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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1916)
MARKET NEWS SBiVlCE MADE ' tAPMIJOMH -p.... Ttniufina RatiI frrvm AlUanrfl Daily to 1933 Subscriber Durinff I V V filv I W V M V - W the Selling Season Federal .Government Put Money in Tanners' Pocket Nebraska 1 fast becoming noted tor Us fine Quality of potatoes and also for the quantity of potatoes ruined. Enpecially U ft la true' of western Nebraska and Box Butte tounty In particular. Thoro la a great and growing demand for the Box Butte county potatooa, rrore ao than for potatoes grown on Irrlgat d land. It la stated that irrigated potatoes do not keep aa well as do those grown In Box Butte county be cause the percentage of molHturo In them allows them to commence to decay and rot sooner. Valuable Information The raising of potatooa haa bo tome bo important in western Ne braska that the Uffloe of markets and Sural Organizations of tho United States Department of Agriculture this year maintained an office- In Al liance with an export In chargo to aive free information to ootato grow ers. This Information constated of dallv free notato butoltln and Rare She buying prices at hipping points, reports from all principal growing points. Nebraska ear-lot shipments lor each day, dividing them into dry land and irrigated sections, Ne braska diversions for oacb day, to gether with telegraphic reports from the large markets such aa Kansas City, Chicago, Sioax City, Omaha. Des Moines, St. Paal, Denver, St. Bouts, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Hous ton, and other Information of value to the grower and seller. ' Testimonial Received A. E. Prugh. the representative of the federal government who was sta tioned in Alliance and who main tained an office with County Agent Seidell at the court houso, toward the close of the selling season asked those who desired to receive the bul letin next year to fill out a form giv ing their opinion of the value of this service. Testimonials as to the val ve of the potato market news senr fc poured into the Alliance office In great numbers. Five Hundred Farmers Retort More than five hundred farmers rport that they have been benefitted to the extent of 25 to 60 cents a bushel on the selling pirco of their potatoes. The dally market news bulletins wer$ printed and distribut ed from September 21 to November 4, during which time tho prlce'offer-d-for potatoes by local buyers in western Nebraska advanced from 60 ems a ouBnei 10 ii.iu, aeanue a de cline in the central markets. A Herald reporter was privileged to look over the reports sent In by growers and gleaned from the total a lew of the expressions aa to the tuue of the market news service. one grower cays, "Tho market news service keeps tho buyers from supping up on me blind side of us farmers." Another says, "The buyers used to tell us the market now we tell the buyers." Still another sayc "We had the satisfaction of knowing what we ufht to get. or somewhere near It." "As a buyer, 1 knew what price to offer. As a seller, I knew what rwlce to ask." "I think I would have sold six ears at 70 cents Instead of getting 90 tents, $1.10 and $1.20 for them." "By receiving this report I got 30 per cent more for my potatoes." "As secretary and treasurer of the Farmers' Union I estimate the value to the farmers here will reach Into the thousands of dollars this fall alone.1 ' "I have received a better price, with no Increase te the consumer." There were any number of expres sions received along the same line, " which goes to show-that tho growers appreciate' what Uncle Sam Is doing for them and. desire to receive the service again next year. v 1'riiKh Knows Ilia nuslne A. E. Prugh, who was In charge of the Alliance Office of Markets. Is a man thoroughly experienced In Hhe work. , He opened the permanent branch of the "Office of Markets In Kansas City last . spring and had charge of that office from March un til August when he came to Alliance to establish the market news service for the benefit of western Nebraska potato growers. From Alliance he vent to Washington. D.-C, to report to the Office, of Markets and Rural Organisation for further work. The market news service was sent free to 193$ subscribers each day. This number was divided up among the towns in the following manner: Mailing libit of Potato Bulletin Alliance 188 1 1 1 49 2 Sunnyslde Mary -. . . . Kuderslake ( rawferd , Wolvlugton Houjst. . . 13 F.sther 1. ........ 20 Penper Creek . '. 3 Pine Kldge . . .' 9 Whitney 13 Chadron ....... '84 Maryland SI Belmont . . 37 6 5 17 4 .. Glen . . , Andrews Harmon Van Tassel, Wyp i-anaer, wyo. . Mcorcroft, Wyo. . . . Manville, Wyo Hudson, Wyo. . . . . Ijost Springs, Wyo. Lusk, Wyo. ...... Bcl'.e Fourch, S. D Newell, S. D, Burke. S. D. Ardmore, S. D. St. Onge. S. D. Colome, S. D. Bonesteel, S. D Pine Uldge, 8. D St. Charles, S. D Winner, S. D. , . Idaho Falls, Idaho Atkinson ....... Mcriaville ....... Hubbard Norrman Horsefoot Klrkwood O'Ncil Daunt tl : Chambers . . . . Dorsoy i'IIU(l Emmet . . Page .... Hllt6n Hire Battle Creek . . . Inman ........ Blvervlew Moomaw Dakota City Beaver Crossing Newport Edgar Chill OIUUI ..........,. Manchester l Franklin 12 4 . . Douqlas Halloch PRIL Jones was the worst, grouch In Home town, Perhaps It was enough to make a man grouchy, to have had parents with no more originality than to name! him "April" because j April happened to be the liiuuiu iu which he was born. Especial- ly since he had bad to go through life with the nickname "Ape," a natural ' shortening of bis longer name, hut one that was not so very complimentary. . Jet April had acquired funds, If fie hadn't made friends. And he had oth er, riches. Chief 'among them was Jane, a daughter, named, for her birth month, like her father. She was well named, too for she had roses In her cheeks, and eyes that were twin patches of blue sky. Nearly every- ( body preferred her to her sister May. Dan Meeker certainly did or to any one. , April? May and Jane were the whole Jones family. . As for Hometown, and the kind of town Hometown was, this Is the way Harry Dee described it when he went down to the city, and they asked : "Hometown Is the best little (own the Lord ever made, but there' ain't anybody else 'ever worked at It much. When he quit, everybody else laid off. Bayard Bridgeport Morrill . Mitchell Oerlng , Mlnatare 27 12 76 24 6 4 Scottsbluff 61 Chappell Walton Sidney Sextorp Potter .... Broadwater Redington. Lynn Colycr Angora . . Sutherland Keystone . Lewellen . Arapahoe Ogallala . Pax ton . . Lodgepole Torrlngton Bigsprlng 14 30 7 3 19 6 4 3 5 4 1 2 1 2 2 1 3 1 Oshkoeh .2 171 16 7 8 129 29 4 5 4 Hemingford Marple . . . Canton . . . . Dunlap ..v. Curly Rushville . . Clinton Billing Albany Peters White Clay Gordon .', . . Grayson . . . Hay Springs Kimball . . . Dlx Itushnell . . Valentine . , Kilgore . . . Harmony . v 15 Crookston 14 Nensel 10 Cody Merrlman . Wood Lake Ainsworth Johnstown Long Pine 1 Raven , Pike . . Midvale Altai ., 8 137 1 .93 65 11 3 46 15 was a misjudged man. The lioptist pastor saw them through the bauk window and, as May taught in tlie P.s.p Ust Sunduy school and June sang In the choir, he decided that It wmild be no more than right to drop In and lisve a talk with their father and ueutlon the Thanksgiving services. "The absence of our leading citizen." snld the pantor. "would throw cold wa ter on the whole service." "Well, a little cold water ain't going to hurt a Baptist, Is Itr asked April, with something that approached a chuckle. And, not quite so pleasantly, lie said he would see. April Jones was a suspicious per son ; and that night when Dan asked him If he wouldn't come to the Con gregational service, he roared : "What are you fellows, up tot I ain't no heathen, that you have to start missionarylng met" It took a little time to convince Mm that there was no conspiracy of cordV allty against him. Suddenly the old fellow got up, raised one finger at arm's length above his head, and said: "I tell you what I'm going to do : I ain't going to any of 'em, and I'm go ing to 'enr all r And with this para-1 jloxicnl pronouncement he stomped off , to bed. j .Next morning April' Jones sept the cashier to ask the three clergymen to meet him at the bunk. - "I'm much obliged to you all for your ' Invitations." he sold, while the Cflngre gatlonalist looked ot him mystified, and the Methodist and Baptist looked at each other, "but 1 can't be in no three places at once. That shows you the ruinous effect of competition. Now, I'm golnp to suggest this: Let's Open up the sHtool auditorium and have one big, bnx .'-up Thanksgiving service and Invite ll.. vhole townl" - i "And we ll have three choirs' get to- getner up at Junes house tomorrow night," suggested Dan, "and practice each other's hymns I" . So one Idea suggested another, and before Thursday arrived the whole town had been Invited, and had agreed to come. THE HANDLING AND MARKETING OF POTATOES IN NORTH AND. SOUTH ffnited States Has Two Definite Crops of Potatoes Every Year- Treatment of These Crops Differs Considerably Eight Methods of Selling Spuds Henry Llsco Montevista, Colo. . . . Yockey AfcGrew Grand Junction, Colo Nort-hport , . . . Normal '. , . T I KMln MIIIVVIII . . . . . College View Bethany Broken Bow . Ravenna Kansas City, Mo Doulphan Dunbar t Elm Creek Grand Island . . . Washington, D. C. Moonhead, Minn. Irving, Kansas . . Brewster ....... Nebraska City . . Sutton South Auburn .. Mullen ........ Crete Beatrice Hastings ....... Flats Blair , Mayflower . . . . , Mead Omaha Waltbill Seward , Norfolk Chicago, Laclede. Mo. Llnneus, Mo. Aledo. 111. . . Exeter Holdrege . . Berwyn . ........ 1 2 20 6 5 . 9 1 . 1 2 4 . 1 1 1 4 1 1 Platte 10 III . - 1 1 1936 114 26 North Ashby Plalnvlew ' , Wallace Brook field. Mo Bradahaw Weleetka. Okla Ulysses . , . . TOTAL Mai Hug LUt by Count Je Following is the mailing list by counties, states, etc., and the per centage of those in each section who were interested enough to answer the questloneere giving their opinion of the service and requesting the bul letln next year. Those who have re quested will receive the bulletin if the branch office of markets Is open ed again No. Pet Miscellaneous states 24 66 Miscellaneous Nebraska ...176 . 64 South Dakota 21 5 April Jones 8aid He'd Ses. He give us a navigable river, 'but It ain't never been navigated by anything much but bullheads and canoes. He give us a high hill to shut off the west wind, but there's some of us that ain't been to the top of It yet. He give us good soil, but we're keepln' It more or less of a secret.- He give os a lot of natural advantages, and quite a bunch, of nutnral loafers, one of whom 1 guess I am which. Fue ls, he give us a darned sight more than we ever give ourselves. Six days be Inhored and made Hometown; and It ain't never hud any next week since." Of course, it wasn't as bad as that. Dan Meeker, who had been a tent-boy with a Chautauqua last summer, came home to realise' that Hometown bud bout the best ieop)e In the world In It industrious In their work, honest In taeir dealings and kind to their neigh bors. But It hadn't any navigable river, Harry to the contrary notwithstand ing. The old mill dam below, long out of use since the sawmill was gone, but still in existence, bucked the river np for a mile and bred cauoes and bull heads. "Three squares a day have come so easy to most of us here," said Dan to himself, "that we've kind of forgot that there Is anything else." - ' As Thanksgiving approached, the three local pastors began to think about their Thanksgiving services. The choirs were rehearsed, and certain Thanksglviug sermons were dusted off. looked over and re-written. One day the minister of the Methodist church said to his wife: "There's April Jones. He. has more to be thankful for than any of us, as far as this world's guxls go. Wouldn't It be a fine thing to get Ape out to our Thanksgiving meeting?" His wife immediately said It would and she couldn't help wondering If It might not ultimatelx have some effect on her husband's back salary -although It was a wurldly thought So that very afternoon ber husband culled at the bank and Invited April Jones. April Jones said be'd see and he was so decent about It that the tula isttsr told Lis wife tba.t Aoril Jones THANKSGIVING PRAISE. For suminrr'a bloom and autumn's blight. For bending wheat vand blasted maize. For health and sickness, Lord of light. And Lord of darkness, bear our praise! We trace to thee our Joys and woes To thee of cauaea still the cause We thank thee that thy hand bestows; We bleaa thee that thy love wiitidrawa We bring no sorrows to thy throne; - We come to thee with no complaint. In providence thy will be done. And that la sacred to the saint. . Here, on this blest Thanksgiving night. We mtse to thee our grateful vole; Tor what thou doeet. Lord, is right; And. thun bvllevlng. we rejoice. THANKSGIVING DAY TW we're at peace wiih all die world Safe in our due and our home That unto (his, our favored land. Such gift, with all it blessing come Thai men go not to war and deaov That women do not fearful brood By suoou hearths for dear ones gone. v- We dank Thee. Giver of ail good That no ambitious strife b our TKu lust of conquest does not BSriA This mighty nation's inmost heart, . Thit w" sbhor to burn and kiU. Thai weaker nations we protect V Fight but lo insMffieir wronging ocas K And only comes to make aSem free, a ; WthrtlwTheCodof leveandpesoe. g That In the stress around ui now, ttt Ae feel our hearts wiih oirv thn& & And haste to heal the wounded man K To bush die child and woman's sob. $ v Thai we u eager still to share Jij The goods that heap our stores again. t 0 W ith those who have but us to help, Jj g We thank Thee, Father of ail men! JJ & ft In order tnat the present largo loss es of potatoes may be eliminated and that conditions in the potato grewlng Industry may be bettered In general, growers should exercise more ense In digging and handling the tubers, should work toward the establishment and strict observance of grades, and should carefully study marketing conditions.' This is the advice of specialists of the, Office of Markets and Rural Organization of the United States department of ag riculture In a recent publication, farmers' Bulletin 753, "Comirerclal Handling, Grading and Marketing of Potatoes." Early and Late Potatoes - There are two definite craps of po tatoes In this country each year: The southern early, or "new" potatoes, which are perishable, and .the north ern late potatooa, which are only omi-perishable. The treatment of thr-r.fl eropn must differ considernbly. In the south digging begins in Flor '1a, Texas and southern Louisiana In May and is done mostly by forks and plows. In some ot the hotter sec tions it has been found advisable to plow up the potatoes In the late ev ening and pick them early the fol lowing morning. Picking into rec tangular, open-slatted crates. '.the slats have rounded edges, ha been found most satisfactory. The pota toes should not be hauled loose in wagons, since such treatment may bruise them seriously-. For. ship ment, the southern potatoes are packed in hampers and double-headed barrels in Florida, and In barrels with burlap covers In other states along the Atlantic coast. In Texas sacks are used. Grading for tho southern potato crop has been rather extensively adopted, with good results, the grad ed potatoes bringing better prices. Mechanical graders are used in some sections. The marketing of the southern crop is effected largely through cash buyers at shipping points. Shipments are also made through distributors and on consignment to agencies In distant markets. In some sections, it was found, co-operative associa tions of growers handle the market ing, achieving successful results. One of the largest of such associations operates along the eastern shore of Virginia.- This association sold over six million dollars' worth of potatoes In 1914. This organization, like others of Its kind, grades strictly and makes use of definite brands for the best grades of potatoes. It insists that the potatoes bearing Its brand not for lees of life, but foe more of It, and the courage, the' fortitude, the strength, and the persistence to meet Its dlilkultietr and continue its 'course undaunted by disaster and unspoiled by "success. We arc'thaukful for Character, not charity, and for Iron wills that have not been broken by the Inevitable! From the Sunday Magazine. is an Old Institution. - Deplte popular opinion to the con trary, Thanksgiving day as an insti tution is not peculiarly American. For history shows that all ancient na tions used to celebrate some feast of a thanksgiving nature, while most of the tribes of our American Indian! had a big gatherlug and a harvest feast years before the white man ever set foot on the shores of the svw world. By the Greeks snd Romans the fes tival days la honor ot the goddess of I ngrlcultare were times of rustle sport. of processions through the fields and the decorating of the home with remits and flowers. The people of Egypt en joyed a time of feasting after gather ing In their harvests and laid the fruits of the year on the altar of the Goddess 1st a. Sioux county 35 46 Morrill County : 67 4 5 Scotts Bluff county ...... .160 40 Brown county 167 36 Dawes county 232 32 Box iJutte county ...394 31 Kimball county 69 30 Wyonlng 21 30 Sheridan county 414 29 Cherry county 104 26 Cheyenne county 63 23 Total, 1936; average 36. The Thankful Spirit. Cultivate the thankful spirit It will be to thee s perpetual feast. There Is, or ought to be, with ns no such thing as small mercies; all are great, because the least are unde served. Indeed, a really thankful heart will extract motive for gratitude from everythlug.-T-J. U. Macduff. . John McCoy, M. D. Offices and Hospital Reddish Block' Telephone 81 w w m Don't send out ot town for you? typewriter paper, ribbons, carbon pa per and other office supplies. 'The Herald carriea a good stock of fresb goods at all times. shall be bright, free from second growth, disease; and other defects. Scabby, worm-eaten, or sunburnt po tatoes are barred. Associations op erating on the same general plan ex ist in most of the southern states. The Northern Potato Crop Northern, or late potatoes, ate dug in August and September. Forks are used to a certain extent for dig ging this crop, but most of the acre age Is dug by plows and digging ma chines. For the successful use of the latter, soil conditions must be good. Under favorable conditions the use of such machines has boea found profitable. -There Is muck loss from bruising potatoes In al types of digging. Deep plowing wltk plows and machines should elimin ate most of such losses. Picking in the north Is mostly gtr hand, but some combination digging and picking machines are in ue. It the potatoes aer to bo graded as picked, growers should carefully In struct pickers in the work, since tBs inclusion of a few diseased, cut, sr defective potatoes is sufficient to dis count an entire shipment, the selling value being largely determined by the poorest tubers in the lot rat bar than the best. Even the lees perls t able northern crop may be Injured by hauling from the field loose la wagons. This practice usually de volves subsequent handling, often With shovels and scoops, which far ther bruises the potatoes. A .good practice, say specialists of the de partment, Is to pick the potatoes Into open-slatted crates and haul the fill ed receptacles to Btorage or gradinc houses or to cars. Marketing; . Marketing conditions in the norft differ widely from those in tUs south, since about three-fourths f the crop is stored. Local buyers, warehousemen, and distributors are the chief factors In marketing the northern crop. The buleltln already mentioned lists eight methods of selling that growers may adost. There are: In the field, for cash by the load at the car, to cash traveling buyers In carlots. to local warehouse men, through distributors, by wire, on consignment to a broker or mer chant, or through co-operative mar keting organizations. The buleltus also discusses the outlets for distrib utors and methods of railway -billing. Copies of Farmers' Bulletks No. 753 may be had free on applica tion to the United States department of agriculture so long as the depart ment's supply lasts. MR. POTATO GROWER YOTJB, UNCLE SAMUEL HAS A NEW AND VALUABLE BULLETIN ON POTATbES FOR YOU TREE OF CHARGE You, Mr. Potato Gvower. Your Uncle Samuel, tbis iH, the great government of the United States of America, through the Office of Markets and Rural Organization of the United States Department of Agriculture, has written and had print ed in the government printing office at Washington, I). O., a valuable Farmers' Bulletin entitled, "Commercial Handling, Grading, and Marketing of Potatoes." It in new having been issued this month, and yon may have it absolutely . free of charge by writing the Office of Markets and Rural Organiza--tion, Washington, D. C, and asking for Farmers' Bulletin 753. This bulletin cohki'Mr of 40 pages and is illustrated It i a valuable work and every grower and especially com mercial growers and shippers of the United States who are in terested in the moat desirable methods used in handling and marketing the crop should get busy and write for the bulletin at once. You can't buy it but your Uncle Sam will give it to you. You pay for it and are entitled to its benefits- if you don't get this bulletin, Mr. Potato Grower, y6u anr"yoB only are. to blaiue , - - -r AUK POTATOES DESTROYED TO luA.D THE PRICE VP? "That potatoes are being plowed under in the fields, fed to hogs, dumped iu the river, and otherwise destroyed to hold the present price Mp are reports that are being publis hed iu the newspapers 'generally," says the Cm una Trade Exhibit and continues, "When these reports are slated down to facts there is usually found to be no fact there, merely some wild rumor that Is started by someone who supposed such things were being done. It was recently re ported that a good many carloads of potatoes were dumped in the rive, the scare heads in the papers leading one to believe that such was the case, but when oue re;id the entire article it was admitted that the potatoes Wight have been condemned by health authorities tor one reason or another. Since high prices are get ting higher on most all articles of food and clothing people aro ready to believe most any ktnd of a story, and it all makes It harder for the re taller to 'get advances, because peo ple are always more or less convinc ed that the retailer gets, an unreas onable profit when prices are high. ticultural socieiy for a program lor Nebraska potato growers at the uni versity farm, Lincoln, Jan. 18, is conection with - Organiied Agricul ture week. J. C. Milward, secretary of the Wisconsin Potato Growers' Associa tion and one of the most experienced organizers of the potato Industry la the United States, is to be one of the speakers at this meeting. A repre sentative of the United States de partment of agriculture and promin ent growers of the state, will also speak. FA KM lulls IN CONVENTION , OWOSK FXWD EMUAIUiO POTATO GIlOWKItS MEET Plans are being made by the col lege of agriculture and the state bor- Omaha, Nebr., A deciHlon to fight the proposed embargo on grain was unanimously adopted by the Farmers Co-Operativo Grain and Live Stock State Association in session iri Oma ha last week. A petition was for warded lo congress expressing the sentiment of the Nebra&kn grain men The decision wus accompsSed with positive expressions of Nebnisku grain men. This subject and that of car short age were the principal ones d-lBeuas-ed by more than 600 farmers, the largest convention of the Association ewr held. All officers woro re-eloct-ed and Omaha wus selwted fur the 1917 meeting.