El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-30

told me- II you can SCH u ~ -
make money at that price, Wen snip
them ourselves Well they didn't
went to one farmer and fooled around
for over an hour. Finally ne decIueu
he would not sell them at that price.
I left and he sent word after me that
he would sell them, so bought what
1 needed. Three days later having d
car to snip out, and needing cdhtd-
loupes, went back to MIN, ana DouSnI
more at the same price. AS L was re
turning home. he again sent WORD StIIer
me but this time that L could not nave
the melons. My car was held up Ior
several days, and had to go UP the
valley to hunt for them
s.OsIr cantaloupes are not what they
should be- They do not ship Well ana
this is because the farmers use ouIY
the cheapest kind OF seed 1hey pay W
To 81 a mound for seed, when the pest
seed can only be bought for 81 pound,
and the difference shows IN the crop;
OF some cars shipped to Dallas and
Houston, the melons were big loss TO
valley Grapes Are Fine.
"Our valley grapes are particularly
good, and for flavor they cannot De
beat, but I prefer to pay Sl.6O for CAN
forIsia grapes, because they are cheaper
for me than paying Sl1O for valley
cranes. -Why2 Because there is no
loss. The California grape is perfectly
packed, the clusters are better SNAPPED
and full of grapes, and the baskets hOId
more and make a better snow our
grapes are in scrawny clusters and are
poorly packed
Our valley pears are uneXcelIeo Tor
flavor and We have been paying 81
box for every box We could get our
hands on and are now paying S1-bO Inc
pears pack better than the grapes
Take sweet potatoes we can any
time get the Very best, superior quallty'
east Texas big yellow vans for cents
a Mound or 81 a busheL Here We have
to pay cents a pound for common
stringy red sweet potatoes, much IN
ferior quality. And the east texas
VAN will grow just as well in our valley
soil if the farmers would only use 1t IN
preference to the common red variety.
For tomatoes we have been paying
for the past three weeks 10 cents L o. D.
at Clint, and taking all we could get
Now we are giving 80 cents for To-
matOes.
I'VE can ship in green chilli from Al
buquerque and sell 1t here ana make
money when we sell it for less than we
would have to pay if we bought it at
the local market. In fact, peddlers buy
it from US and then go out and peddle
it here.
Do Not Seem to Understand.
None of our valley farmers seem TO
know what the words mean when We
say pick, sort and pack the stuff prop
I'VE have to take our own packers
along every year when we buy apples
in Cloudcroft and Captain L took
packer over to the Ruidoso two weeks
ago, bought the apple crop and have
him there packing.
Another thing I've ordered stuff,
load at time, to be brought IN on
certain day and have been disappointed
and had to dlSappOint my customers
Then the farmer viii want to dump the
whole thing on me at once and we can
not care for the stuff when 1t is.
shipped in unexpectedly.
, 1T is no question that when this val
rpTG
enormous OVetsupplY to compete with
the markets of California, Colorado and
the east When We get q class OF farm
erS that can produce and pack the right
stuff in the right way, We can get rid
of it for them"
How Heineman Sold His Crop.
Mr.. Stiles read a letter from A. NJ
Heineman, he being unable to attend
the meeting. Mr. Heineman said, in
part: a few years ago became the
| owner of a small ranch, and IL may be
! of interest to show how marketed my
| crops. There was at that time the same
| complaint there is now from the farm
ers, that the produce men would not
| buy their stuff, preferrinS the Califor-
| MIA and Colorado produce had a large
crop of pears, peaches and other fruits
| to find a market for, so 1 Investigated.
/ I found the preference due. entirely to
/ a matter of handling. The California
| and Colorado stuff was perfectly sorted,
! perfectly graded and perfectly packed,
rival and could be reshipped by the
| produce men without further handling.
/ I found that the farmers about me were
/ doing indiscriminate packing, without
| sorting or grading 1 found that the
1 biggest market of the commission men
| is out of town, and that everything de-
/ ponds for them on the ability OF the
/ goods TO be reshipped. I got packer
| and had my fruit sorted, graded and
! packed as carefully as the California
| market and made a profit on my crops.
| When the producer learns that II is
quality and not quantity, that 1t is
! quality of goods, and neatness of style
and package that counts, he will have
! no trouble in dispOsing of his crops. 1t
| is absolutely necessary that goods reach
I the produce men in such condition that
| they can be reshipped outside"
Says Farmers Kill Own Market.
J. W. LorentZen said: AT different
| times, farmers come to me and ask me
! to help them dispose of their crop. The
I trouble is that most of them go ahead
! and plant any crop, according to theiI
! fancy, and then after the crop is hall
grown, try to hunt Up market for it
instead of trying first to find what
market there will be, and plant accord
ingly.
'The farmers always feel that they
are being robbed. They kill their owl
market here with the produce men by
peddling their stuff on the streets anC
among retail men, and get often less
than the produce man could sell it for
/ "A man near Canutillo wanted me Il
buy five cars of onions. 1t was not {
| season to sell onions but I agreed Il
try to help him. He brought in only foul
wagonloads. They didn't come wheI
they were promised. the onions were
not sorted or graded, some were spoil
ing and some not well cured, and the
result was that some Of my customer:
did not get any, and some got more
than they wanted. They were packed
in big sacks.
"a man in Las Cruces sent me 9
sample of beans, and asked me to sell
his crop. In that sample there was
every kind, color and size of bear
grown. I wrote if they would sepa-
rate the beans we could use the bes1
at a good price, and he refused, saying
! he could sell them as they were at &
better advantage. He still has the
beans"
QUINN NBaeks Up KepIey."
Wallace L Quinn, of Carrizozo. N
NJ, an apple broker backed up Mr.
! Kepley's remarks. He said in part
Mr. Kepley was the first person t
show US how to pack apples, to sor
them and leave out understood
speckled and WOrmy apples, and the
! apple growers have been packing bet
! ter since and getting better prices.
Need Educating.
z. B. HOagland. farmer OF La
Cruces. said: This question is largely
/ a rOaftar of education The farmer.