Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-20
WARE Of foreign
SEED POTATOES
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
WILSON SENDS WARNING TO
FARMERS.
NOT ADAPTED TO our SOILS
AND CONTAIN MANY DISEASES
Danger Of Disease Alone Sufficient
Reason For Refusing to Plant Thorn
-Aprieultural Department. Also En-.
gagged in Work Of Promoting Good
Roads in South.
1special Correspondence.1

Washington. March 20.-Secretary OF
Agriculture Wilson is sending out
warnings to the farmers and potato
growers OF the country to beware Of
foreign potatoes for use as seed. He
takes the position that altho home
grown seed potatoes are selling at high
prices, foreign grown potatoes should
not be substituted for them.
That potato growers may understand
the dangers involved thru use Of for
eign potatoes Secretary Wilson has
given out this notice:
Danger Of Importing Dissass.
Europe has several potato diseases
not now known to exist in this coun-
try. which, If introduced. might be the
means of greatly reducing our annual
yield OF potatoes. Should these diseases
become prevalent turnout the United
States, the cost Of producing future
crops might be very greatly increased.
do not therefore, under any cir
cumstances. use foreign grown pota-
tees for seed either at the north or at
the south.s The sorts which are coming
TO this country at the present time are
late sorts which are not adapted to
planting in the south where early po-
tatoes are the main crop, neither are
they ADAPTED to planting at the north.
for they will not produce satisfactory
YIELD.
They are not adapted to our soils
or to our climate and will not yield
profitable crops; but the danger of in
PRODUCING diseases not now present is
them
Promoting Good Roads.
No branch of the department of agri-
culture is more active at present than
the office Of public roads, which IS
working in behalf Of good. roads the
country over. An indication Of this is
seen In q recent announcement given
out by the office Of public roads as
to the sending Of an unusual expedi-
ton over the Frisco System. The no
tice says:
"On March Is. 1912, a unique train
will depart from Brownsville. Texas,
for d four months trip over the Frisco
system. This will be the good roads
special 10 be operated by the Frisco
Railway Company, the office of public
roads OF the United States department
ISOLATION for Highway Improvement. 1t
will be a train of four cars, specially
equipped, and will carry lecturers and
an unusual exhibit. This exhibi; con-
sists OF carefully prepared models Of
all types IF road construction from
sand. clay and gravel to bituininous
nacadam. ard of reinforced concrete
bridges and cu!verts. completed and
under. construction. II also contains
miniature models Of rold machinery
and a ROCK quarry, which are operateG
by electricity. Each N odel il the ca.
is properly labelel so that the objec;
lcsson il: itself AFFORDS a considerab;
read education. The equipment of this
train even surpasses that of the four
similar good roads trains recently OF
Grated over other railway systems i:
the United States.
This t-eir. win cover about 1900
miles in the states of Texas, Louisiana
Missouri. kansas. Arkansas, Oklahoma.
Mississippi and Alabama. A complete
schedule Of stops mas been prepared
which proyi6es opportunity for NOR
thar three hundred lectures upon good
1oa ds topics. These lectures will be
given upon those road subjects which
are most intimately connected with the
locality Visited