The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-05-16
GOOD BOOST FOR
U. P. POTATOES
organized Efforts Of Farmers A.
tracts Attention Outside

Farmers of Calumet and vicinity will
meet this afternoon in the Fin
,ish hall on Eighth street for the pur-
nose of organizing district granga.
The initiative in this movement is TAX
an nv the Finnish Anti-Socialist league
and il is in line with other organized
efforts towards farm development IN
the upper peninsula. Prof. Leo. Gels
mar. the county agricultural expert.
Is to be present and will assist in the
organization.
The activity Of these upper peninsula
farm organizations, especially the Up-
per Peninsula Development Bureau,
which under the direction of Col. Mott
has launched n campaign TO improve
the quality of the potatoes grown in
this section. so that Cloverland spuds
may have n distinctive quality which
will command fancy prices in the best
markets, is attracting wide attention
elsewhere. The following editorial
from the Milwaukee Sentinel indicates
i'm a measure what outsiders think of
AIONtTldIu anu bppSefAS'
Wideawake farmers in the Michigan
Upper Peninsula are affording a whole
some object lesson In initiative and
lf-help to a class of fast asleep farm
ers elsewhere.
These alert "Michiganders' are not
only making two potatoes grow where
only one grew before. They are rails
ing what one may call appropriations
Of fabulous size, appearance and quail
ity; potatoes of almost pineapple
prices for the choicest; potatoes COM
petcd for i'm the "fanciest" markets;
potatoes actually sorted, wrapped
like oranges, and neatly boxed in uni
form rows, like Oregon pippins ADD
spitzenberGs.
The peninsula has gone in strong for
potato culture, and the remarkable re-
suits, agricultural and commercial, are
detailed in an interesting and inform
ing article i'm a railroad publication,
by Col. G. w. Mott, who has been
pushing and organizing this develop
ment in the region-why they call it
Glover Land" instead of Potato
Land" we do not know, and state pride
prompts one To add that it has moth
ing on" some of our northern Wiscon-
sin counties in point of natural oppor
tunities for the right kind of farmers.
without meaning to detract from the
credit due TO Col. Motifs hustling and
persuasive initiative i'm this clover and
potato Goshen of his. the striking point
about this systematic and forward
looking development i'm the peninsula
~ the way the farmers collectively
have taktn hold and organized things
|tor themselves under the spur of DEM
oustrated opportunity, both in the
way OF scientific potato culture, and
getting in touch with the best markets
for their product.
once started, they have gone ahead
under their own steam" as it were.
They are running and developing their
own business under their own cooper
alive marketing system, and got re-
suits without loading the state with
a wise-acre market commission" run
on the wild theory that the averaSe
farmer is natural duffer and fathead
i'm his own business, who requires a
political board of guardians at high
salaries to look after him when he sells
his stuff Whereas we doubt If even
COL Mott, with all his experience, could
get the better of the average farmer in
a truck deal.