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The Colorado Experiment Station. 
The Score Card of the Weld County Farmers’ Club is as follows: 
I. Dealers’ Seale. 
$ 
Too large. 
. 4 
Size 2 0. 
Too small. 
.10 
{ 
Not even. 
. 6 
Share 10 
.10 
\ 
. } 
Not bright. 
.10 
Skin 40. 
Dirty. 
.10 
Scabby or wormy. . 
.20 
Quality 30 ... . 
\ 
. } 
Unsound . 
Brittle or spongy or 
green . 
.10 
.20 
100 
II. Final Purchaser’s 
Scale 
Smoothness . . 
. 5 
Pares thin . . . . 
.10 
Flesh white. . . 
. 5 
Sound and not 
hollow, 
.10 
Cortical thick. 
.10 
Centers small 
and not 
watery. 
.10 
50 
III. Consumer’s Scale 
Quickness of cooking. . 
. 5 
Potatoes cook 
alike. . , 
. 5 
Mealiness . . . . 
.10 
Whiteness . . . 
.10 
Grain (mashed) .... 
. 5 
Flavor . 
.15 
50 
Total Score (perfect 200). 
Cooking Tests should always decide the sweepstakes prizes. 
Growers and the potato specialist alike owe this to their own inter¬ 
ests and that of the consumer. Six uniform white enamel pots 
tagged or numbered, and gas or gasolene stoves to boil six lots at 
once, together with paring knives, basins, a potato ricer or fruit 
press, and one or two capable assistants are required for doing this 
work with dispatch. 
EFFICIENCY OF LABOR IN POTATO HARVEST. 
Labor Costs More in New Regions. —We have been struck by 
the low efficiency of labor in the potato harvests of our newer re¬ 
gions as compared with our established potato districts; a difference 
almost as great as between the labor cost of shoes made by a cobbler 
and by a factory, and for much the same reasons. 
This slowness is a disadvantage, not alone in cost of produc¬ 
tion, but in increased danger of being caught by a fall freeze. 
System and the Best Equipment are Cheapest. —For economy 
and speed the best sorters must be used; and solid sacks—“Liver¬ 
pool Returns,” the best wire baskets, the best needles, and a high 
grade of Italian sack twine are none too good. Standard potato 
wagons are absolutely necessary to the grower who would make 
most money. 
