Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-18
GIVE HONEST
MEASUREMENT.
SAYS ALFRED
Farm Market Director OF
State Says Growers of
Hay Should Give Full Ton
When Selling.
Northern Idaho Can Use
Forage Crop Raised in
South - Farmers Should
Continue to Hold Their
Price at SIS.

While farmers should continue to
hold their hay for SIS ton, they
should also see that the buyers are
given good measurement, in the opinion
of the state farm market bureau
which has issued a bulletin pointing
out that there is a demand for south
ern Idaho hay in the north and much
of it can be shipped to the panhandle
and sold at a good figure.
In the bulletin Director Alfred says;
In June of the present year. l is
sued from this department the first
bulletin on hay, requesting the farm
ers to hold their hay for SIS ton,
II they were convenient to shipping
points, and later advised them against
accepting less than $3.50 per ton If
they were distant from railroad and
were under the necessity of depending
wholly on local market.
Since that time, there has been con-
slant effort on the part Of buyers to
beat this price down, and various means
have been resorted to in effort to con-
vince the grower that he could not
realize these figures. On the other
hand, some farmers growing hay in ter
ritory distant from railroad have been
30 extreme that they have demanded
from SIG to SIS in the stack for their
hay, in spite Of the fact that l eau
TONED them against doing this. Such
action on the part of hay growers has
made the buyer justly resentful, be-
cause he felt that they were being
taken advantage of.
WANT FULL MEASUREMENT.
Buyers from nearly every section of
the state have repeatedly informed me
that they were willing to pay these
prices for an honest ton Of hay, but
that many farmers insist upon a meas
urement that will fall from to 20
per cent short of a ton
/ know from long practical expert
ence in buying and selling hay, that the
ordinary method of measuring and al
lowing 412 or 422 cubic feet to the ton,
will not hold out, even though the
hay has been honestly stacked and set
lied 60 to 80 days.
When a grower asks SIS ton for his
hay, he should mean a ton, and not an
Indefinite something less. If he bales
his hay and delivers it on board the
cars, he sells a full ton by weight, and
If he sells in the stack, his measure
ment should equal the weight required
10 make a ton. lie farm markets. ue
partment set out to obtain for the
farmer, an equitable price for his hay
and we know the price we asked the
farmers to hold for is an equitable
one, and that they will get that price
If they will but hold and uphold the
policy of the farm markets department
which we feel has been clearly defined
In our every act, as one of justice &c
all concerned.
NORTH NEEDS HAY.
At present we have market for thou
he cars-the higher price being Of
tered for shipments from the south
western part of the state. / just re-
turned from north Idaho and find that
much of our hay will be required in
that section. and that hay is now being
shipped in and sold there all the way
from $24 to s35 per ton. depending upor
shipping facilities, and distance from
shipping points.
II the farmers will give us an esti.
mate of the number of tons of hay they
have for sale. and wish to ship tn,
time it could be baled ready for ship,
ping, and the name of their loading sta
ton. from present indications, we vii
cars are available. and as fast as it cal
be loaded at thete prices.
Should the market conditions change
causing a rise decline in price of
fered. we will at once inform then
through bulletin from this office.
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