New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1925, Page 3

POOR ROTATO CROP Yerge of Starvation Washington, D. C, April §.— Ireland had & poor potato harvest last fall, and as a result parts of the island are reported to be on the vérge of famine. “It takes such traglc occurrences as Ireland’s food shortage to bring home to the average man the tre-|be Incorporated into feeds for do. nendotis importance of the potato,” nays: & ‘bulletin from the Washing- ton, D, C, ' headquarters of the National Geographic society, “Half a' dozen other comntries of Europé would be in a similar plight if thelr potato crops failed,” continues the bulletin, “although a few centuries ago potatoes had not ever been heard of In any of these lands, One of America’s Valuable Gifts “The potato is one of the many valuable gifts of America to the { world, Most histories, busy chronicling wars and elections and Perhaps inventions, faill to em- phasize the Introduetion of the po- tato from America to Europe, or else mention it quite incidentally, Economists and sociologists, how- ever, could make a good case for the potato, as the New World product which has most deeply at- fected life in the Old World. “When Spanish and English ex- plorers and settlers found the po- tato it was grown in a desultory sort of way along the Atlantic coast of parts of North America and the Pacific const of South America. 1t had probably spread to those re- «&lons from Peru, for it is belleved to have been developed into a do- mestic plant in the mountain val- leys of that land some thousands of years ago by Pre-Incan farmera. The world did not take to the po- tato at first either in America or Europe. Not until well after the American revolution did it become a crop of major importanee in North America; and about the time of the French revolution a Parisian philanthropist, Parmentier, found it uphill work to induce the poor of the French metropolls to eat the tubers in free soup kitchens. Created Agricultural “The popularity of this ‘apple of the earth’ grew with a rush when {ts virtues once became known. Ireland was converted early, so much o that a knowledge of the tuber spread from that {island to other European lands and it thereby acquired the misnomer, ‘TIrish po- tato! The potato created an agri- cultural revolution in northern Tiurope and soon became the domi- nant crop. It even made possible an increase in population in & num- ber of European eountries, Now it 1s to that part of the world what rice is to the Orient, It iy more Lruly the staff of life in large areas of the west than wheat fiself. But for the potato Germany probably Jould not have nained in the #reat war more thati's year or so. “Europe has made much greater Jise of the potato than the land of s discovery. . Approximately six- Billion bushels are now grown'tn the world each year. It this' produc. tion could: be brought to éme place it would flll a gigantic bin ten miles long, a ‘mile wide and 28 feet deep. If a partition were placed aeross such a bin at the nine mile post the potatoes in the larger compartment would represent the-production of Furope and Great Britain, Seven. tenths of the potatoes in the smaller Aivision would represent the eon- tribution of the United States to'the ‘world ¢rop; and t¢he remaining three-tenths would represent thoss produced in the rest of the world. Germany, Russis (i had & great acreage than Germsny before the daubtedly will become m impor tant In that fleld. Starch, flour, textlle’ Industries in slsing yarn, in sizing th ewoven fabrics, and In any other country in the utilization of potatoes. The surplus portion of that country's billlon and a half bushel erop goes to factories where the tubers are cpoked, smashed into flakes and dried. The dry flakes, not unlike American corn breakfast foods In form, are sacked and keep pertectly in dry storage, The flakes may be prepared for human consumption aa a vegetable, may be milled into a flour for combination with wheat in bread-making, may mestic animals or may be used as u basls for the preparation of alcohol “Connegticut’s Best Furniture Store” One of the outstanding virtues of the potate which has made it the leading vegetable produst fn morth- ern Europe and northers United States 1s that it grows to in regions too eool and too meist for satisfactory wheat oulture, An. other advantage is the tremendous amount of food materisi per esre contributed by potatoesa A Run- dred bushels per acre is an aversge yield in the United States but in Germany the average yield is nearly {wice as great. The greatest yleld in any country is in the Netherlands Where more than 350 bushels per acre are produced. Under excep- tionally favorable conditions g single acre has been known geo produce 600 bushels. “As 2 world trop the potate, the upstart vegetabls from .the New World, has shouldered its way ahead of both rics and wheat. More pounds of potatoes are now produced than of any other single domestic vegetable product. Pota- toes have won first place in the world, too, in the matter of diffusion. They have becoms an important Crop in the temperate and eool por- tions of every contiment—tfrom Tirance to Scandinavis, in Stberis, the Americas, South Africs, - Aus. jralla, New Zealand. Play Important Part fn “Potatoes are not alone a food vegetable. They already fill an im- pfrtant place In industry and un- SULPHUR IS BEST | 0 CLEAR SKIN Any breaking out or skin irritation on face, neck or body,is overcome quickest by applylng Mentho-Sul- phur, says a noted skin specialist. 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