Show POTATO ACT HELD OKEH FOR BUYER POCATELLO Idaho Declaring that it is impossible for tor the potato act to advance prices more than 75 cents per hundred weight or 11 cents per peck a communication from the National Potato association association tion has been received in Pocatello The average adult consumer buys nine and one half pecks of potatoes es esa a year in cities of Chicago and Milwaukee Milwaukee Mil Mu- waukee and at this rate the utmost the act will viII cost the consumer is in 12 months according to the national association bulletin a n. copy of at which was was was- sent to E. E S. S Harper vice president and general manager of the Idaho Packing corporation B Benefit Seen The communication also saw that the consumer consumer would get better grade potatoes It said Because of at the fact the grower grower will naturally sell seU only his best grade grado of potatoes to keep within his allotment Further it states that most farmer farmers farm farm- er ers era are rc of the opinion that a tax of 75 cents per hundred weight Is to tobe tobe tobe be assessed on all potatoes produced or sold and that price of potatoes will be lifted sky high after the measure is in operation Only on Surplus Neither the farmer nor the consumer consumer con con- con con- sumer aumer pays any tax on a single pound of potatoes sold normally or c consumed normally normany in the United States the communication continued con con- It is only when there is a surplus of potatoes over and above the quantity allotted to the various states and to the thousands of producers producers producers pro pro- that the tax applies The purpose e of at the law is Js to counteract the tho deadening effect of unneeded and unwanted supplies on the price which the grower Is entitled entitled en en- titled to for his proportionate share of ot crop The principle is the same as our tariff system which protects American labor and American industry against ruinous foreign competition ri |