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Show LABOR AND I. ; SUPPLY BUREAU SERVICE Good meadow pasture, 178 acres, well fenced and close In, for rent for the season. ; Twenty men wanted on construc tion work and building operations. 1 Good wages. " Apartments furnished for housekeeping house-keeping and unfurnished houses for rent. Also furnished room and boarding board-ing places. Five Holstetn and five Jersey cows for sale. Some fresh and somo coming com-ing fresh this fall. The Holstclns for exchange for other stock. All kinds of buggies, machinery, etc., to exchange for cows. Five hundred tons of hay wanted. Sixty tons of alfalfa for sale at Trenton. Owner prefers that same be fed on the ground where It Is stacked. We have men, preferlng farm work, waiting for employment. The Federal Reserve board hna ruled that potatoes can bo Included In the list of nonperlshable staples, furnishing security for bankable paper. This means our potatoes, when properly graded, sacked and stored In approved storage houses can be financed In their holding through warehouse receipts In tho same manner man-ner as wheat or cotton Is financed. The member banks of the reserve system sys-tem can discount this paper. This ruling should head off speculative enterprises en-terprises and afford quick financial i aid to the growers of this crop. ' Now It is up to the growers to look carefully Into this question of Htorage. Storage facilities for crops, large and small, should be prepared without delay. Duo to the growth and enterprise of the Cache Valley Commission company, com-pany, extensive storage quarters are now being built, and other provisions also will bo made for those who may need . storago accommodations for their products. But In any event there Is no time to bo lost. One frosted potato may spoil tho sale of a wholo sack, and a llttlo nip of frost may not show until tho potatoes pota-toes aro stored In a warm place. Again, tho day has passed when dirty muddy, decayed and broken potatoes can pass censorship In tho markets. Theso tubers must go Into tho collars, col-lars, pits or warehouses In prlmo condition, con-dition, not bruised, cut and dirty and of all sizes. Potatoes piled In heaps or bins from eight to ten feot high without proper ventilation will not keep well. They loso from eight to twelvo per cent by shrinkage. If allowed al-lowed to sweat. Place a .thermomo-tor .thermomo-tor with your potatoes and keep the tompcraturo around 36 degrees. Old potato collars should bo thoroughly cleaned and renovated. Tho storago quarters should bo dark. Light injures in-jures tho food value. If your crop Is not largo enough to justify a collar or storo houso, pit thorn. Such pits must havo good drainage and plenty of clean straw placed between tho tubers and the dirt covering. A casing should conduct con-duct foul air out through tho top. A second layer of straw and a second sec-ond layer of earth should be added as tho weather gets colder. |