The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1917-02-10

tlmOtny can not De DOugnC In the
Colville country. Seems rather
strange, doesn't it, in this valley
where these products are sup.
posed to form large part of the
product
Yet commission men can only
get scattering loads of these de-
sired commodities, though the
highest market prices are paid.
Potatoes at So per 100 pounds are
money-maker for the grower.
The past high prices for No. l
timothy make it a most profitable
crop.
Plenty of second or third grade
timothy can be had mixed, off,
color, etc. Also, sufficient culls
and scabby potatoes have been
offered this winter to cover the
city dump. But the clean product.
to get the high price, is not in
sight.
Rsnchers should remember that
the market demands good goods,
and that there is scarcely a price
offered for poor stuff. Freight
and handling charges amount to
more than the value of poor stuff.
This is fact, whether it is liked
or not and it is a fact which
does not change from year to
year. The rancher who tries to
sell a sack of potatoes partly filled
with 4.ounce specimens -and
even less-is simply advertising
the fact that he is trying to fool
the market, for he knows that
there is no genuine market for
small potatoes, or even good ones
with small ones mixed. And the
farmer who tries to fool any one
is Immediately in the same posi-
ton as the merchant who tries
it, branded either as incompetent
or crook.
The markets of this country
are offering big prices for high
class farm products, and all
authorities claim that this condi-
ton will continue for some time.
The Colville valley can produce
the goods-that is, the soil can.
But the product must be grown
to meet the market demand in
quality, in appearance, and in
packing. If the timothy field has
run out, plow and renew it. If
potatoes all grow small, get
another kind or another place.
But let's not permit the reputa-
tion of the Colville country to
suffer because other states don't
care for the kind of stuff that we
raise. Let's raise the kind they
want. And then we'll charge
them plenty for it.
DR.. Willy Wolff, chief chemist
in the Phoenix Knitting works,
Milwaukee, has perfected a for
mula which, it is said, will render
American made dyes absolutely
fast and give them a brilliance
equal to German dyes procurable
before the war. It is also claimed
that his discovery will put this
country on practically indepen-
dent basis for dye stuffs in the
future.
DR.. Wolff calls his invention a
developer for direct" "dies. Here
tofore black was the only kind Of
developed dye" obtainable from
Germany. An intricate process
is involved in using this, as the
article dyed must first be treated
chemically and then put into a
solution called a developer"
which causes an oxidization pro-
cess to take place, making a bril-
liant and fast dye. This is the
only color that has been "devel-
oped" up to this time. This
process is controlled by numerous
German patents, so that when
foreign supplies were cut off,
American manufacturers had to
restrict themselves to making
direct dyes. These are compara-
lively simple to use, as the dye
stuff is mixed with hot water and
the fabric to be dyed is boiled in