378 THE POTATO 



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imported twelve different varieties of these fine 

 Scotch bred potatoes, but have found only two 

 varieties that proved adaptable to the Roaring 

 Fork district. Of these the Dalmeny Beauty has 

 proved very promising. It is a white fleshed, 

 medium to large potato, oval to oblong, shallow 

 eyed, with a clean and attractive skin. The vines 

 grow from three to five feet high, and it is one of 

 the heaviest yielders known. One stalk in the 

 Carbondale district produced twenty-five tubers 

 weighing eleven and one half pounds. Four 

 acres in the same section produced 307 sacks per 

 acre, 116 pounds to the sack. It is a strong feeder 

 and needs rich soil. 



Challenge, — This is another Scotch variety im- 

 ported from Dalmeny Farm. It is a medium late 

 variety of high quality. It is white fleshed and 

 mealy. The skin is smooth and white. The 

 tubers are oblong, medium to large, with square 

 shoulders. A good cropper. This year one plat 

 of ten acres at Carbondale yielded 277 sacks per 

 acre, 116 pounds to the sack. It is a very high 

 quality potato, and those grown in Carbondale 

 have been used for the past four years on the 

 Vanderbilt system dining cars. 



In my opinion the Perfect Peachblow, as de- 

 veloped in the Carbondale district of Colorado, 

 is about as near the ideal potato as has yet been 

 grown. One diflficulty most potato growers have 

 had to contend with in other sections is the fact 

 that the various varieties "run out" in two or three 

 years, or, in other words, deteriorate in quality. 

 The Perfect Peachblow is an exception. Notwith- 

 standing the years of injudicious methods in seed 

 selection and cultivation, the variety is as vigor- 

 ous and healthy as ever and is steadily improving. 



