Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-16
CAMPAIGN IN FAVOR OF HOME
PRODUCT INAueuRArEp BY
IOWA STATE COLLEGE.
IMMENSE SURPLUS IF
TueERs ARE SHIPPED IN
College Announces Plans to Bring Pro.
Queer and Consumer Toeether-lowa
Potatoes Equal in Quality to Those
Shipped In-crop This Year $500, 900
Bushels Above Average.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Ames, Sept. 16.-.lowa potatoes for
Iowa consumers
That is the slogan of campaign
that is being promoted by the agri-
cultural extension department OF Iowa
managed by c. l.. Fitch, of the college.
the department hopes to bring produc-
ers and consumers in Iowa together
and thus stop the costly practice of
buying this staple food outside the
state when it can just as we'll be
bought at home. In the past Iowa has
spent more than a million dollars a
year for potatoes bought outside; this
year the crop is good and large enough
to make this buying abroad unneces-
sary.
I'VE do not need to look outside of
iowa either for quantity or quality in
potatoes says Mr.. Fitch. Moreover.
we should not do SO. The United
States has a crop equal to last year,
which was one of the largest ever
grown. That means that some one
will have potatoes left over next
spring. If we buy as many outside as
usual, Iowa will have them left, for
we have 100000 bushels more than
our usual crop. We can't afford to
waste things this year. We should
use our own. 1t is a matter of a mil
lion dollars or two to the state to do
so.''
Suggestions Offered.
To bring about the desirable end OF
consuming the potatoes grown in Iowa,
Mr.. Fitch offers number of sugSes-
lions:
Dealers and growers should give
local growers a chance to meet out
side competition in price and grade.
Growers should not hold out for top
prices, but should meet Minnesota de-
livered quotations and so keep the
home market.
Attention should be given by grow
ers to quality and the proper grading
of their crop. According to the Chi
caSo market conference of last March,
first class round white or rural po-
tatoes should contain no tubers that
will go thru a hole Is inches square;
Ohio's and Burbank's. none that will
go thru hole q inches square. All
good market potatoes must be pract-
| cally free from scabby, knotty and
rough tuhers.
Attention to the package is i'm
| portant. If dealers want potatoes put
| up in even weight sacks, already to
! go out to the trade without weighing
/ the grower should put them up tha1
i way.
i Give the buyer what he wants. II
| he will pay for it's good rule. The
Western fruit growers have made their
! pack reliable and attractive and profit
ed by it. Potato growers will get more
money II they do the same thing.
| Put potatoes up in good condition
and sell early, and fairly remunerative
/ prices will come.
i Growers who want to market their
! potatoes to good advantage will get
! every possible assistance from lowe
| State College if they VIII write to Mr
| Fitch. without any charge, information
| about the market will be sent out ant
! buyers and sellers will be brought to-
/ gether Growers who do. not care tc
1 grade their potatoes and put them VI
| in good packages can not make the
| best of the present potato situation.