--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 21 number: 11 published: 1918-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"The World's Potato Record,\" *Improvement Era* 21, no. 11 (September 1918): 979." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera21011unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera21011unse start_page: 979 end_page: 979 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera21011unse publication_year: 1918 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # 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."