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The Potato Industry

.Mr. J. W. Boulter speaking at Rotary yesterday saldz-I have been asked to continue the series of ag- ricultural talks which this Club has been enjoying for several weeks past, and to direct my thought along the lines of the potato indus- try. l have already addressed‘ you on this subject, and I fear my re- marks will become, tiresome.

To be in line with the other boys. I should define my topic, and I know of no definition better suited than the following (authorship un- known).

Potatoes are seeds that are plant- ed and grown in Prince Edward Is- land to keep the producer broke and the buyer crazy. The tuber varies in colour and weight, and the man

EOSEBERRY. Nine members un-l eight visitors met ut. the home 0i IVIYS. JOIm R. 310K110. Roll mill was answered ‘by "A Town and what it is noted for," which proved very instructive as did also the discussion on Canadian authors, lu- tersperssd with tile singing 0i‘ Pat.-

' rlotic songs by the member. A P10881118 feature 0f the evening was

(Jlzi, and Miss Iilarioll MacRao.

Flip, Srcretnry sent away $2.00 to he '1‘. l‘). lllutnn ('0. for embroid-

.r_v floss, in UIIIIIFIJIIIPI‘ the names m the Anlnglzlpil quilt which is v urlcr ivay, the nzunes are l0 cent-H ml upwards.

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OONN SYIIIIP 2 Lb. Tin 13c

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who can guess nearest to the size of the crop while it is growing is called a. “Potato Man" by the pub- .ic.~A "Fool” by the farmer, and o. ‘Poor business man" by his credit- ors.

The price of potatoes is detenn- ined by the man who has to eat them and goes up when you have told and down when you have sought. A dealer working for s. ,'roup of shippers was sent to Bos- on to watch thc potato market, and after a few days deliberation he wired his employers to this ef- iect: "SOME THINK THEY WIL GO UP AND SOME THINK THEY WILL G0 DOWN. I DO TOO. WHATEVER YOU DO WILL BE wnono. ACT AT ones." 1 Potatoes are planted in the springl mortgaged in the summer. and left to freeze in the sheds in the fall. You can and you can't; and you will and you won't. Be damned if you do, and be damned if you don't. It is a. healthy sign to see so large a number of business men interes- ted in agriculture. Perhaps in no Province in Canada do we find greater interest on the part. of thc business people oi‘ the Province than in Prince Edward Island. This is a natural result of our early training, for I have no doubt that a large percentage of us began life on the farm.

We know something of thc work involved to produce and market potatoes and other farm crops.

lf we let our minds revert to those. dnys, and could we have a picture of conditions on the farm today. we would be unanimous in saying that the work begun in 1020 and to put the potato industry on s. better commercial basis was one of the greatest events in the agricultural history oi‘ Prince Edward Island. We can recall that previous to that. time, our method of farming, which had improved from still ear- lier days, was still one that did not give sufficient returns for the lab- our involved to make farming of any interest to the young people of‘ the Province. We lost heavily in population, and the introduction of seed potato growing, with its accom- panying financial returns, has

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Sage Tea Turns Gray Hair Dark

By SHIRLEY BLAKE

That beautiful. even shade of dark, glossy‘ hair can only| be had by brewing amlx-l ture of Bags- Taa and Sul- phur. YOLITI hair is your| c h a. r m. makes or mars the face. when 112' fades, turns gray or streaked, Justl an application or two of Sage and Sulphur enchances its appearances. hundlcdfold.

Don't bother to prepare the mix- ture. You can get this famous old recipe, improved by the addition of other ingredients, for only 75 cents, all ready for use. It is called Wy- sth’s Bage and Sulphur Compound. This can always be depended upon w bring back the natural color and lustre of your hair.

Everybody uses “Wysetlvs Sago and Sulphur Compound now be- cause it darkens so naturally and evenly that nobody can hell it has been applied. You simply dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and

ldiaw this thrOiIh the hair. toxins ‘one small strabd at a time’: M’ _mornin¢ the flray hair disap- peared, and other sooth dppllel- | tion it becomes beautifully dark and appears glossy and lustrous.

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checked more than any other fac- tor the annual depletioniof our population, yea. it will still further check this exodus, and we‘ believe eventually turn the tide in our fa- vour. ‘g, . - . Y ~ i

The development 1n the potato business has not been phenomenal, but rather gradual. Not every year is Profitable. and yortritinoe 1920 there was onlyone-Jyear, that of 1924, when the price of potatoes was low. Every other year there has been a. good aveifldi? Price, with a substantial net return over cost of production to the producer. .

I do not know why so many peo- ple deplore the fact; that our farm- ers ale paying better attention to the growing of potatoes than they formerly did. We have in Prince Edward Island, according to Dom- inion statistics, about .800,000 acres of cultivated land. This divided among 13,000 farmers gives an aver- age of 60 acres to'the‘farm of till- able land. »

In 1927 we had under potatoes-

~i7,000 acres. This is slightly over 2V» acres per farm. Of this acreage. 25,000 acres were grown under in- spection for certification, and the

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_ r to yield well. because of lack of plant food. this plant food must be planted before production can be obtained. The need of feeding the loll has been known for centuries. Virgil wrote two thousand years ago: t

"But sweet vicissitudes of rest and toil.

Make easy labour and renew the sol

Yet sprinkle sordid ashes all

around, And load with fattening dung the fallow soil."

Too often we took from the soil a crop of Wheat or Oats without supplying plant food for the crop. Today we add the very elements of plant food the plant requires, name- ly, Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid and iPotnsh.

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ENRICIIING TIIE SOIL

Our fanners apply nnlch more plant food to the land in which they grow their potatoes than the potato crop requires. Wc have seen thc poorest of soil turned illto a veri-

table garden, through the process of applying commercial fertilizers and proper cultivation.

Nature helps in this work, and left‘ to herself will restore the land; but this is too slow, and we must have s. high state of fertility to increase production.

It is stated that the greatest lim- ,ltlng factor in crop production in Eastern Canada today is the lack of , soil fertility. The application of artificial fertilizer is removing this factor, and throughout thc Prov- ince of Prince Edward Island there are thousands of acres which five years ago were practically worth- less that are now in a high state of fertility. And the continued nag of these fertilizers will continue to en- rich that land.

We do-not mean that potatoes should be grown year after year ur thesame soil, but following a rota- tibn oi’ crops in which clover forms part of the rotation and with the barnyard manure that every farm sgppiles, the necessary humis for

e soil will be provided. iglisaw recently a picture of Hay grown on the Experimental Farm, Ottawa, which gave a yield of 4 1-3 tons per acre, taken from land- which has received only commercial

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fertilizer for the past sixteen years. The want of fertilizer may hurt the jsbll,‘ but not the application. , , The potatq, outlook for 1928 is for ,an increased acreage over i927. is statement is based on our or- ers for ‘fertilizers which we are daily receiving. The staff tells mc that if orders continue coming in as late as they usually do that instead of having 20,000 tons as last year. the aggregate will be around 30,000 tons. This does, not forecast an ear-

number of applicants was 4,480. Am; ly holiday for by the time the fer- cording to figures given usfrom the tilizer and spray materials are dis- Inspection Service Branch, only htlibuted, there will be the bags to percent of the growers had over 20 purchase and distribute, sales to acres. 9 "percent planted over 10 make. and by that time we shall and less than 20 acres; 25 percentbegin assembling for the movement planted over 5 and less than 10 acr-Q of the next crop. es; while 65 percent planted less This increase is not confined to than 5 acres, or, 90 percent of the‘ Prince Edward Island. The Bulletin growers had less than 10 acres plan- n the D1000 111000010115 $01" "10 U"- ted to potatoes. - ted States, issued March 21st, says: Our yield was estimated at slight- “Report-s 1mm about 50-000 farmers ly over 7,000,000 bushels, or about. 30 in March, indicate that their (U.S.> bushels per capita. Tile yield per inf-Bnl-ifllls were i0 1018m- 3-923-099 capita for the Dominion is about acres of potatoes this year. Or near-

8 i-2 bushels, while that- for the United States is 3 1-2 bushels per cupita.. ,- i . MIXED FARMING While the comparison‘ of‘ these figures makes our Province look like a real potato country, we must bear in mind that our population is so largely agricultural that thc figures are not out of proportion. And Prince Edward Island can yet grow more potatoes without endan- gering in any way mixed fanning. For instance, if 10 percent of thc farm was used for potatoes, it would not be an undue proportion for that crop, and yet to plant this acreage we must increase to 80,000 acres, which figure will not be reached for some time. ‘Now, if 10 percent of the farm was used for potatoes un- der our present system of fertilizing it would mean increased fertility to Just that number of acres which otherwise would not be fertilized. The potato industry as now con- ducted is a. cash crop, differing from the crops formerly turned directly into cash. such as Oats, inasmuch as the fertility of the soil is increas- ed rather than reduced. The cash

ly l2 percent more than in 1927. This acreage is about 27 percent greater than that which produced the small crop of 1925, and 18 per- cent greater than that which pro- duced the bumper crop of 11924.

The present intended acreage is the largest planted since that oi" 1222, and with yields equal to the average of the past live years, may‘ be expected to produce n total of over 440,000,000 bushels for the ‘Un- ited Statcs in 1928. Yields per acre are increasing, due to the use oi certified seed, and better care givcn to the crop."

It. is in years when there is n hcavy yield that the Association is called upon to market heavily. The fall of 1927 saw the heaviest move- ment of potatoes on record for thc Province. Up to December 31st about 2,600,000 bushels were moved. Of these the Association moved over 1,000,000 bushels.

I am going to show you on this map just where our principal mar- kets are. You can better under- stand our work when you can visu- alise, the scope of our activities. I have already reported this during Farmers‘ Week, and perhaps you

returns are greater: and we have have read it from the press; but as many instances of farmers who l0 we travel along this Atlantic sea years ago were barely able to cxist,l coast what I have pointed out to who today are enjoying some of the you will give you some idea of the luxuries of life, while others are immensity of our market, considered for this Province, well to‘ Had it not been for the very en- do. We could point to many farm-lergetic efforts of the Southgatc ers who have no hesitationinclaim- Produce Company, of Norfolk, Vir- ing that thc growing of potatoes ginia, represented in this Province has made life worth while, and by Charlie, we could not have ex- glven thcmsome ready money, and fended our territory as was done. enhanced the value of their real The Southgato Company have exer- estate. tcd great energy in the development If thc Province will be providedof our markets, and we think of with the increased transportationtheln today as Just a part of our facilities necessary to meet the in- organization. crease in the quantity produced, we Now. I do not wish to take the have no need to fear for its future championship from J. O. Hyndman, progress. The real estate of this and unless I bring this talk to a Province will within five years dou- close I am afraid John will not be ble in value. This statement is not in it. Yet I feel that this potato

based on optimism. but on evidence industry means to the agricultural v

from results during the past flve population of the Province more years. The winter transportation than any other line which they arc must be improved. The railway has following. And to make it the full moved from January 1st to teisuccess it. offers, every farmer i300 cars. If they had suppilz d should,coinblpe with the growing of three hundred cars more these lpotatoés,‘ dairying. _hog raising and would be out of the province. I_- poultry.‘ Mbthese products arc now keted when there was a dem d graded and sold on merit, and with a good price and not as today, through the co-‘operative organiza- with no demand and the time for tions reach the widest and best shipping seed past. We have ndvbr market's of-the world. had anything like a. sufficient silp- ‘Phflinsiicction service under the ply 0f cars since January 10th‘ until direction inl- this province of B. G this week. and now only becauslfPeppln. has meant much to the po- there is no market. ; tatoindustry. Without rigid inspec-

I must not dwell longer on ‘Lhistion ‘we could never have gained phase of the work; our time is Jboythe reputation we have. and with s‘ short to discuss this in full. Bit Iithhtcning up of the regulations on would like to dlsabuse your mindslbotir’ seed and tableatock we can of an idea that is prevalent. not hold a place on the market second only with the business men but with to none on the American Continent. many farmers throughout our Pro- .. ~-'-=—..~,~,_<+>—~'—- - vinec, that is that the L ntinued use "A man always tries lo follow the of commercial fertilizers will BVflfllrl5flfllghf, and narrow path whim ltl alggullglhl‘ m0 5°" I" I "m-dillmcomes to shovolling snow.

1f we would think fowl moment. ' word or . just what a coinmerahi fertiliser cub-NM‘ m“ many sec

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PERSONALS The many friends of Mrs. Rob- ert Duncan will regret to learn that she is in the P. E. I. Hospital with appendicitis. '

Ml'. A. A. McDonald, Upper llills- boro Street, who has bcen very iii with blood poisoning is reported better today.

Mrs. Janles F‘. Roper, of Prince- port, N. S., is visiting llcr son, Mr. Russscl Itopcr and Mrs. Roper. Cen- tral Rqyalty. ,4

Mrs. A. Corrigan. Georgetown Royalty, left for hcr home yesterday after‘ spcndingttllc week ‘end in the city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Dillon,

Mi‘. William Pcnrdon. has lcft for Toronto, culled there on account oi the serious illness oi his brother-in- law, Ensign. Squarebriggs. _--_<O&-—_-_——-

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