The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-18

+. Wing. the greatest expert on alfalfa
and soils In America.
The lecture. which is free TO every
one, is TO he the first of about 100 that
win be delivered free throughout Utah
and Idaho during the next month along
the main line and important branches of
the Oregon Short Line by a dozen lead
ing experts on apple and potato growing
and on the proper care and treatment OF
the soil. In addition to the names al
ready published in The Tribune who will
be on the special train that leaves this
city january 20 have been added those
OF Professor Merrill and Professor Ball
of the Utah State Agricultural college,
and ] Edward Taylor of the State Board
of Horticulture.
Colorado Resorts Utah Potatoes.
Idaho and Utah can grow not only
more potatoes but better potatoes II
proper attention is given TO the seed.
cultivating. digging, sorting and storing.
and especially 10 the sorting said Mr..
Grubb yesterday. Colorado ships in car
after carload of Idaho potatoes. unloads
and resorts them. then reloads and ships
them as Colorado potatoes, getting much
higher prices for the same potatoes than
does the Idaho man who grew them be-
cause the Colorado man knows how TO
sort and market potatoes and the Utah
and Idaho men do not.
This we are going TO try to teach
on this special potato and orchard heat
any man in Utah and Idaho today com
plains that he Is not making money
raising potatoes it is solely his own
fault. Colorado men can take his po-
tatoes and make plenty OF money out
of them, so why should not Idaho and
Utah men make that extra money? We
are going to show them how to do IT,
Potatoes form one-fifth OF all the hu-
man food. Out Of every five mouthfuls
that go down the human throat one is
of potato, 10 put the matter in another
way. The potato crop of Europe is
greater each year than the entire wheat
crop or the world, Germany alone raises
1000 100000 bushels of potatoes yearly
six times as much as does the whole
only twice the size OF Colorado
''Great Britain. the tight little isle
raises as much as does the United states
cent Of her home consumption Utah
having some OF the finest potato land
In. the world. finer than anything in Ger
many or England. should hang her head
over this fact. Out OF every ten pota-
toes eaten in this state four have 10 be
SHIPPED In That Is record to be
year and kept good for every year TO
come.
Utah Imports Potatoes.
Utah has to ship IN potatoes every
year from as far away as Bermuda Flor
ida Texas Kansas and even Colifornj,
some years send potatoes to Utah. In
September and November Utah ships her
potatoes TO Texas and to Colorado where
inc Colorado man resorts them and then
sells them, often right back TO Utah at a
higher price after paying freight both
ways.
"The average consumption OF potatoes
III America, when they can be had is
four and one-half bushels per inhabitant
But potatoes cannot always be bought
In the United States. where the finest
potat9es can be grown. so we as ma
great deal OF our national hoastine IS nm
true. and we Go not feed the world not
With .oyercrowded Europe shipping us
such things as potatoes.
Between 2S5.000 900 and 290. 900 600
bushels were raised In the United states
ioi IN 1907 and only 2Go. 100000 In 1908 In
bushels Of potatoes from abroad. These
potatoes cost New York 81 per bushol OF
which dollar New York paid II cents
i0r freight. sacks, duty and brokerage.
across the Atlantic. Utah can get that
S6.OOO,OO0 a year on potatoes alone out
of one American city II Utah wants IL
and will learn how TO raise and pack
potatoes properly.
just sack of potatoes. all mixed in
together. will not do. The Colorado man
Utah potatoes and no one can blame him
FOR doing so. seeing that the Utah man
does nothing.
There are only seven states in America
Maine. Michigan. Wisconsin, Minnesota
Colorado Oregon and Idaho that raise
surplus Of potatoes; Utah is not in
tniS !lSl, ana IL Is Utah'S own fault
Some years California gets In the list,
but not always Utah never does. vet
the finest potato land In the United
States is right on the western slopes OF
Colorado and Idaho. with Utah n near
second. The mountain valleys on tho
Pacific slope Of the Rockies at an eleya-
ton of from 1000 to 1000 feet produce
the finest potatoes In the world. Po
tatoes need altitude. Utah can raise her
yearly income many millions II she wants
TO. and nN through the humble potato"