The World's Potato Record

The World's Potato Record

David D. Rust, of Kanab, Utah, who was mentioned in the Improvement Era for July, writes us that he is not entitled to the compliment as a champion potato grower of the world as there set forth. The fact is, that President Charles R. Pugh, of the Eighty-fifth Quorum of Seventy, represented this organiza- tion and raised eight hundred twenty-five and a half bushels of potatoes on one acre of ground, which won the S1000 offered by the Church and broke the world's record. Brother Rust con- tinues: "I simply acted as agent in getting the report and veri- fication in shape. Of course, as a member of the Eighty-fifth quorum and associated with President Pugh in the council of that quorum, I share in the honor awarded, but as a potato grower, I regret to say, that I cannot make a claim."