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POTATO DEVELOPMENT WORK IN WISCONSIN. 



SIGNIFICANCE OF PURE BRED SEED WORK 

 IN WISCONSIN. 



By Dean II. L. Russell, Wisconsin College of Agriculture. 



The time is not far distant when inspection and certification of 

 seed stock will be as prevalent and as popular as is the tubercu- 

 lin test for tuberculosis in 

 cattle among progressive 

 dairymen. The application 

 of the community center idea 

 to growing potatoes, adher- 

 ence to ideals with reference 

 to quality of the product, and 

 inspection and certification of 

 the purity of the product as 

 to type and freedom from dis- 

 ease, arc bound to bring in 

 time results which arc com- 

 mensurate in value to those 

 which have been secured by 

 the development of commu- 

 nity ideals in dairying. 



The work of the Wisconsin 

 Experiment Association in 

 the production and dissemi- 

 nation of pure bred seed 

 grains which have been devel- 

 oped on the experimental 

 farms at Madison and on the branch stations has accomplished 

 wonders in the state. It has brought money, as wclF as renown, 

 and the application of these same principles can without ques- 

 tion be applied to potato culture. With this crop, possibly more 

 than with cereal grains, the marketing product is most impor- 



DEAN H. L. RUSSELL. 



Wisconsin College of Agriculture 

 University of Wisconsin. 



