Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-05-03
43, OOO,O 900 Pounds of
Pinto Beans Secured
Food Administration is Shipping Daily
To Eastern Points and Markets
Are Improving

Are Improving
The efforts Of the Pinto Bean divis-
ion Of the U. S. Food Administration
in popularizing this staple article Of
food, providing good seed for the
coming crop, standardizing the crop
and keeping eastern markets supplied,
has been very successful up to date
and from the progress made there is
every indication that before the war
is ver the pinto bean will be a ia
vorite in thousands of homes and this
state provided with a crop which will
give the dry farmer a cash crop for
which a market is always waiting,
The following statement is an ac-
curate report Of the progress the u. S.
Food Administration Grain Corpora
ton has made to date in marketing
the 1917 crop of Pinto beans.
Contracts received from growers TO
date total forty-three million pounds
and NOR are coming in daily.
The Food Administrator has stored
good seed at the following points:
Six cars at Denver, l car at Trini-
dad, one car at Greeley. one car at
Clayton, N, M, one car at Albuquer-
que, N. NJ.
This seed is all excellent dry land,
choice, recleaned seed in new bags.
Special care was given to select seed
true to type. These ten cars were Sc
lected from a total of 27O cars sub
mitted. This seed will be sold to grow
ers at $3.50 per cwt. f. o. b. storage
points, plus a small cost for handling.
We have made the following ship
ments to eastern markets:
Boston, 80 cars; Philadelphia, so
cars; New York, 30 cars; Chicago, 100
cars; st. Louis, 100 cars; Kansas City,
25 cars; Eau Claire, Wis, 5 cars.
We are now getting a shipment of
80 car ready to go to indianapolis.
We are also making arrangements
with a number of our shippers to store
from 80 to rs cars for 90 days at
various shipping points in Colorado
and New Mexico.
With the Food Administration stor-
ing a large supply of good seed and so
to rs cars for future shipments, there
will be no chance for speculation. If
any growers are holding their beans
with the hope for a higher price, they
should be advised that there will be
no higher price than SC to the grower
and $3.50 to the shipper, as per u
contract. The Food Administration
advertising of the Pinto bean turnout
the eastern consuming centers is es-
tablishing a very wide market for this
crop. This efficient advertising will
result in a satisfactory market for fu-
ture crops, and with this assurance
the growers are arranging to plant a
larger acreage of Pinto beans.
The Food Administrations plan to
handle the 1917 crop of Pinto beans
has accomplished the following;
l. Marketing the entire crop left
on the growers hands quickly and at a
good price to the grower. SC is seve-
raj cents more than any previous
crop has averaged the grower.
2. 1t has organized the shippers
and handlers of Pinto beans which has
resulted in placing on the market only
a high grade product. 1t has resulted
in the replacing of much inferior ma
chinery for cleaning the beans by ade-
qVate machinery for this work and
has made proper methods Of handling
the crop necessary.
The Food Administrations active
campaign thruout the east to intro
duce the Pinto bean has accomplished
more in three months to get the grow
ers a satisfactory market for future
crops than could have been accom-
plished ordinarily in ten years. The
demonstrations emphasizing the value
Of the Pinto bean which have been
held thruout the east have brought
forth much favorable comment.
Wherever the Pinto is given a fair
trial, it proves 1000 satisfactory.
4. The Food Administrations plan
to supply good seed, true to type, is
standardizing the bean-a factor
which has been very necessary