South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-03-10
Much Land is Being Wasted
Now by Raising Too Many
Varieties of Produce SAYS
County Agent.
WOULD RAISE QUALITY
To BOOST CITY MARKET
Maintenance of Specific Stand
ard BY All Growers Will In
crease Efficiency of Mart
Big Meeting March II.

'ToO much ST. Joseph county land
is being utilized for raising produce
that is not standardized. If the land
were put TO the production of a more
standardized vegetation would largely
lower the present high cost of living" :"
This was the declaration of John $.
BOrdner, county agent Tuesday. This
will be one of the problems with which
farmers Will contend when they meet
at the public library March q. TO dis
cuSS effecting an organization for i'm
proving South Bends city market.
"A proposition wii! be made TO the
farmers to cooperate in raising a
standard quality of produce and when
enough Of the growers get together
and raise a single high standard pro-
duce the cost OF living Will be greatly
lowered and the producer will be
easily able TO dispose Of his produce
at top prices"
Expert TO Talk Here.
Thomas Crofts, of Toledo, O., an eX-
pert garden farmer, and secretary OF
the Toledo Market and Growers assO-
citation, will be the principal speaker
at the session, according to Mayor
Keller, who completed arrangements
Tuesday with the Toledo farmer. It
is believed the session at the library
will make several important changes
in farm management in the county as
we'll as with the present city market
An organization will be effected and
an effort will be made TO get the farm
ers to cooperate in raising one high
standard quality article, according to
Mayor Keller. B. b. Miller. who Will
have charge of the city market in the
future, will be one of the principal
speakers at the session and will urge
the farmers to lend their combined
support to the market Mayor Keller
wi ROrnnaT
Bordner declared in a statement to
The News-Times Tuesday, that the
farmers of the country are wasting
their land by raising too many differ
ent kinds Of produce. He said that so
many experiments are being made,
that the consumer has to be educateu
to the quality of every produce before
ne will purchase and that there is but
little reliability in the present low
standards of market produce.
Must Maintain Standard.
1--WE must select a higher standard q
and all should cooperate in raising II,
he declared. This will establish re-
liability on which every consumer VIII
be willing to depend and will increase
the efficiency of our market. II the
association can agree on raising GER
tain high standard produce and all
use the same variety the consumer
will only have to educate himself con
cerning the one and will soon learn It's
merits 1t will not be long before the
number of consumers that VISIT lhe
market will be doubled"
He showed that efforts must be
made to increase the number o farm
ers that bring produce 20 the market,
as we'll as the number OF buyers. The
meeting at the library it is hoped will
develop TO the construction of a com
pany hot house for raising produce
To supply the demands during the
winter months.
Cucumbers, lettuce. tomatoes and
other produce has been suggested, as
produce that could be raised during
the winter months and it has been es-
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