Report to the Michigan Legislature on the Feasibility of Using the Pulp and Chicory Dryers in the State to Dry the Surplus Potato Crop - Couverture rigide
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Hour. The matter of proper machinery to prepare the potatoes for the di-yers, has been taken up with Jaclison Church, of Saginaw; Ruggles-C oles Engineering Company, 50 Church Street, New Yorlc City; The F. D. Cummer Son Company, Cleveland, Ohio; Buffalo Foundry Machine Company, Bufifalo, N. Y.; and E. Salieh Co., Consulting and Constructing Engineers, 1602 Monadnock Building, Chicago, 111. Extracts have been taken from a report of the Michigan Dairy and Food Department, the Rural New Yorker, of Ncav York City, and several Consular and Trade Reports. Whether the potato, which was first cultivated in Peru early in the sixteenth century, was discovered by the Spaniards or tlie English is not generally known, and so far as this investigation is concerned is of little moment. The fact, however, seems to be settled that in 1585 or 1580 potato tubers were brought from what is now North (arolina to I reland on the return of the colonists sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh, and were cultivated on Sir Walter sestate near Cork. Like all other new food products, it had its enemies and for many years was not looked upon with much favor as an article of food. Years of cultivation and proper selection, so as to U oduce varieties that would contain ingredients necessary to make them desirable for food, have accomi)lished much and placed the potato in an enviable position among food products of this country. The following excerpt from a report of tbe Michigan Dairy and Food Department gives us a good idea of the value of the potato as an article of food: THE POTATO AS A FOOD. The potato is truly a most remarkable product. It conlains within ils ase)tic covering a rich store of one of the most easily digestible of all forms of starcb. The observations of Mosse, Van Noorden and others have shown most conclusively that the starch of the potato is more easily digested and approju-i
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