The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-07-15
MARKET END
OF THE GAME
Gea STATE Rural.

Ine marketing probiem Tor the
poultry grower who has TO depend Dn
the local market 90 tie smaller towns
is at times serious one, and u a
question which offers vide field fer
discussion and subsequent soiuti ..
There are very few ~ the supaileF
tu sns I the pre- enl time IN stuth-
err Idaho. at least, which niiera To
the ? ul ~ grower any enconT ge-
ment ~tateser Quite true there
are lew dealers ~ho are iuat alb ut
toolIng Wit 'hs game, but u say
that they are organized on intelll-
gent and efficient linea and with .
sutiieisnt working capital behind
them is Joke GFocers Will take
butter aud eggs from the farmer pro-
vlded he wants 70 do business on the
due plan, bet when IL comes To pay.
ing out the CASH % the farmer for
his produce the averAge country groc-
or has too much wood In Isis mental
eonsts uctiOn.to see tie value OF such
q line OF conduot. The result fire.
quenIly IL that the faTneI hanls his
STUD To town and t..en .nnds that he
must either take u hue bill oF haul
II back home agaiu. IL ls not al.
ways convenient foE hi a. To take due
bills There are times when even
farmer or chicken raiser like to see
hi'd money whether lie really needs
II In bis business or not and when he
tails doSn on he selling proposition
and cannot get the CASH money he Ia
not liable TO feel encouraged to o on
and develop his business. Nothing
puts pep into mAn like the feel OF
a duiiaT In hts POCKET. And 50 when
he nnds the. N "a Nho will pay him
cash for his produce II Is quite cot
tain proposition that he Will do busi-
ocss where he Is treated on q bust
ness basis
We have recently had ths oppOr-
tunity Of observing the workings of
a suall produce house at Emmett,
Idaho, and the beneht which hss
be ~ conferred upon the producers Of
that territory and incidentally upon
the locs business houses By the de-
velnpment Of this company, IL almost
beyOna eStimats. TNO years ego
tuers Sas no house IN Emmstt uhich
Sould pay csh for butter or eggs u
Sas oil due bill business, and n the
farmer came In on Saturday With
butter or egas aud found the market
glutts1 he simply had to haul hia
produces tack home In April, 1918,
young Nebraskan named Wheeler
dropped Into Emmett with a220 In
his pocket, his entire capital wheel
er was live one an looking for a
loo atiJa where be mlght engage In
the produce and com mission business.
lie secured "a very small room and
opened np business At that time
there was practically no butter fat
bslng shipped from Emmett. 10 fact
Mr.. Wheeler informs us that there
~ere but four people shipping out
cans. Everyone Was making butter
and trying To- sell II to Emmett mer.
chants. The irst Saturday Wheeler
whs ia business he sas swamped
with butter, but he vas game. took
tile butter and trusted ~ luck TO eet
rid Of II. lie did, for by the middle
Of the seek Emmett merchants we're
short on buttsr and nad 10 come TO
him for IL.
| But with ths nrut farmers' arrival
saturday Sith butteE Wheeler started
pssaching . ns~ gospel In Emmett.
"Quit chuFninR. - lac told them,
"asd buy sepaEators and bring me
your butter fat. Tbsn As can do
business for you % that you will
make soas money Gradually the
butter fat gospel became the big
lea. Today the Emmett Produce
ami Commission Company ls FeesiS-
log from 2 OOa 10 400 pounds af
cream psT week, which msaas that
there - being paid out to the farm
ss very close u si ,0Oo per month.
Think Of that, you skspIics. Msrs
than $1,000 belns distributed Ia
cash annually In thiS one community
for butter TAT. Along with this the
pogltry peorie know that they have q
sore aad certain market iur all their
eggs and poultry. and tie knouIedge
OF this fact has been the factor
when has gone long ways towards
"a kinS the Emmett country one OF
TIE greatest poultry producing Sc
tions Of tie state. During tie rear
1914 tnis company paid out TO the
farmers a. follOss; Poultry and
ssgs, -, 775 O5; for butter fat, %, SAB
-. a tot Il Of ell, 324.s vs. cash dlstTib-
uted among the small farmers Of one
community spells encouragement 70
the industry II spells deVelopment;
|. IL spells prosperity for every man en-
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