The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-04-22
GARRETT SHOULD RAISE
SEED POTATOES FOR STATE
Suggestions Made by The Republican
Months Ago FaVorabiY Considered.

The farmers of Garrett county will
be interested in the following letter re-
ceived by R. E. Sliger, President of the
Garrett County Fair Association, from
acting Dean W. T. l.. Taliaferro, Of the
Maryland Agricultural College, dated
April 8, 1915:
Your letter received and box contain
ing the potatoes to our potato expert
and haye him write you as to what they
are. After my knowledge of Garrett
County's potato crop was so forcibly
impressed upon me at your fair last
fall, have referred them to you for
further information and hope that some
of them have been purchasers.
The Republican tor many months has
urged the farmers of Garrett county to
enter this profitable field of raising seed
potatoes for the large planters of the
Eastern shore and Southern Maryland,
as we'll as the State of Virginia.
By practical and thorough test at
the Agricultural college, and by three
or more farmers of this county, it was
proven beyond doubt and contradiction
that the Irish Cobber and Green Noun
tain potatoes raised in Garrett county
were in every respect equal to the
famous seed potatoes of the same name
produced in Maine and that they were
better adapted to the use of potato
growers in Maryland than the Name
variety.
Because OF its faith in Garrett county,
and wishing for the greatest prosperity
of the county, The Republican has from
time to time called the attention of its
readers to this subject.
1t is glad to see the interest the
Garrett County Board of Trade has
taken on this subject and the effort the
Board is making to get our farmers all
over the county to go into this business.
The special premium it offers should at
tract general attention.
Doubtless the Agricultural Associa-
ton will give special attention to the
question and offer liberal premium for
the best exhibit of these two kinds of
potatoes at the fair next fall, Let the
slogan be: Garrett county seed
potatoes the best for the Southern
planter"
The Republican would also like to see
special effort made in the mountain
section of the county especially fer a
revival of the sheep industry. The day
was when Garrett county mountain
mutton was famous in MANY markets
and in several famous eating houses of
the land.
The Republican is and always has
been and will continue to be a Booster
for Garrett county-every nook and
corner Of the county. We are trying
to print paper for the people, of the
people and with the people, and our in
creasing subscription list shows that we
are succeeding.
This is the time for the progressive
farmer, the business man and every
well wlsher of Garrett county.
The work seems to be progressing
enthusiastically and the directors of the
Board of Trade are working out plans
for the best interests of the county.
This is the time to get together and
unitedly labor to accomplish this end
When in Oakland call at the Boards
headquarters and cheer them on in
their work.
Mistakes will happen in the best
families Type make US say strange
things sometimes. Last week, an
oversight in proof reading made me
say, BE Booser." when the copy
said. Be Booster. Some difference.
Don't Booze, but do be a Booster.
l.. A. RUDISILL, Secretary.