POTATO DEVELOPMENT WORK IN WISCONSIN. 



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ciations, potato buyers and shippers. Many local editors in cen- 

 tral Wisconsin are rendering efficient service in this work. 



There are approximately 90,000 acres devoted to commercial 

 potato growing in central Wisconsin. Although this is the most 

 important crop industry of the section, the reader should under- 

 stand that diversified and dairy farming is under active develop- 

 ment. 



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THE TOUR OF THE "POTATO SPECIAL" THROUGH CENTRAL WISCON- 

 SIN, OVER THE NORTH WESTERN LINE, APRIL 18-25, 1014. 



The Organization of Potato Improvement Work is now in Active Operation 



in this Section. 



All the varying grades of fertile sandy loam and clay loam 

 soils can be found in the so called ' ' Central Potato Belt. ' ' A 

 large number of fine stock farms are located in this section. 

 These statements arc made in correction of an opinion which 

 sometimes becomes current, that the central potato section of 

 Wisconsin is of a uniform light sandy type which has become de- 

 pleted by constant cropping. This is not a fact. 



It is a fact that in some sections a large amount of stock is 

 raised on worn out soils, that coarse varieties have been intro- 

 duced ; that good and inferior stock often is mixed under present 

 conditions of sorting and grading. This condition would natur- 



