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Jersey Spud at the Bar 
Potato Mock Trial Creates Fun and Interest 
T ELE New Jersey potato has come 
under the public eye, charged with 
being an undesirable citizen, and so far 
has been proved “Not Guilty.” For four 
years the New Jersey “spud” has been 
gaining more and more disfavor, due to 
particularly heavy crops, and competi¬ 
tion from other potato areas and from new 
potato sections, all of which have meant 
lower prices and an unsatisfactory situa¬ 
tion in the important New Jersey early 
potato belt. 
Is the New Jersey potato guilty of the 
situation in which it finds itself? That is 
what New Jersey farmers have now set 
about to prove, and the method which 
they are following is one of the most in¬ 
genious and novel plans of foeusing pub¬ 
lic attention upon the potato yet devised. 
Under the direction of the State Potato 
Improvement Committee, with W. B. 
Duryee, prominent potato authority and 
President of the New Jersey State Potato 
Association, as Field Agent, a series of 
mock trials of the “New Jersey potato” 
is being held in leading producing centers. 
Trial Includes All Concerned 
The mock trials of the New Jersey 
potato, with leading growers, county 
agents, bankers and potato dealers com¬ 
prising the cast, are creating an interest 
which is bringing out hundreds of potato 
growers to the meetings. The presiding 
judge, prosecutor, defense counsel, court 
clerk, defendant and jury are all potato 
farmers, and comprise the permanent 
cast conducting the trials throughout the 
State. Witnesses and jury are drawn from 
the various communities. The witnesses, 
usually three for the prosecutor and three 
for the defendant are large potato grow¬ 
ers, bankers, dealers or county agents. 
Big Turnout at Allentown 
Typical of these mock trials was that 
held in late November at Allentown, N. 
J., in the center of the big Monmouth 
County potato area. Frank Brunner, 
potato farmer of Middlesex County, N. 
J., acted as Presiding Judge. The Court 
Clerk, Fred F. Grove, of Middlesex 
County, well-known grower, opened 
court in the formal way and provided for 
the panel of jurors. Frank M. Smith, 
prominent potato grower of Monmouth 
County was the Prosecutor. Through 
witnesses Mr. Smith attempted to prove 
that the potato is an undesirable citizen. 
It has inherent qualities which make 
it undesirable for Monmouth County. 
It appeared from the testimony that 
some high grade farmers have failed in 
the potato business; it further appeared 
that the most serious trouble has come 
from among the young farmers who 
started potato growing during or just 
preceding the war period. The heavy 
investment in potato farms due to good 
prices and profits for a period of two or 
three years, and an advanced scale ot 
living have caused serious financial con¬ 
ditions. 
And so the prosecutor pleaded his case. 
Of course, he attempted to place the 
entire blame on the potato. Earle Dila- 
tush of Robbinsville, N. J., who grows 
close to a hundred acres of potatoes, was 
called to the witness chair. Ellwood 
Douglas of Freehold, N. J., County 
Agent for Monmouth County was es¬ 
corted to the stand. The banker, in 
this case, Charles A. Spaulding of Allen¬ 
town, N. J., stated that the potato lends 
itself to speculation, but Mr. Spaulding 
does not believe the potato should be 
deported from the County. 
The Defendant’s Case 
Then came the opportunity for the 
Defendant. The counsel for the Defend¬ 
ant, H. J. Butcher of Middlesex County, 
rallied to the defense of the potato and 
cleverly showed that the New Jersey 
“spud” is suffering from the results of 
conditions outside of its own control. 
He contended that the use of poor seed, 
indifferent production methods and chao¬ 
tic marketing, added to over-production 
in the East and the opening up of new 
potato growing areas, have brought about 
an entirely different situation from that 
existing years ago. Witnesses brought 
to the stand bore out his contention. 
H. E. Hulsart of Allentown, N. J., prom¬ 
inent farmer, Benjamin Yard, District 
Manager of the Monmouth County 
Farmers Exchange and Frank G. Rue 
of Imlavstown, N. J., a leading potato 
grower, brought out that the reduction 
in acreage, improved methods of pro¬ 
duction and better marketing would 
make the potato a crop yielding a fair 
profit when used as a part of a crop rota¬ 
tion on the average farm. 
The Potato Appears 
Just previous to the summing up by 
the prosecuting and defending attorneys, 
the New Jersey potato itself, in the per¬ 
son of a masked figure, was placed in the 
witness chair. Back of the mask and 
potato costume was W. B. Duryee, Field 
Agent for the Potato Improvement Com¬ 
mittee, and from whose direct leader¬ 
ship New Jersey farmers are finding that 
the conditions surrounding the potato 
rather than the potato itself, are respon¬ 
sible for the unsatisfactory situation in 
New Jersey potato areas. 
At the conclusion of the trial, the jury 
retired to consider its verdict. The Allen¬ 
town meeting, as at two previous trials 
held in nearby sections of the State, give 
the verdict of “Not Guilty.” While the 
jury was in deliberation a poll is taken of 
the audience. At all of the trials so far, 
the audience has likewise returned a 
verdict of “Not Guilty.” From beginning 
(Continued on page J+13) 
The principals in the trial at the Cranbury trial, including judge, attorneys, defendant 
clerk and witnesses 
