White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-13

---------. 1.~.. a. naIuIy a coun-
ty in the state where traces OF ground
along the base of the higher ranges,
suitable for dry-farm potato culture
may not be found; in some instances
OF but five or ten acres and in other
cases a quarter-section or more. Any
such land with moist humus-laden
soil. evidenced by a heavy growth
of black sagebrush, can be made to
produce dry-farm potatoes.
The land must be plowed deep,
in the fall and narrowed immediate
ly after blowing. 1t is better TO use
a subsoil pillow and loosen the dirt
twelve to fifteen inches deep than to
depend on shallow blowing"
In conclusion the pamphlet says in
part:
THE largest potato-growing coun-
~ in the United States is Aroostook,
Maine. where nearly $4,000, 900
bushels are annually produced.
Freight from Houlton. the leading
shipping point, to New York, Is $40
per ton. A considerable part of the
Maine potato crop is converted into
laundry starch.
In these states the cost of ferti-
lizers average about s24 per acres;
spraying to destroy insects pests,
about SO per acre. Potatoes are
only grown on the same soil one year
in three, and the of years the grain
or grass crop is not considered speei-
ally remunerative. Yet under these
seemingly adverse conditions. from
the western standpoint, the eastern
potato growers manage to clear a
profit. The average price received by
the farmer, for potatoes (. o. b. the
cars in Maine of late years is about
SO cents per bushel and in other
states about 60 cents, on December
LIST; the price usually advancing
after the middle of January. More
or less potatoes are imported from
Bermuda, New Brunswick and
Europe.
Assuming that the t%ransporta-
ton charge fhom Nevada 10 New
York via the Panama Canal will be
35 cents per bushel. s11.65 per ton.
the Nevada grower. 10 net so cents
per bushel, will have to get So cents
at New York. To let so cents per
bushel at home. he would have TO
get 95 cents per bushel at the latter
destination. Can we get 1t?
Yes and no, The Nevada potato
when properly grown is superior to
the Maine or Long Island potatoe,
the best now offered in the eastern
markets. II it is handled by an as
ISOLATION which, like the Orange
Growers associations of California,
cuts out the middleman's commission
and if the potatoes are sized and
graded and a high standard of quail
" maintained In all shipments, and
If the superior excellence is proper
ly advertised when introduced in the
eastern markets then the Nevada
potato can be sold TO luxurious trade
at half a cen a pound higher than
ordinary potatoes. and We can COM
pete in the eastern markets. Other
wise, no.
With the local consumption in
the state and the California markets
Nevada potato growers have no diff
fieulty in handling their crops at
good prices. SO cents to so cents per
bushel, or SIT TO 500 per ton, f. o.
b. the cars. 1t is probable that with
nc increase of markets. the present
acreage In potatoes about 5000,
could be doubled without materially
affecting the export price.
THE great value OF the eastern
markets to US is that for all praeti-
cal purposes IL is unlimited. We
could grow ten: times the present
acreage without p~ereeptibly chang
ing the relations to supply and de-
mand along the Atlantic coast. We
might have to be content with a low
er price than at present Obtaining to
annex the eastern markets, possibly
as low as 40 cents per busels, 1895
per ton; but the writer maintains tn
even at this low price, the potatoes,
If We can secur the eastern markets,
will speedily become our premier
crop"
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