American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1910-04-02

City and planned campaign which in
the end will tax the full capacity Of the
railway which he in part represents to
make provision for.
He got into correspondence with the
best potato raisers the world knows.
de studied the question with Grub,
the Potato King" could sit down and
take lessons from Burley, the man who
never raised potato. He knows to a
pound how many potatoes are required
annually to feed the people Of Am
lea. 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
hills 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 potato raisers
in the world and ordered a special 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 offered
cash prizes for the production of po-
tatoes. These prizes are not to be paid
by the railway company, they are to be
paid by D. E. Burley, 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 some
thing like that, because the weight of
the potatoes above would crush and
bruise those below; he has had worked
out new kind of box, cylindrical in
shape, which will cost no more than
the ordinary potato sack now in use,
which will hold half-bushels and BUSH
els of potatoes and which can be stack
ed into car to the roof, protecting the
bottom potatoes as completely from
bruises as are the upper ones.
These boxes are to be shipped in fiat
and are to be made so that they can be
readily set up and filled 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 pro-
ducts by first packing the best potatoes
at the top; when discovered at that by
opening the bottom, they learned to
put some good ones at both top and
bottom, and finally learned to put a
stove pipe down the center, filling it
with stones, scrubby potatoes, dirt or
anything which would give weight and
add to dishonest prices.
He learned that orange growers had
a machine which first took the orange,
cleaned and polished it with brush,
then passed it along carrier until the
largest struck an electric pan, which
caused that orange to drop to one side
into box prepared for it. The Others
passed along till the next largest was
separated from the rest and so on down
to the small ones which were dumped
into the last receptacle.
As the oranges were turned to one
side, they passed into basin where a
machine picked up wrapper already
printed and prepared, placed it over d
whole, rolled the orange into the hole
over the paper, dropped it through in,
to the packing box, where twas placed
all wrapped and ready for shipment.
That is just the thing we need,
said the dreamer. 1--WE will clean
polish and pack those Idaho potatoe:
that way, and thus will establish Idaho
potatoes the world over as the bes'
market potato produced and the mos
reliable.
And again the dreamer of a grea
Idaho Will make good to an extent no
vet dreamed of by most Idaho people. =
Capitol News.