Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1931, Page 12

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AUNT JEMIMA PANCAKE FLOUR | PANCAKE FLOUR 2:025¢c | 2me20c. UNITED FOOD STORES PILLSBURY'S | South American Indians centuries be- | become too civilized, it 1s explained by | Department of Agricuiture specialists. ‘Gf the nightshade famiiy, of which the | may be crossed with the domestic plant. fact that they have surv | had no patient nurses to pick bugs off | ease resistance which may | mitted to their offspring. , Most of them ING STAR, WASHINGTON," WILD POTATO HUNT STAGED IN MEXICO Department of Agriculture Men From Here Want Speci- mens to Improve Species. Two plant explorers of the Depart- ment of Agriculture now are in Mexico hunting for wild potatoes. The potato, first domesticated by fore the discovery of the New World, has It needs “new blood.” So Max Souviron and Carl Erlandson ar> combing the mountains south of Mexico City for uncultivated members “spud” is the most distinguished mem- ber not even excepting its cousin the tomato, which produce tubers and which It is a serious matter. Already German and Russian explorers nave gone over much of the ground and ga!h"r“d up every variety which promises to be of value. The potato is ammost the stnff of life” for their peoples. Also 12 American States have entered upon a co-operative program with the Depart- ment of Agriculture, of which the Mexi- can expedition is a part. Potato Getting Old. Not that the pctato 1s in any im- mediate danger of being wiped out, ex- | plains Dr. William Stuart, veteran po- tato specialist of the Department of Agriculture, but it is getting old and keeping it in good health is expensive. | Potatoe discases, barely recognized 20 years ago, are becoming more virulent— especially those maladles which are caused by filterable viruses, submicr scopic organisms which are the min known forms of life, and which spread by plant lice and carried over | from season to season in the tubers used | for seed. These discases can be kept Tunney and he’s dressed in the uniform he wore at the inauguration of Gov. Wilbur Cross of Connecticut. a newly commissioned major, is & member of the Connecticut Militia. D. C, THURSDAY, RADIO TALKS LISTED BY ‘NICK’ AND ‘JACK’ Longworth and _Mer, ilc;n-le Leaders, to Argue on “Ownership” of Speaker's Automobile. “Nick” Longworth and “Jack” Garner, whose perennial battle over “our car” which the Government provides for the use of the Speaker, will air: their -re- spective claims over the radio Saturday night as a feature of the installation of officers of the National Press Club. As minority leader and logical suc- cessor to the speakership should the Democrats gain House control, Garner has been vociferous in his demand for at least a share in the car which he has tagged as “‘ours.” Speaker Longworth has been equally emphatic in repelling these claims, rec- ognizing no “ours” and insisting that “mine” is the proper possessive pro- noun, So the will let the country in on a chapter or so of the discussion between these two friendly enemies while Eugene S. Leg- gett of the Detroit Free Press and his staff of officers are taking over their posts. 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Yet they have lived. | In themselves these wild potatoes are | Their tubers, for the most e no bigger than large pe ey have those qualities of d be trans- also will tend to pass on’the small size of their tubers. The objective will be an_ideal combination in which the| hardiness of the wild parent and_ the tuber size of the domestic parent both | will be genetically dominant. This will require thousands of crosses and the discarding of many thousands of plants. | Was “0ld” When Found. When white men first found the do- | mestic potato, it is explained, it was already an “old” plant, and almost cer~ tainly a hybrid obtained in some way | by pre-historic Indians of Peru or Chile. It was taken to Spain and spread slowly over Europe. Then it was introduced into North America by a group of Irish colonists at Londonderry, N. H, and from thence spread over the Colonies. The legend that it was grown by In- dians in Virginia and thence brought to Europe has little foundation. No- body has been able to trace the wild species from which it sprang—other than the broad group of tuber-bearing nightshades. These early potatoes were small, probably not very appetizing, and quite hardy. Then, early in the nineteenth century, the plant breeders started the production of bigger tubers, which has continued ever since. Despite its long | life in domesticity, it is explained at| the Department of Agriculture, the po- | tato still crosses readily with its wild | relatives, but thus far the breeding work has met with little success. Besides potatoes which have a nat- ural resistance to the filterable virus| and .other diseases the Department of Agriculture and the co-operating States | | are trying to develop varieties more re-| sistant to early and late frosts and va- rieties which will thrive in all parts of | the country. Any of these characters | | may be obtained from a wild relative. | Souviron and Erlandson will pick up anything they can find growing wild, regardless of how unpromising it looks, 50 long as it is a tuber-bearing member | of the nightshade family. Many of | these already have been sent to Wuh-' ington, where it is hoped to build up a collection of wild potatoes for experi- | mental purposes as large as the one now accumulated in Russia, where simi- lar breeding work is in progress, Gas Dream Fades. AUCKLAND, New Zealand (#).—A |drug clerk made a big clean-up here when he tricked experts into believing that ke could “brew” gasoline from sea water. A company was formed whose $5 shares jumped to $100. -Then the clerk fled, but he was arrested in Aus- Route Agent will collect at the end of each month, at the rate of 11 cents per days and5 cents Sunday. SeARs, RoeBUCK ano Co. WE GUARANTLE SATISFACTION OR TOUR MOMEY BACK Bladensburg Road 15th and H Sts. N.E. HERE IT 1IS! 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