POTATO DEVELOPMENT WORK IN WISCONSIN. 



POTATO DEVELOPMENT WORK AT STARKS, 

 ONEIDA COUNTY, WIS. 



W. B. ANGELO, Stevens Point, Wis. 



Mr. Angelo furnished the following article at the request of The 

 Wisconsin Potato Growers Association. Starks, Wis., is located ten 

 miles east of Rhinelander on the Soo Line Railroad. 



The plans of the Starks Company probably involve the most ex- 

 tensive plan of development ever undertaken with the potato crop in 

 the United States. 



In a letter to the secretary, Mr. Angelo states that including opera- 

 tions in Oneida and Marinette counties, the company will in 1914 raise 

 750 acres of potatoes; between 400-500 acres of oats in addition to an 

 extensive acreage of clover. The Company also plans to clear and 

 break one thousand acres of land in 1914. 



The L. Starks Co., of Chi- 

 cago, Illinois, wholesalers in 

 potatoes, having unlimited 

 faith in. the potato producing 

 qualities of the soil in North- 

 ern Wisconsin, have acquired 

 approximately twenty-five 

 thousand acres of land in that 

 section for the express pur- 

 pose of developing the greater 

 part of the same into agricul- 

 tural lands for the raising of 

 potatoes, grain and clover un- 

 der the three year rotation 

 plan. This company clears 

 the land of brush and stumps 

 and thoroughly plows, discs 

 and pulverizes the same by 

 the aid of the latest im- 

 proved machinery including 



MR. L. STARKS. 

 President, L. Starks Co., Chicago. 



