The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-12
CLOVERLAND To
Be. ADVERTISED
Spuds Will Be Exhibited at Men
ominee Potato Congress

Cloverland will be thoroughly adj
vortised this fall when the first annual
potato congress will be staged at Me-
nominee under the auspices OF the
,fcncminee Commercial club on Oc-
tober 2l-23, inclusive. "Spuds" grown
IN cleveland will be on exhibition and
considerable advertising for the dis
trict is predicted.
have pledged $4,000 for cash prizes
and i'm addition to this, individual
prizcs will be offered by upper penin-
suIa banks for the best exhibit of po-
tatocs from individual counties that
will bring the total cash prizes up
to $1,000.
Entry in this contest will be abso-
mtely free, there being no restrictions
except that the potatoes must be
crown i'm Cloverland. The committee
having this work in charge will pay
the transportation charges on all po-
tatoes entered.
In order to make entry in this con-
test all the farmer has to do is to
write George u. Chambers, secretary
Of the Menominee Commercial club,
for entry blanks which he will fill in
ana mail to the secretary and then
send his samples OF potatoes to the
Ncnominee Commercial club, c. O.
D. All samples must be bushels, pack
ed i'm standard bushel basket. The
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the local committee after the exhibit
ton. This is done on account of the
expense OF returning the potatoes and
the fact that the best potatoes of the
exhibit will be sent 10 represent Glow
erland at the National Potato con-
qress 10 be held at Grand Rapids in
December.
This move Is follow-up Of the
general advertising that has been Civ
en- Cloverland this year as a potato
center. Potato buyers will be present
al this congress from all the big rail-
roads and from the big hotels in Mil
waukce and Chicago and other large
countries The seed buyers will al
so be on the ground thus creating for
the farmer a real market at no cost.
II will establish Cloverland as a
great potato center and will definitely
establish the potato market. 1t will
further bring together the best pota-
toes Of Cloverland and thus give Glow
erand the opportunity of putting to-
gcther an exhibit that will have a
chance of winning the sweep-stake
prize at Grand Rapids during the Ma
tioual Potato Congress If an exhi-
bit can be gotten together that is cred
liable to Cleveland il means that we
win have a good chance of winning at
Grand Rapids and if we do win, 1t
means that the reputation of Clover
land as a potato center is established
for all time to come. and that the in
diyidual farmer will find that Clover
land potatoes will bring a premium
ON the open market.
In all, approximately sixty cash
prizes will be given, ranging from $500
in gold to $4,000 in gold, giving n
large number of farmers an opportun-
ity TO participate in the prize money
and making them large enough so that
every farmer can afford to enter. No
transportation charges, no entry fees,
nothing except the bushel of potatoes
and a thousand dollars i'm gold to the
winners.
Farmers who are interested in sell
ign their potatoes are asked i'm MAX
ing out their entry blank to be sure
and report the kind and amount OF
potatoes for sale and the price they
expect to get for them. This Informal
ton will then be placed in the hands
of the buyers.
w a. Lore and sons William and