not own his Ia
is an object of criticism. Your s
cessful farms are over-capitaliz'
ours are under capitalized. That
the greatest drawback to Ameri
farming