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.
