AUTHORS' PREFACE 



It is with the hope that a compilation of in- 

 formation in regard to one of the world's greatest 

 food plants — the potato — will be of service to 

 the increasing thousands of people now interested 

 and becoming interested in practical, scientific 

 agriculture, that this work is published. 



Never before in the history of the world has 

 the production of human food received as great 

 attention as at the present time. Population is 

 increasing with alarming rapidity, while the supply 

 of land on which it is possible to grow food is 

 limited. The one solution of the problem is the 

 production of more and better food on every acre 

 of land on which crops are grown. 



The working out of this problem calls for broad, 

 liberal education, not the least factor of which is 

 to benefit by the experience of others. This hajs 

 been made a keynote in this work, and while 

 growers may not see fit to adopt wholly some of 

 the methods described, it is believed that they 

 will find the suggestions helpful. 



The senior author has grown a large acreage of 

 potatoes at Mt. Sopris Farm for years, and has 

 made a careful study of the practical side of potato 

 growing all over the world. The discussion of 

 problems, and the suggestions made, are from the 

 standpoint of the practical grower. 



E. H. Grubb. 

 W. S. Guilford. 

 March, 1912. 



