390 THE POTATO 



marketable potatoes. The variety was Dalmeny 

 Challenge. 



Following is the story of how the first prize po- 

 tatoes were grown, as told by the growers: 



"It will be necessary to give a brief account of 

 our previous experience and observations along 

 this line in order to impress upon the farmer the 

 fact that he can do equally as well if he will use his 

 powers of observation and a little study along with 

 his work. 



"We partly owe our success to attending farm- 

 ers' institutes and demonstration trains, and mak- 

 ing a study of the different farmers' bulletins and 

 articles on potato culture by E. H. Grubb and 

 others. We do not mean to infer that we followed 

 any set rules, but whenever we read an article we 

 always compared it with our methods and acted 

 accordingly; so that in reading this, all we expect 

 the farmer to do is to compare it with his con- 

 ditions and methods. We are confident that our 

 record will be broken within a year or two, still we 

 are pleased to be the first to prove it possible on our 

 soils. 



"We came to the Twin Falls tract in the fall of 

 1905 and have raised a few potatoes each year 

 since. Our first experience was with mixed run- 

 out seed, and it kept getting worse each year. We 

 had about decided to quit the potato business when 

 Mr. Grubb shipped in some seed from his farm in 

 Colorado in the spring of 1908. In this car were 

 Red and White Peachblow, Dalmeny Challenge, 

 and Dalmeny Beauty potatoes. The Peachblow 

 had been grown in Colorado for years, while the 

 Challenge and Beauty were imported from Scot- 

 land two years previous by Mr. Grubb. We sold 



