The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-08-17

MARKET them, anu ne puts inc Cultu-
rem to work picking them to take to
town. The children pick a good
many that are too ripe, and the per-
son Smelling them shells just about
everything, and the result Is mix
ture of peas that are too ripe, peas
that are too young and peas that
are about right. 1t Is not satisfac-
tory, this hit and miss way Of doing.
The farmer might as well save them
for seed or feed them to the hogs.
BY the time the hotel man pays for
the labor to shell them, pays for
the waste incident to having more
peas than guests, pays for the re-
moval to the city dump of a CARLOAD
of pea hulls, and then takes chance
on peas coming or not coming each
day, it is rather easy to see why the
guests at the hotels and restaurants
do not have fresh peas in town
that is surrounded by the rich agri-
cultural district that the local editor
tells about.
Now that we have shown you the
market and the difficulties, it ought
to be possible to match the market
and remove the objections that exist.
II you don't know how to raise peas,
and want to supply the market, pitch
in and learn pea-raising. Confer
with the consumers as to how they
want them, what they can pay and
just how ripe and how young the
peas must not be, and then supply
them with exactly what they want
and when they want them. The
Smelling of the peas can be done with
machine or by hand. There are
plenty of boys and girls ready for
employment during the pea season,
II you can only get the youngsters
and the peas together. II certain
hotel will agree to take two gallons
of dainty fresh peas every day dur
ing pea season, and want them pick
ed and shelled fresh, and delivered
fresh and crisp at certai hour each
day, just organize your forces to sat
isfy them and you will have the BUSH
ness of that hotel. When you get to
know the pea business well enough
to enlarge your business so you can
supply a number of hotels or num-
Der of towns, you will be doing some
thing in the pea business that nobody
else is doing, and you might enjoy
the work and make fortune at 1t
if you study it closely enough and
put the best part of your life into
it. 1t will become very interesting
game when you get into 1t right.
You will be able to make the pea
season open early and last a good
while. You will find that you can
combine green corn sales with 1t and
sell roasting ears to those same
people at fancy prices if you will
only furnish them with corn in just
the right condition and at the right
hour. You will find that you can
have the corn season open early and
last a long time, and you will find
that you can feed few very choice
hogs on the waste from patch OF
peas and a patch of corn, for peas
and corn that are too ripe for table
use are the best hog feed on earth.
The hulls from peas picked just
right are pretty good hog feed, and
the cobs from roasting ears as they
come back from the table are some
thing that hogs like to bite.
AS you think the matter over you
are going to say that the season for
deriving an income from corn and
peas is too short to bother with.
So it is, perhaps, but there is moth
ing to hinder you from raising a
tract of red table beets and tract
of white table beets and mixing the
white with the red and making your
hotels famous by the delicious beets
served. There is nothing to hinder
you from raising tract of horse
radish and grinding it and preserving
it in bottles at a season when the
peas and corn are not keeping you
very busy. There is nothing to hind
er you from studying out few other
things to match up the quiet parts