POTATO DEVELOPMENT WORK IN WISCONSIN. 



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table stock. A large number of our growers do not realize that 

 the stock needed for community improvement is now grown 

 within the state. * ** * ^ 



Repeatedly on the tour of the " Potato Special," the above 

 conditions were found. Measures were taken at once to remedy 

 the difficulty. A large amount of excellent seed stock was re- 

 served for 1914 planting. Many growers have realized for the 

 first time that potato improvement is not merely an individual 

 but a community effort. 



The elimination of mixed stock has been promoted through 

 the agency of the "Potato Special." Only standard market 

 varieties were shown on these cars. At many stop-over points 

 growers were surprised to discover that they were growing 

 some such standard variety as Rural New Yorker or Green 

 Mountain under a name which was introduced as a new variety 

 or novelty. This confusion is rapidly being straightened out in 

 Wisconsin. 



Special meetings have 

 been held in cooperation 

 with growers and commer- 

 cial interests at each stop 

 over point. A practical 

 discussion has been given on 

 topics of special relation to 

 local conditions. Growers 

 have been urged to arrange 

 local exhibits and this fea- 

 ture often has been the 

 means of uniting upon a 

 plan of seed improvement 

 for the community. 



At the close of the 1912 

 tour at Waupaca, represen- 

 tatives of the commercial po- 

 tato sections of the state met 

 in a two days' convention, 

 under the direction of the 

 Horticultural Department 

 of the University and organ- 

 ized the Wisconsin Potato 

 Growers Association. 



T. A. HOVERSTAD. 



Agricultural 



Commission Soo 

 Railroad, 



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