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Show THE PROVO POST WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1923 Potatoes Growers Join In Nationwide Pool The farmers of the United States are about to undertake the marketing of the countrys largest food crop, in number of pounds consumed. With the organization o the Maine Potato Growers Cooperative association just completed, there has been taken the first step in mar- keting the nations 350,000,000-bushpotato crop entirely through farmers cooperative selling organizations commonly directed and controlled by one central body. Sixty per cent of the farmers who grow Maine's great crop of tubers already have accepted membership and signed contracts with the Maine association. They have agreed to send every bushel raised on their farms to the warehouses of the association for sale by it. A group of potato growers met recently in Rochester and undertook the organization of a similar cooperative association among the farmers of New York State. The active work of organization will begin after the present growing season and the association is expected to be ready to begin selling by the time the 1924 crop is out of the ground. MODELED ON SAME LINES With the 19 24 crop it is also expected that associations modeled on the same lines will be ready to function in New Jersey. Virginia, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, Idaho, Colorado and Utah. All of these growers cooperative associations will be linked up in a central body, which will direct the sales policy, the details of marketing, regulate the flow of the potatoes to market and designate the markets to which they are to go and generally control the distribution everywhere as a protection for the farmer, The Maine association and the 'groups being organized in other potato producing states are all modeled after the Sapiro plan on which similar cooperatives in tobacco, cotton, rice and other lines of farm produce have been built during the last two or three years. Their object is, of course, to increase the return on his crop to the farmer but as Aaron Sapiro, oganizer of the - California Fruit. Exchange and father of the plan explained, not necessarily at the expense of the consumer. The speculators and middlemen are the especial targets of the cooperatives. el v FORCED THEM TO ACT It was to Mr. Sapiros office in New York that G. Herbert Foss, secretary of the Maine association and Edward W. Martin, county agent of Aroostock county, came with word J Glasses at Wholesale scheme, conditions which are said to be typical pf the situation in which the potato farmers throughout the durcountry have found themselveswhich ing the last three years and have forced them to look about for some way out. Like growers everywhere, the Maine farmers found themselves unable to grow sufficiently large crops to supply the demand during the war ,by examination $3.00 Illustrations jOjt CopyngKi -- pany in the state. With Anderberg, Inc. 36 West Center Phone 52 FURNITURE AND PIANO MOVING GUARANTEED Get our prices on town work and long distance trips. PROVO TRANSFER & TAXI CO. 105 W. Center or the firms that maintain large central warehouses in the producing district, are the men against whom the farmers complain most. The situation caused by their methods of doing business is the principal reason for the cooperative being organized. 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Ilf tialf amt half partner dbev're n! s t .v D a vv a a. e .He it lie! in he - M Right. said Rateliffe humbly. av of hem a N,)iip brea or '.md dealer Site had reserved one of the poles, for what reason soon became apparent. in odds and ends; owns a couple of Each sack was too heavy to 'e car- ratty old schooners besides that old ried by one person, so she slung one ketch. Wonder what lie s doin down to the middle of the pole, and they here? 'urse him He's aider (ark, most likely, said started for the beach, Caleb and Mavbe hes got a smell of the Judo. Joshua fashion, Rateliffe in front. It was horrible work. They had to Wreck. Maybe. replied Satan. keep step, which was difficult; owing It seemed to Rateliffe all at once to the bushes, the going was bad. When they reached the beach he sat that the old wreck lying on that un- down. Unused to hard work and un- seen reef might have been likened to used to the climate, he was sweating a carcass in the desert, and that he and exhausted. Jude looked compara- was watching the gathering of the vultures to a feast. tively cool and fresh. Satan fell into meditation for a "Now then. Lazybones! said Jude. momem. Then he resumed: Then she collapsed also, sitting down arms Thais what the cuss has been doround with her knees up and her in. lies been on the hunt for me, them. Site seemed to have forgotten the same as Cark was, only for different sack, Rateliffe, everything as she reasons. Now you wait and see. Whats the name of Clearys boat? sat whistling dreamily between her asked Rateliffe as he watched the ap! THOMAS DEMOS, Mgr. 403 West Center Shoes also Made to Order Buy a Homesite in Steel City Your pleasure ' The Economy Shoe Rep. Co. $1.50 Ladies fine grade Silk Hose, pair j. 20c Mens Arrow Collars We are always under market, 2 for25c 35c Mens Wash Ties Good quality, low price 24c 60c Mens Rubber Belt 49c 10c Water Glasses We sell them for 8c Ladies, call and see our House Dresses, just arrived. 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He had trod on her dignity treated her like a child, that Is to say like a W Bert THE MAIN CAFE ;.r niicv i.i You anyone "Fooling I And who started it? asked he. Jude made no reply. She turned and went off to the cache, lugged the sacks a bit more away from the opening, and started to put the poles across. When he joined her on the work she wouldnt i s She was evidently mortally Down pay their way through school. Among the conservative Into the new cooperative them are tuning pianos,are watching absent, children while parents selling salad dressing, house painting, grave digging and dance hall bouncer. Phone 85 by straight, and with Satan hes straight with them. All the same, you look out with Satan. He's got some plan about you, sure. What sort of a plan is it, do you think, Jude? Lord knows. Nothing o harm you, anyway ; maybe its to go shares in some deal I dunno. The shrill notes of a bo'sn's whistle came over the water. She sprang to her feet. Satans form appeared at the rail of the Sarah. He was making movements with his arm as though signaling. and Jude flung up an arm in answer. Then, shading her eyes, .she looked seaward. Whats up? asked Rateliffe. Gome on! said Jude. She seized the sack, called on him to help her, and between them they ran it down to the water's edge. Then they got the dingh.v afloat, the sack on board, and started. What's up? again asked Kat'liffe, as they rowed. Sail, said Jude. He had seen nothing, perhaps beon the water cause of the or because he had not looked In the right direction. The sensitiveness of the Tylers to the approach of strangers and their hawklike vision struck him as belonging almost to the uncanny. Satan had rigged a tackle, and without a word uttered the sack was got aboard and below. Then and not till then did Satan speak. Its (deary, said he. Jude took the old glass he had been using, and examined the stranger, then she handed it to Rateliffe. He turned it on the fleck of sail, which sprang gigantic into the form of a big boat, heating up for the afternoon sunlight the late island, flashing back from the foam at the bows. forefoot and her foam-we- t Who is deary? asked he. handing you. ! she. that the organization had already and amity. signed up 6 0 per cent of the potato Odd occupations are followed by farmers in that state. They deat various universities to students had which scribed the conditions brought Easters n by Robert M. McBride & said Rateliffe. Now youre talkin, said Jude. She lowered the rope again and snatched it up suddenly, bringing with it another oath. But the third time he was too Quick for her. Then as he came swarming np with skinned knuckles and rage In his heart, she bolted. He chased her, dodging here and there among the bushes, then he chased her round a tree, caught her, and. In his anger and irritation somehow, kissed her. The perfectly amazing smack on the face that followed was revelation ; it also knocked him off his balance so that he sat down as though cut of at the knees. She stood for a moment, frightened at her handiwork. Then, as he pulled himself together, she drew away a step. What alls you? asked she. Rateliffe, sitting up with his hand to the top of his bend, groaned. She drew a step closer. Then she saw that he was laughing, and drew a step back. Get up, and dont be fooling, said L) DR. PETERSON Phone 665 n, moved. Ivwin Mycw examined, and get your glasses for the same price you would have to pay any wholesale optical com- ALL DEALERS SPECULATORS And the dealers, all of them speculators, according to Mr. Foss, whether they are the big commission merchants in Boston or New York, eye-strai- Absolute Results Guaranteed. eyes JVORK H.DeVere Stacpoole A Romance of the Bahamas You pay $3.00 to have your years and the year immediately following the armistice. Potatoes kept mounting in price until in 1919 they were selling for $8 and $9 a barrel on the farm and the wholesalers were getting $18 and $20 a barrel in New York and other large eastern cities.' There .was a good profit to be made in growing potatoes at that price, a very good profit, and more acreage was planted. So the 1919 crop, instead of producing the aver-ag- e yield for the state of between 20,000,000 and 25,000,000 bushels actually jumped to about 37,000,000 bushels. Some Maine communities are still tresuffering from the blight of that reamendous crop. For a variety of sons the bottom, simply fell out of the market. The $8 and $9 prices of a year and two years before tumbled precipitately. It seemed as if prices would mever stop falling, and the Maine farmers found themselves finally being offered 30 and 40 cents for a barrel of potatoes that it had cost them almost' $2 to grow. No one knows just how many bushels were never dug out of the ground but were permitted to rot, being worth far more as fertilizer than the best price the dealers would give. Our fitting of glasses and examina- t tion is done by the latest scientific method and expert skill. Headblurred sight reache, 1441 Broadway, New York City -- $ teeth and staring across the water toward the Sarah. Youll hear Satan begin to holler in a minute, said Jude. Let him, said the other, Im not going to stir another foot till Ive rested myself. Oh, he wont holler at you. Its me hell go for ; youre the first-clas- s passenger. No. Im not; Im one of the crew. Jude laughed in a mirthless manner. I reckon you dont know Satan, Satan never does nothing said she. for nothing. Hes got something up his sleeve, sure. Mind you, Satans as straight as they make them unless hes dealln with law chaps and such, and you'd be safe with him If you was blind and dumb and covered with dla- - OUP PRICES ARE FAIR NOT LONG TILL DECORATION DAY Dont delay in placing, your order for the memorial you will want1 erected before that time. A large variety from which to select. BEESLEY MARBLE & GRANITE WORKS Just South of Tabernaele, Provo proaching ketch. "The Natchez, said Satan, an old cod boat, built at Marthas Vineyard. Lord! aint they crackin on! Clearys in a hurry. Theres no denvin that. He whistled contentedly as he leaned on the rmi. and Rateliffe, watching his hatchet-har- p profile, wondered what was coming next. Of one thing he was beginning to feel certain Cleary. Sellers, and anything else that come out of Havana ofi the long might trail for plunder would find a match In Satan. Car-quine- z. CHAPTER VI An Honest Man. ketch carried on, heading t for "the Sarah; then, spiling from her sails, she : c renting a full view dirty oTd Tiuirand uropplng TTFr" atfCbor two cable lengths away. Almost on the last rasp of the anchor chain she dropped a boat, which shoved off for the Sarah. Thats Cleary, said Satan, shading his eyes. It was, and as Cleary came on board, leg over rail, salutipg Satan with the affability of old acquaintanceship and the quarterdeck with a squirt of tobacco juice, Rateliffe fell to wondering what sort of placej Havana might be and what else it iflight give up in the way of detrimentals. Carquinez was bad and Sellers was bad, hut Cleary was Cleary Against the gold and blue of afternoon, the sight of this faded man. wlio looked as though he had seen better days, schoolwho suggested a broken-dovymaster, with a slungshot in his pocket, struck Rateliffe with astonishment and It was as though the depression. dazzliug air had suddenly split to dis- The n Old Bosseys prod- uct. Shes the fos- ter mother of the human race. Every child should have at least one quart per day. Unseen Forces The service rendered by a mod-- , ern mortician is composed of two forces the seen and unseen. The seen is easy to appreciate, but the unseen that which you feel and know is being done for you is by far the most valuable. Our service is the proper blending of both and nowhere in the state can better values be obtained in the seen, and when this is added those many thoughtful and kindly touches, in fact, the painstaking attention to details, it is no wonder that our service is a thing of beauty and that explains our ever increasing business whenever one of our profession is required. Our new home at 160 North University Avenue, will be a pleasant and convenient place and will be ready for occupancy on April 1st. Hatch Undertaking 1 Company ? Phone 532 Service Economy close a London slum. Huli! Hullo! said Cleary. Thought I recognized the old hooker. Now, Then, Lazybones! Said Jude. inonds only waitin to be picked off Who's the gentleman?" Gentleman came aboard for a cruise off a yacht. You neejdnt mind him; lies only out for pleasure. t Continued in Next Issue.) Readgand Use Post PW ant Ads |