THE WAUPACA POST

March 26, 1885

 

 

WAUPACA COUNTY POTATOES

The Best in the World.

They take the First Premium at the New Orleans Exposition

 

            A private letter from J.W. Smith, the market gardener of Green Bay, gives the above information.  The letter is worth reading and the POST presents it below to its readers:

 

            FRIEND SPRINGER: - I have received Notice that the first premium upon seedling potatoes has been awarded to me.  It was upon the Waupaca seedlings as I had none of my own.  I have had some trouble in the matter, as the judges threw them all out once, declaring they were not seedlings.  I had to go before them and then to the superintendent and convince them that they should be investigated.  Even then the judges refused to consider them until I had been sent for and had another tussle with them.  The fact was they were so much nicer and larger than any others, although there were a good many on exhibition, that everyone denied that they were seedling potatoes.  After a good deal of trouble I succeeded in keeping them from being thrown out, which of course meant first premium, - $30 - for them.

                                                                        Yours Truly,                                                                                                                                                      J.W. SMITH