Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-03-17

part represents to make provision for.
He got into correspondence with
the best potato raisers the world
knows He studied the question un-
til Grub, the Potato King" could
sit down and take lessons from Bur-
ley. the man who never raised a
potato He knows to a pound how
many potatoes are required annually
to feed the people of America. He
knows where those potatoes are
raised. and he knows how many
bushels per acre can be produced in
every section Of the world-he knows
who has raised the largest and best
hill of potatoes in the world and how
he did it, and he knows who has
raised the largest and best acre Of
potatoes in the world and how it was
done.
He engaged some of the most sue
cessful and best posted potatoe rails
ers in the world and ordered a spec
iai train and sent them to every
village, hamlet and town along the
Oregon Short Line in Idaho to tell
the people about It.
He didn't end there. He has Of
fered cash prizes for the production
of potatoes. These prizes are not 10
be paid by the railroad company
they are to be paid by d. E. Burnley,
the dreamer.
He has studied how to make ship
ments of these potatoes cheaper. He
knew that a car could not be filled
more than about third full, or
something like that, becaues the
weight of the potatoes above would
crush and bruise those below; he has
had worked out a new kind of box.
cylinder in shape, which will hold
half-bushels and bushels of potatoes
and which can be stacked in a car
to the very roof, protecting the bot
tom potatoes as completely from the
bruises as are the upper ones.
These boxes can be shipped in fiat
and are to be so made that they can
be readily set up and filed with the
fine product of this irrigated Idaho
soil.
He learned that ambitious but un-
scrupulous potato raisers elsewhere
had injured the market for all potato
products by first packing the best
potatoes at the top; when discovered
at that by opening the bottom, they
learned to put good ones both at top
and bottom, and finally when sacks
were opened on the sides, they
learned to put a stove pipe down the
center, filing it with stones. scrubby
potatoes. dirt or anything which
would give weight and add to dis
honest prices.
To guarantee this Idaho product he
is preparing to have established at
potato centers in the state-at St.
Anthony, Idaho Falls, TWIN Falls.
Boise and other places a machine for
packing potatoes.
He learned that orange growers
had a machine which first took the
orange, cleaned and polished it with
a brush. then passed it along
carrier until the largest struck an
electric pin, which caused that
orange to drop to one side into a
box prepared for it, The others
passed along until the next largest
was separated from the rest, and so
on down to the smalled ones, which
were dumped into the last recep-
ticle.
AS the oranges were turned to ono
side, they passed onto a basin where
machine picked up a wrapper all
ready printed and prepared. placed
it over a hole. rolled the orange onto
the hole over the paper, dropped it
through into the packing box, where
it was placed. all wrapped and ready
for Shipment
That is just the thing we need e.
said this dreamer 1--WE will clean.
polish and pack these Idaho potatoes
that way. and thus viii establish
Idaho potatoes the world over as the
best market potato produced and the
most reliable"
And again this dreamer Of great
Idaho will make good to an extent
not yet dreamed of by most Idaho
people.
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