Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1910-05-13

best potato raisers the world knows.
He studied the question until Grubb,
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 America.
He knows where those potatoes are
raised ard he knows how many bushels
per acre can be produced in every sec
tion Of the world; he knows who has
raised the largest and best hill of pota-
toes 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 is done.
He engaged some of the most sue
cessful and best posted potato raisers
in the world and ordered 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 pota-
toes. The prizes are not to be paid by
the rail road 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 car could not be filled more
than about a third full, or something
like that, because the weight of pota-
loes 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 bushels of pota-
toes and which can be stacked into a
car to the very roof, protecting the
bottom potatoes as completely from
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 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 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 stove
pipe down the center, filling it with
stones, scrubby potatoes, dirt or any
thing which would give weight and add
to dishonest prices.
To guarantee this Idaho product he is
preparing to have established at potato
centers in the state-at st. Anthony,
Idaho Falls, Twin Fallr. 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 box prepared for it. The others
passed along until 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 onto basin where a
machine picked up wrapper already
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"
said this dreamer. "We viii clean,
polish and pack these Idaho potatoes
that way. and thus will establish Idaho
potatoes the world over as the best
market potato produced and the most
reliable.
And again this dreamer of a great
Idaho will make good to an extent not
yet dreamed of by most Idaho people. =
Capital News.
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