POTATO DEVELOPMENT WORK IN WISCONSIN. 11 



seed stock selected from high producing hills is also in demand 

 among the farmers but all that I have will be used to pay prom- 

 ised premiums and to get boys' and girls' potato clubs started. 



"I might add that this fall and winter I could have placed 

 several cars of pure potato seed of the Round White Family 

 but I could not find varieties guaranteed pure in sufficient 

 quantities to fill whole cars and so the opportunity to sell seed 

 potatoes at fancy prices fell through. 



"So far as I can do so I shall get the county men to urge 

 whole communities to grow as their leader one variety of the 

 Round White Family and make it the specialty." 



On March 21, the potato growers of Langlade County met at 

 Antigo and organized the- Langlade County Potato Growers Asso- 

 ciation. Langlade County is therefore the first to perfect county 

 organization in Wisconsin. Several other counties in the state will 

 organize before the 1914 planting season. The officers of the Lang- 

 lade County Association are: President, L. W. Pilyes, Bass, Lake; 

 Vice President, W. L. Sparks, Parrish, Secretary, F. Swoboda, Antigo; 

 Treasurer, C. C. Sorrenson, Antigo. 



Referring to the work in Langlade County Mr. Swoboda says, 



"Production of high class potatoes of uniform type for seed 

 and consumption purposes will be the slogan in Langlade 

 County for 1914. The newly organized 

 Langlade County Potato Growers' Associa- 

 tion containing in its membership many of 

 the leading growers of the county will work 

 great good in crystallizing the sentiment 

 of farmers of the county in favor of the bet- 

 ter type of tuber. Boys and girls will be 

 interested in the movement through potato 

 contests conducted under the supervision of 

 the County Superintendent and the County 

 Representative. A revised county fair county Agricultural 

 premium list eliminating unimportant var- 

 icties and giving more substantial premiums 

 to the varieties chosen will foster the movement. 



The co-operation of every farmers' organization in the county 

 is being enlisted in the campaign and before March 1st the 

 Granges had already spoken for over a hundred bushels of a car 

 load or more of seed stock to be brought in and disseminated. 



County growers who participated successfully in the Rhine- 



