St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1913-07-19

TENNESSEE TRIUMPH ONLY po.
TATO THAT WILL SELL IN
THE NORTHERN MARKETS
WHITE POTATOES
ARE NOT WANTED

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The Best Way to Ship and How IL,
Car Should BE Packed for
the Best Results.
Abfta Springs. La, July IA, 1919.
To the Editor St. Tammany Farmer:
Dear Sir:-The enclosed lette
Will gain more publicity throug
your valuable paper than l can Civ
1t and l would be pleased if yo1
would publish it.
The st. Tammany Truck Grower
Association lost good deal of none
the last season by shipping in non
descript packages. The ordering o
the hampers was left until the las
minute and the factory had none il
stock and more orders than it coul,
NIL. In passing may say that
would In my opinion be a good prop
ositton to start q box factory in Gov
tngton. We have all the timbe
needed and Covington would be /,
good distributing point with its watel
and railroad facilities.
There are some other things tha
make for success in the shipping o.
truck that are not touched on the
foregoing letter: Honesty in pack.
ing. When you mark q hamper say
OF potatoes, be sure that there are
none In that measure less than l ga
inches in diameter; that the hamper
10 we'll shaken down and the tor
well pressed down and neatly fasten.
ed with proper wire hooks. For
shipping North there is no use
to plant anything else than the Tenn
essee Triumph potatoes. Sales by
the Association in Chicago broughF
$3.50 for Triumphs against IS cents
for white stock. They do not wan:
our white potatoes and our reds are
as good as any that are raised They
seem to do well in our soil. Given
good proportion of acid phosphate
and add 100 pounds of sulphate OF
potash to the acre. the keeping quail.
ties will be excellent. The reason o.
our potatoes rotting so quickly afte,
digging Is too much stable manure
and not enough potash and phos
pilates. The quality of potatoes rails
ed here year after year convinces
that We have the ideal soil for that
crop. 1t can be taken of and othe
crops planted in the same place with
NO additional fertilizing and keeping
the ground covered all through tho
summer months. planted in vlover in
october as q winter cover crop and
turned over in the end of January,
the land is ready for planting.
Before the clover is planted all |
the available manure that can be
procured should be put on and plow-
ed under. trust that there will /
be more potatoes planted next year
than this and that we will have our
seed potatoes bought and carefully
put away in q warm place to sprout
by the FIRST Of January and planted
on or about the goth of January.
We were at least two weeks late
this year.
Yours respectfully,
G. E. M1LLAR.
Chicago, ILL.,, July IL, 1913.
q. E. Miliar, Manager st. Tammany
Truck Growers Association, Abfta
Springs. La.
Dear Strive have your favorI
II the 8th note it carefully through |.
'ut and In reply will say that W.
ire pleased to give you our opinion
y to the best policy to pursue in !.
potatoes in car lots. How ID
'ver, 1t might be advisable for you
o correspond with some other houses !
lere and they might be able to give (
ou some pointers that we have over (
ooked. and when You get all of the
together from different I
ouses, you can assemble it and un- &
be enabled to move your +
took out another season under the '
aost favorable conditions. We ad-
lee using the hamper for early ship I
tents. and in fact we advocate the c
Be of the hamper throughout your
nttre season, unless 1t might be dur /
Il the latter part Of the season when Il
our potatoes are in thoroughly rip t,
ned condition and by putting them {
sacks they will not show the effects y
skinning. However, where pota- v
'es come in here badly skinned, 1t is c,
ldeed quite q drawback in the sale s,
them, as Louisiana potatoes, as a II
lie, enter into competition with lote d.
fancy stock from Florida points N
'ming through here in hampers and In
lrrels. and they must compare favor.
|ly in order to command the price et
furthermore, where potatoes are OF
tipped In sacks while they are in l.
cen condition, they are very liable til
heat In transit, as 1t is impossible 70
pile sacks in car and give po- pc
toes the same amount of ventila- of
N - they will receive when packed tn
hampers. We advise the use of &C
cks holding 80 pounds. Further tn
3re, sacks should weigh uniformly pl
pounds, as there is trade here or
II at certain times want to buy po- de
.oes for so much per sack and they
mt the stock to lCn uniformly * pc
. weight. Our experience in handl- st
! southern potatoes gives us the an
preston that $50 hampers per car lie,
ich makes minimum carload, is i'm
Jbably about the proper amount I'M
It should be put into an average We
Z: while at the same time, so or ig,
hampers over and abvoe this lsh,
presume would do no harm. but
don't advocate loading cars too
willy, for by so doing the under ON
npers are liable to become more Imi
less damaged. We don't see the sig
easily Of stripping cars. We con. Isea