The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-12-02
ALL NEVADA POTA-
TOES NOT BARRED
Office of the President. University of
Nevada, Reno, Nevada, November
2S 1911

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10 the Potato Growers of Nevada:
| went to Sacramento Monday. No
vember 27th, to meet A. j. Cook. the
horticultural commissioner of Califor.
MIA, and ascertain his decision ueon
admitting Nevada potatoes into Cali
fornia. As you know the horticulture;
commissioner Of California has fur
power to place quarantine against po-
tatoes or any other agricultural pro-
ducts. For year or two past reports
have been in circulation about the
prevalence of the Nemotode or eel
worm in Nevada potatoes. The eel
worm, male and female, have their
homes in the soil, and from the soil the
female ooes into the potato, or alfalfa,
or the beet, or the carrot, to lay its
eggs, and in time the eggs are hatched
The eel also infests greenhouse plants,
such as the astor and carnation. They
1--we upon the starehy substances in
these plants and partially DESTROY
their substance. In the beginning il is
difficult to detect the eel worm in the
potato but after a time it is discern
ed by pimpies, tuberculosis. or warts
the potato is in this stage the ravages
ef the eel worm are easily detected.
After full conference with the
horticultural commissioner, he gave
the following decision:
First-The districts that raise DO
tatoes in the state of Nevada where
the eel worm is found are hereby quar-
antined, and no shipments of potatoes
from those districts will be received,
Second-Upon the statement of the
authorities of the University of Neva-
da to the horticultural commissioner Of
California that the University has ex.
amined certain districts and found
that there was no evidence of the eel
worm infestations from those districts
potatoes may be purchased and shipped
into California.
Third-The horticultural commits
sioner decided that all carloads of 20
tatoes either now received or in tran
SIT that are found TO be infected with
the eel worm TO any extent will not be
received and must be returned.
The decision of the horticultural
commissioner is contained in the above
three paragraphs, namely--he has
quarantined every potato district in
Nevada where the eel worm is found
he viii not allow carload Of pota |
toes in which the eel worm is found |
to be shipped into California; but he /
will, on the certificate of the Univer- |
sity authorities that any potato dis. |
trict is free from the eel worm, grant |
permission to the grower of the pota- |
toes in that district to sell his pota- |
toes and ship them into California.
Oh course, however, all such ship /
ments will be subject to rigid in /
spection by the California horticultur-
al commission, and in case eel worms
are found in these shipments the dis |
tiiets from which the potatoes came /
VIII be quarantined.
This is drastic order so far as the /
districts whore the eel worms are
found are concerned, but it is much /
better than quarantining the whole /
state which the horticultural commits /
sioner of California was disposed to
do until he was convinced that such /
an order would work harm to the DO I
tato industry of Nevada where there I
was no eel worm.
The ranchers and farmers of this t
state are face to face with a condition /
which calls for decisive action on their /
part. They must get rid of the Memo
tode or eel worm or give up the rails /
ing and marketing Of a profitable crop
and one for which Nevada has splen- /
did reputation. The Nevada potato is /
one of the best in any market and the
ranebers should see to it that the
good name of the state and the good
name of the Nevada potato are main
tanned.
The University wants to help the
farmer and the raneher, but it can
only do it through the cooperation of
the potato growers Any attempt to
defeat the order of the horticultural
of California will result
in destroying the California market
for the uninfected potatoes of this
state.
The University is sending out two
Of its men as advisers or instructors
to ascertain the condition of the po-
tato crop on each ranch or in each
district. These men are Miles b. Ken
nedy and Ellsworth r. Bennett, who
have no authority, as the University
has no authority, to require the pota-
to growers to answer any questions or
to do anything at all. These men seek
only and the cooperation
of the farmers which will be helpful in
securing market for the potatoes
which are free from the eel worm, and
also to help farmers to take steps to
rid their fields of this pest for all time
We bespeak for them cordial re
,eption and the cooperation of the
potato growers of this state. Remem
Der, no potatoes can be shipped fror
his state until the horticultural con
missioner of California receives q ee
fifcate from the president Of the Ui
yersity that those men have
.e' tar districts and the potatoes
hcse districts ar ethought TO be free
rom the Nemotode or eel worm.
ia the course of few weeks a bull
ei in in regard to the eel worm with
he latest information win be prepared
'y Professor Peter Eranndsen. ZOO
ogist, and Professor Samuel b. Doten,
of the University. This
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