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Show SELL POTATOES DY ORGANIZING Cache Valley and Franklin County Farmers Dispose of Crop Realizing the necessity for the cooperative co-operative form of marketing, potato, growers and onion growers of Cache valley, Utah and Kranklln county. Idaho, Ida-ho, have organled 1 1 1 Fruit and Fo tato Growrra' "o- pei : 1 1 e association associa-tion of Ogden, L'tah, with W. H. Par-' Par-' 'J -J vln company of Ugden f sales :iKvnl.s. according to the Parvln company, nil K I lis 111(1 I I Tho officers of the organl7.at Ion elected are: Warren Tlngey. Weston. Idaho, president. 11 Ft. lilnghnm. Rooserelt, I ldnho. vice president' II. B. Burgeeon, f'ornlsh. l'tah. secretary; F. H. Atkinson, Atkin-son, Dayton. Idaho, director; Parley Sears. Clifton. Idaho director. In speaking of the organization. Mr. O'Nell todav said: "The growers in this association arc the only growers In any district of L'tah or Idaho that have prnctica 11 nerl up their entire tonnage of potatoes po-tatoes and onions at fair prices, this .-.isons market and crop conditions! considered. M IRKE1 l l st ( ( l 8SF1 Id Y "Through the progressive efforts of these officers and Mr. Salsbury. cashier cash-ier of the Federal State bank at FerB-ton FerB-ton Idaho and Alven Hull president of of the farm bureau of Franklin County, Idaho, together with other ii to the minute bankers and farmer- of these districts this crop was pooled j and marketed successfully, while oth- er districts have hundreds of acres! - ill remainlnc In the ground with no I buyers In the districts and no organ)?.- d plan of marketing, and every pros-p pros-p el "i their crops being lost. "The total tonnage shipped and poled pol-ed from these districts, will aggregate 460 cars or IS. 400. 000 pounds To give you an idea of the Immensity of this tonnage, If it were placed In cars, and shipped In one train. It would make a solid train three and one-half miles lung, or If the sacks contained In these i nrs. were placed end ro end, they would make a string 140 miles long The assembling loading and shipping of this entire tonnage was handled by the Anderson Produce company of Brlgham, l'tah. who were under contract con-tract with the association. With the concentrated and economical methods Used' in loading, the association loaded find shipped, in one day, 50 cars of potatoes from Bcven loading st.it ions, under the direct supervision of John M Hurt and staff of loaders. This one day's shipment passed through k-den k-den in special trains destined to Denser Den-ser for diversion to eastern points "The successful method of marketing market-ing H is enormous tonnage, by the association, as-sociation, was the pooling of the. potatoes pota-toes loaded from Monday, to Monday of each week When the potatoes were delivered to the cars, the association ,.l meed the growers r.O per cent of estimated f. o b. market In cash, i ml also furnished new sacks When j the potatoes were sold, the total re- turns were pooled and averaged with tlie tonnage, so that each grower received re-ceived the same price for the Fame i grade and varletv. delivered that week "The officers and members of the association are enthused over the re-j Suits obtained under the adverse rail-road rail-road and market conditions of this reason, and through this method Of. I handling, it Is planned to increase the j acreage next season, and with a nor- mal year, results obtained will be very gratifying to tho growers." 00 |