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STEADY MARKET FOR SPUDS
MEANS A STEAOY SUPPLY
OF POTATOES IN AMERICA
Growers Loath to Plant Tubers When Crop Failures and Fluctuating
Prices Mean Bankruptcy; Praise For Germany
is Tiring
Never was the potato so much in
the puMic eye as at this moment.
The failure of the 1916 crop in Ger
many almost meant disaster for that
nation Britain is looking to the
1917 crop from her newly broken
grass lands, in addition to her regu
lar crop, to make good for any food
shortage this year, says Lord Ogilvy
In an article appearing in the Denver
Post.
Here is America the shortage of
frotAioes coincident with high priced
Sour has for the first time driven
home to the people the Importance
and necessity of a regular supply,
that this supply will never be entire
ly regular in sufficient quantity for
aU the needs of the people every year
until some provision has been made
to care for the surplus, has been
preached until most people are tired
of the subject.
However, the fact remains unal
terable that growers cannot afford to
take the risk of gluts and markets
below cost, which recur with fre
quency until some market is sup
plied for the surplus.
Dried potatoes, starch and the
inanufactiir nf alcohol to care for
OTer-supply will cause growers to
grow enough for a big table supply
every year. That and nothing else.
In many districts, potato crops,' like
fruit, can be Insured by spraying,"
and by nothing else. Yet in both
cases the recurrent lo wpriced years
will break a grower who continues
to spray, because market prices are
not adequate to meet the cost. On
many farms Becd must be renewed at
least every second year at a cost ev
en In normal timeB of from $16 to
S20 or more an acre in addition to
other costs, and only a fair and sta
hle market price will recoup the
grower for this and other outlays.
The fact that they are likely to
face a glut at market time causes
many to refuse to take a chance. In
fact, except in the refular potato
growing districts where everything Is
at hand, potatoes are a side Issue
with other crops as staples.
Contract crops, such as beets, are
sprayed as needed. The best Beed is
furnished aR a matter of course, and
all these expenses are considered as
part of the legitimate price of sugar
and a tariff collected by the govern
ment to make it a paying Industry,
whilst all other crops must stand on
their own bottom and shift for them
selves, blow high, blow low.
I am a little tired of hearing the
German farmer praised in compari
'aon to the American farmer by a lot
(of glib townsmen who are too lazy
to correct their ignorance. In fact,
when I say I am a little tired you
can read it that I use thlB expression
because what I really want to say
wouldn't fit our Sunday paper or ev
en the slightly less highly ethical
daily edition, says Lord Ogilvy.
There has been an Immense pota
to drying industry developed in Ger
many. The potato flour we use
comes from there and also the finer
starches and gums, all developed by
the potato manufacturers. The gov
ernment not only takes care of the
surplus, but provides a steady mar
ket for Immense quantities of coarse
potatoes which, tho not of the high
est table quality, are just as valua
ble food at a pinch. The govern
ment pays more than 4 a ton prem
ium for potatoes for alcohol. To
provide a market for this alcohol,
which It does not really need, the
government burns it for lighting in
railroad stations, not because it is
the most economical or the best read
ing light, but because H Is a war
measure, just as much as are the
strategically built railroads of Ger
many. However, leaving aside the gov-
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Deaver is tlie new town for the 20,(100 m-rcs of the (ioveiimieiit 's
irrigated lands in the Basin on the BurliugtOfi'l main line just as!
Of the iuolol irrigated locality about Powell, Wyo. Deaver will be
the trading center for over :00 farms ami will prosper from the
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growing town. The first unit of 12,000 acres of Government irrigated
free homestead land will probably he offered July 1st,- 20 year
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S B. Howard, Immigration Agent, C.B & Q R.R.
1004 Famam St., Omaha, Nebr.
ernment and war measures, Mr bus
iness and capital In Germany have
re i the development of ag
riculture in the only way In which
business peopls, other than farmers,
can aid agriculture tftat Is. by fur
nishing a market and constantly ln
n Of tot raw mater
ial by making the product of stable
and high usefulness.
With Ihe exception of the manu
facture of some corn products our
manufa I urers have been asleep and
allow other countries to steal a mar
ket from right under their noses.
ryiep the American
farmer because be was not ready at
all tlm es to supply the demand with
crops that fluctuate so much In their
season yield that the same acreage
I " or a famine.
Given a stable demand the supply
of food will be forthcoming year by
year given Inefficient markets and
transportation handicaps that now
hamper the farmer, there will be
feasts and famines even as when Jos
eph dwelt with Mrs. Potlphar.
Anyone can collect the local hap
pening from a newspaper, retell the
town and neighborhood gossip, and
do as a friend of mine does, moke
several carbon copies of such nint. r
lal and dispatch one to each of his
correspondents. Hut the artist does
not do that. He writes his letter as
If he was addressing his frletnd faoo
to face. He makes the Ink and pap
er express him, his thoughts, feel
ings and eu.otlons as related to (he
friend he Is addressing. And when
that friend receives this letter he has
a glimpse Into the writers true pers
onality, a brief visit with him as man
to man.
I often wonder why more people
do not try to become such artists, why
they don't cultivate the art of becom
ing themselves and not a forced, con
ventional thing. The world would
be a mtreh better place then, fori
friends could span the miles which
separate them and make their part
Ine R hlesned thine hnonnan nf Hn
real letters It called Into being.
H--H"H"t-t
HEAD STUFFED FROM !
CATARRH OR A COLD J
fSays Cream Applied In Nostrils t
ftnon. A iw Suva mm Dl.kl IT T
I Mr. Business Man, on your nexi
trip take along some artistically
printed business cards. The experts
Is light and they are business getter
The Herald's Job printing edpart
ment will turn them out promptly
Phone 3 40 and we will call.
Instant rrlirf no waiting. Your
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pasMgea of your head clear and you can
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struggling for breath at night; jour
cold or catarrh disappears.
Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream
Palm from your druggist now. Apply
t little of this fragrant, antiseptic,
aling cream in yoar nostrila It pen
etrates through every air passage of the
bead, soothes the inflamed or swollen
mucous membrane and relief eons in
Untly. It's just flns. Don't stay stufted-up
with a cold or nasty catarrh.
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By
ADAM I JAR
Gci1 whiz, but the world do move.
Here's Warren J. Jones, who not so
long ago visited Alliance, and who
some fifteen years ago was a partner
with A. P. Brown In a barber shop
here, a moneyed man now. Why, he's
got 'so domed much money that bo
could buy all the barber shops in Al
liance, close them all up fir a year,
and pay the barbers a handsome
wage for thoir time while tbe shops
were closed, and never miss It. He
made his wad in oil. But listen,
friend, Just because Jones did It, is
no sign that you can do it on a few
shares of stuff you know nothing
about. Jones was on the ground
floor, he was on the Job, he got his
Information lirst hand. I don't
know a dern thing about oil and I
don't imagine you do either, but just
take a plung you may know more
when you're through.
I was just wondering when I read
about spuds selling at something over
five bones in Denver, what has be
come of the old fashioned man who
used to spend a few days in the sea
son hauling out the surplus potatoes
that had accumulated in his cellar,
so they wouldn't sprout. If his son
has any spuds left I guess he is em
ploying heavily armed guards to pro
tect his premises from food rioters.
Saw a fly in our house the othear
day. We swatted it, which reminds
me that its about time for the an
nual fuss about "swat the fly."
o
Yes, this is also the season when
the "wish to sell in order to buy a
larger car" advertisements begin to
lure the motor suckers.
o
It may be because they have been
lost in the mass of other important
mall which daily reaches us, but I
really have not received a single lith
ographed circular from a summer re
sort as yet.
It looks to me there days like most
any fool can make money but it takes
a man with brains to keep the filthly
stuff after he's got it.
o
"It's the dealers and producers'
fault."
"No, its the housewives fault."
'Wrong, its the fault of the rail
roads." "No, you're all wrong its the war."
I could till psgfl after page with
such quotations from the various
authorities who are assigning causes
for the high cost of living. You
have heard them, each airing his pet
theory showing off his favorite opin
ions. It reminds me very strikingly of a
IS me I used to play when I was quite
small called, "Button, button, who's
got the button?"
Verily, who has the button in this
particular case? I would like to see
someone make a sane and moderate
attempt to Hnd it.
o
Many persons can write k1 stor
ies. A goodly number can writ,
poems and plays A small group,
including myself, can write good edi
torials, if this is a sample. But the
people who can write good letters are
as Bcarcc as hens teeth.
I do not mean business letters. I
mean personal letters, the intimate
human correspondence between
friend and friend which makes the
mails something more than a MM
mercial carrier. Such a letter is a
work of art.
BOYS -YOUR CHANCE
TO VOLUNTEER
KnliKtJiuHitN in Regular Army and
Nuttoiutl Gunrd to be Only for the
War Period
Tho United States government has
formally recognized the sacrifice that
thousands of men are making in their
answer to the call to the colors. The
announcement is made that from
this time forward all enlistments in
the army and the national guard will
be for the war period only.
flerg. Charles H. Booth In charge
of the Alliance r-crultlng station for
the regular am v Is In receipt of a
telegram from Adjutant General H.I
P. McCain, eated at Washington, D. i
C, which states that
It Is the policy of the war de
partment to discharge from ser
vice at the termination of th
emergencvy alt men who Have
enlisted in the regular army
since the declaration of W'ir, or
who now enlist. This order al- I
so applies to enlistments In the
national guard." i
The war departim . i 'ma made It
evident that It does not . cf to
muster Into service volunt r regi
ments as a whole. Hecrultlnc there
fore, should be greatly stimulate I, in
the opinion of Serg. Booth, who an
tlclpated an immediate response to
this urgent call.
Serueaiit Booth stated thai in view
of the fact that enllstmentes were
now for the war period only that he
expected to see a record breaking
period of enlistments. He said,
"the uverage man would rather en
list in the regular army under train
ed officers, where the equipment Is
plenty, than to enlist In a volunteer
company or regiment, and especially
so when the conditions of enlistment
in both are identical."
braska roads, even with business fall
ing off and the dally tonnage totals
decreasing rapidly wit li the r wing
of the busy seasonon the fnrm Not
withstanding there Is no rush to mar
ket with grnln from the fnrmn many
elevators are still demanding car
they can't get, Chicago reports that It
Is difficult to get eoal for railroad and
factory supply purposes and the lum
ber mills are complaining of a lack
of transportation equipment for thoir
business.
The Alliance Herald Is $1.60 per
year. Issued 62 times. Runs from
12 to 24 paries per Issue Subscribe
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OARS STILL VERY SCARCE
Cars aro sit lit very ncarce on Ne-
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That Bring Business!
Alliance Herald Classified Ads cost the adver-
a
tiser but little, and get results. They "bring
home the bacon" for the person who has some
thing to sell or buy, something to rent, or in
fact, any business proposition to offer the pub-lie.
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Stock Cattle For Sale Spring Delivery
We will have a large number of
White Face yearlings, two and
three year old steers for Sale. May
first delivery, shipped on any road
freight paid to destination. These
cattle are good color and strong ages.
Wa have on our ranch 12 miles north of Lakeside, Nebraska, 800
two year old steers of same quality as the ones we will have for
sale for Spring delivery. These steers are on full feed of hay and
can be seen at any time and are also FOR SALE.
Anyone interested in purchasing stock cattle please correspond with
Cox Jones-Van Alstine Co. Skaaha
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