VSOME FACTS ABOUT TIA-IE HOMEL Y PO TA TO I AND ITS PRODUCTYON

interesting Article Forwarded To The Guardian By Mr. John J. Louson, Montreal, Who Ex. presses Desire To Obtain More Information About Potato Growing In This Province, Whose Product He Has Handled For Many

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4mm a strapping he had received, glong with l8 others, nearly three months ago at the Indian reserva- tion school here.

The mass flogging was described by Elev. Father J. P. MacKie, yrlncipal of the school. who said lhe boys had been beaten across their backs and shoulders, in the pcsence of a Royal Canadian

, ‘ “ Police constable, follow- ing the theft of $58.44 from the sister superiors office,

Mr. Justice Audette, sitting as l royal commissioner, opened the official enquiry thlsymomirlg with ll. D. Blanchard of Windsor as commission counsel. Induns of the ‘reservation and Allism MacDonald,

"Department oi Indian Affairs in Ottawa to order the investigation, were represented by Major Daniel Jiven, K. 0., of Annapolis Royal, ‘while Father Maoliie was repre- sented by J- A. Hanway, K. C., ltl Amherst. Sixteen witnesses were iltlfii today and seven more will testify when the enquiry l; can. ‘tinned tomorrow. l iie identified a strap exhibited in Ltourt as the ilutrument of punish- dflllit. but h; denied a suggestion [that it had been soaked in vine- illr the night before the Pupils ivrre strapped. 'I‘he strap had fOlll‘ YlWKS and. he said it orlglnoliy had Jtlefl. He remembered one had rimmed off during the flogging. i Indan pupils called to ille wlt_ {lit-ti stand readily admitted peg- iiitiliiiiiii! in a series of petty thefts .ln the institution, culminating in lliit limit 0i $53.44 from the Siser tiivperlors office. l, Father lvmcKie said he had call- ,¢d Constable ‘Thurston as soon as ;iiw loss of the money was report. :3 The constable had gone to I me oi the stores and learned the gl°l= ilid been purchasing mouth flilum- “My. cakes and other jfiini-‘l- some of these articles had 1m l‘ mil“! by the beds of some of ; e boys. , in?“ Plinpipel said the boys would gm 5;! who committed the theft 5,0 “is; 30885118 had been ordered ‘Md °l° discipline. Edward Mac- >M slid he had wielded the strap use Father MacKle was ill and condition to do it himself. Mnchbgys h" b64911 strapped on m‘ and I1 others on March

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An interesting article on potatp krowing, published recently in the New York Times Magazine, he; been forwarded to The Guardian from John J. Louson; Montreal, W130. in a covering letter says:

I thought I would p353 the u. ticie on to you for publication, as by this means it will reach the greater number of growers and shippers who might gflln some use- ful ideas about improving the P, E, I- "OD b scientific treatmimt; yo,» if the rmans can produce 400 bushels to the acre what 1s the matter with P. E, I. growers doing the some? It appeal-g w me ma; perhaps the Germans use superim- fertilizer. Anyway, they have no better soil or other growing condi- tions than the Garden of the Gulf, W“! it may be so that as a rule Prince Edward Island raises more bushels to the acre than any other place in Canada. I can remember the time when no fertilizer was used on Prince Edward Island, and if my memory serves me cor- rectly it was Mr. McIver of Kinko- ra who was the first farmer to use fertilizer in the cultivation and development of potatoes, bringing his ideas and experience from the United States to Prince Edward Is- land. Hundreds of curious growers and others visited his farm to see the results of the new treatment of the soil. Will some grower wme The Guardian and state what. is the average crop per acre for P. E. I., say for last year, and what would be the best scientific me- thod to increase per acre the crop for this or any other year. As I have been interested in selling P. E. I. spuds for some thirty years, I would like to learn some bright ideas from the farmer and per- haps I can secure thlsknowledge through the channels of Tho A Guardian. I have been going to Prince Edward Island for over-Ail years and am planning to visit. it again this year. ‘

The New York Times article is entitled “The Potato Defies the Dietitian," by Henrietta Ripper- ger. It reads as follows: ‘ ‘ ' The season for new potatoes, which begins when the little red ones first come from Bermuda, carries on with the Florida crop which is now pouring in. The price has now settled! down to a figure

pie of all classes to indulge their appetite for this staple article of food.

When the New Yorker sits down to dinner he eats focd that is ga- thered from all over the country. The chances are that any item has travelled more than a thousand miles, for fifteen hundred miles is the average haul of our food sup- ply.

Ftelds where potatoes grow lic far from New York. Bermuda, far out at sea, sends us the potatoes that delight the epicure in early Spring, The mountainlstaios - Utnh, Colorado, Wyoming and es- pecially Idaho -— ship potatoes that have grown big and dry in the sun-baited land east of the Sier- ras. There is an impression that we get most of our potatoes from Long Island. It is true that we get some, and very good ones. Actual-Ly however, the volume is small. While shipments from other sour- ces come into New York at the rate of anywhere from 56 to 200 cal-loads e. week, Ions Island's 00H- signments average one car-load I week.

It is the Maine potato which, ac- cording ioan expert in the City Consumers‘ Service, holds its own for flavor, texture and all-round usefulness. Aroostook County. M8». is the leading slupper- ‘P1118 ma“), lylng "like the open hand of God DGIWCCH rivers and lakes, is the grcat potato country.

Any one who has followed the trends in food would expect to fmd u decided diminution in the dc- nialid for potatoes. The Dreyfl- leltce of dieting to redluce, and the popularity of one particular dict which prohibits the use 0i’ mflit and potatoes at. the same meal. would indicate that the demand would steadily decrease. But on the whole, the potato industry "Ems to show unexpected freedom from the influence of the dieting mania.

Far teaching as the influence of fads among women is, weather and business conditions, like death and taxes, are still basic facts. The New York market is probably the 111°“ sensitive and sophisticated. Hem the 1934 outlook is better than thflt of 1933, both as to quantity and price. m 1932 hhlere was a chew amp. m that year. however. the weather was against the fennel" mid the supply was small. poor and high. The first years of the dc- pression-ION and 1930 -. showed an increase in the number of car- loacll coming into New York. Wilwh may have been due to the (not thlt potatoes were a loW-Pficfli 7°“- The normal yen-m below m9 4°‘ premion show very “W9 "“l““°“ in quantity.

People who prefer to (let iii?" information via. the financial page may be interested in the sidclight thrown on uustlmiustryhlgv 1;- 5:23); tistlciank repor on and Aroostook ‘lrfllti- Th“ illm’ line, covering e14 miles. is MW" as the “Potato Road.“ will“ ll‘ hauls lumber. paper eltld 396,11‘;

re im rtafl D8 tatoes a an P0 long period of

which makes it possible for peo- 8k

1931 retarded the movement of the potato crop. Beginning in October of 1931 the Maine potato growers b68841 to take advantage of the fact that there were many idle eilillb- From Searsport the crop was moved to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, even-to New Orleans and Houston, Texas. The 10w ship- Pin8 rate kept Maine from losing the markets in Southern territory t0 potato shippers fzom the West. Low transportation cost saved the (lily as far as the Maine farmer was concerned.

slyly-eight per cent of the na- li°i1$ Potato crop does not travel far from home. It is eaten on the farm or sold to neighbors near by. It is a fair guess that the demand. hello remains steady. The dietitian 0i B- iarge Middle Western college told this writer that she could not Bet the students to eat green vege- tables in any quantity. They had been brought up on meat, gravy "Y"! Pfltatoes. This was what they liked. The hearty meat and pota- to trencherman of the small town and the farm creates a. consistent market for the potato.

It is this use of the potato in place of green vegetables that diet- itians deplore. One often hears the argument that the Irish lived on potatoes and thrived on them. One must remember, however, writes an authority, that this applied to the Irish peasantry and that on the farm there was always a cow to furnish in its milk the fat and protein that would otherwise be missing. The place for potatoes, most dietitians agree, is among the vegetables, of which it should be only one.

"Properly used. however, the po- teto is an, excellent food especially when one eats the part right under the‘ peel. During the war a. prlv; 1e doing his tum at “kitchen po- lice" duty was set to peeling pota- toes. He cut. the peels about an eighth of an inch thick. These he saved. The potatoes he threw away- Presed. to put it mildly, for an explanation, he lustified his me- thud with pride. In civilian life he had been a debonair bachelor ‘with no kitchen experience, but when his country needed him he rose to the need of the hour and. remem- bered that the most valuable part d! the potato lay right under the

in.

Varieties of potatoes are so num- erous that one cm have s. dllffer- ent kind every day in the week. The little new red potatoes are sweet and delicious when boiled and served with butter and chop- ped parsley. The Idaho potatoes are used largely for baking, while the Maine and Long Island are the standby for ordinary purposes. In addition there are the sweet potatoes - popular with nodule who like Southern cooliiflg- The light varieties are to be had almost anywhere in the markets, but if one wants the real “yaller yams" it is well to commission the color- ed cook or the laundr-ess to bring them in from her own neighbor- hood.

The City Consumers Servlce, a division of the Department of Pub- lic Markets, has prepared a folder giving 134 ways oi preparing pota- toes. The women in the depart- ment are said to have sat down and compiled all the recipes for potato cookery that they knew. They had by no means exhausted their fund of information at the 134th recipe, but as they had to stop somewhere they stopped at that point.

It is amusing to note on the first sheet directions for roasting pota- toes camp fashion, Any man. who as a boy, had the city streets as his playground will tell you that there is nothing so good as a pota- to that has been roasted in a. bon- fire on a vacant lot. It should be eaten with a. little salt and prefer- ably after dark. Here, he will say, was the potato at its best. But here, too. he forgets that the m1- potiie was also at its best.

Ilngland is responsible for n great deal of the progress made in potato growing in the past. In England, potato glowing is a ser- ious part of the gardening on a country estate. The list oi person- ages who love been interested in developing new varieties _of pota- toes reads like a list of guests at a garden party or the members of l. fashionable hunt- Potatoes over there are among the things that really matter.

In Germany scientific agriculture has accomplished great results. Germans get about 400 bushels p .- acre. as against 100 bushels per acre here. The demand in Ger- many for potato flour and potato starch has encouraged the tanner and that country now uses- about thlrty bushels per capita, where the United States uses three.

Although in this country Pol-B" toes are generally ‘alsed by DWPk who own land in small towns, they have never become objccts of much interest on the large estates. Even on Long Island, where both larBe estates and potatoes abound, the actual raising is left to the MtiW far-mer- rather than to the import- ed gardener.

It Ls not that wc lock interest in gardens. We have plenty 0i! 9n‘ thusiasts who my“ mulch and sprays -1 The! look forward with the opti- mism of all trzz: gardeners to peas 9'11! b::ts and ttruhtoes anz‘ car-

buslnea Over I . ' d rots and early corn, but pots-cs ifiifilnfimlii? .‘.i’-‘-».£TF.'".‘7§?.’%~ no w m: w H» w- mgl-kgbly gtnblo, .'. fall lfl F1 I ‘ ll? H

Town Makes Pet 0i Sturdy Buck

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(By The Cuhlllllll Pnu) y , lidllcln, June ll-Prob- ably theNls no more" privileged character in this sins-ll town than Bondy. c your old‘ time buck deer that makes his headquarters at a service station, but roll-ms the town atwill. - l

Sandy was brought to Hillmsn, says The Detroit News. by William Crank of the Conservation ‘Depart- ment, who hmd found the fawn with s; broken leg trapped in a. forest fire north of the village. His in- jured leg was dressed by a veter- inarian and with good care lie ha! grown into s sturdy young buck and a genera-l favorite among the townspeople, , cially the children.

Children's voices seem to have a. music lure for Sandy who hast- ens to join their owners at their play whenever he hears them. It is tho children that gave him the name of “Bondy? because of his general appearance. though he is said to deserve this name also bo- cause ofihls feurlcssness, particu- larly when it comes to dogs. Bandy will stomp his front feet and face any dog in town.

Ocooslonally Sandy's tuto for sweets and other knicknwks leads him into mischief as was the case when an afternoon ladies’ club "leelin! Y!” in Dmgress. The hos- tess of the meeting, hearing g nqlge in her kitchen, hurried out Just in time to save the refreshment; she had prepared for her guests from being eaten up by the deer.

Then. W0. Bandy has to be watch- ed carefully during his frequent visits to the various places of bus.

iness in town, all of which ho has "

called upon at one time or another, In stores where such things are for 581B. flflfldy bars and apples and tilt! lllifl 8T6 h0ll¢ tpo 5319 whgn Sandy is around.

Men Take Wings To Tell “Probs”

(By The Canadian Press)

WASHINGTON, June 11—The weather man is going to poke his head into the clouds so he can ad- vise the public more exactly on that weighty problem: "Shall Clrfy a raincoat or shall I not?"

Starting July l. a new system of "air-mass analysis" Boos into op- eration. It means a lot of govern- ment aviators will have to go up before breakfat.

Army. navy and marine corps aviators will make fr , sound. ings of the upper air with special instruments called "rueteorog-raphs".

Meteorologists believe that air M86598. moving across the surface of the earth, govern weather to a marked degree. Information on their conditions, direction, and speed is considered vital to more acurate corecaatlng.

$0 each morning the pilots will take of! at 6.30 a. m. with their meteorographs on the wing and 0501M! to 17.000 feet. above sea. lev- el. The data they obtain will sup- plement the reports of ground Observers. of the weather bureau, and much 0f the guess in forecast- ing will be eliminated,

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Greece Not w’ Paying Debt

(C. P. By Guardian's Special. Wire) OTTAWA, June il-The amount “‘ indebtedness to Canada by the government of Greece is $6,526,000, according to information given in the House of Commons today. No payment on account of principal or interest has been received since June 30, 1931. Negotiations have been proceeding for resumption of the service of the debt, and Canada's claims have been put forward from time to tirne-

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reason in the fact that potatoes have to be stored for later use. Even the Long Islander does not usually whiter on his estate. It 1s inconvenient. to store potatoes and troublesome to move them. It is far easier to buy chem at the city markets.

This undramatlc vegetable is nevertheless associated with some of the most dramatic periods in history. 1t was brought to Spain in the year 15B’? in the hold of some creaking galleon smelling of tar, bilge water and mt from Chile, where it had been cultivated for a thousand years. It entered: London the following year, perhaps aboard some captured Spanish prime. two shipments are the sources of all the potatoes in Europe.

For many years the potato crop was the mainstay bf Ireland. In 1845 the crop failed. Famine took thousands. not only on the city streets but on farm: in, every “wild and windv corner of fa-r- distant hills." The net result was the triumph for free trade in Great Britain and the Irish immi- gration io America. There was one more modest result, and that was an intensive study of potato grow- ing.

The historian of tho free trade struggle says at that time the question oi s people's food was considered m the light of political expediency. Flood, when it. was con- sidered at all, was a pawn in a political guns. It has frequently been the pawn in the speculative financial game. It is now beinfl dealt with in the realm of mono- mlcs, where it belongs, where sup- Dly and demand nro studied, A rc-

oenil use has been found for ti! l8

sweet potato surplus with the dis- covery that a very fine starch can be made from it.

0n the whole, however, ‘the p0- tnto crop causes us less worry than almost any other product. The p0‘- tlto mnrket has seldom. so t0

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Tllll TRINIDAD FLYERS KILLED

(C. l’. Cable by Guardian's Special ‘ Wire)

PORT OF SPAIN, ‘Trinidad, June ll-A twisted heap of wreck- age against the towering side of ‘rrinldadk Mount Tucuche tonight told the story of a crash that claimed the lives of two airmen on a pioneering flight to the nearby island of Tobazo.

When Michael Clprianl and Les- lie Bradshaw set out from Port. of Spain eight clays ago they hoped Clprianlis “Humming Bird" would be the first plane t0 land on the isle. And for Ciprlani, a.~_,pioneer West Indian aviator, there was bound up in the flight the hope that it would pave the way for an aerial service linking ‘Irinldsdnnd its neighbor.