Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-03
tiisy could not an Be eonsuined this

It6sy could not al be consumed this
lite In the season.
-. Bean & farnaeFs In Colorado were told
{ last summer that IL was their patfiotic
duty to grow more beans. They II.
Creased their acreage go par cent and
: grew S0,po6,0o0 pounds OF beans. Tne
bulk of that 100000 pounds was Ieit
epp their, hands, because-the railtCaCs
! could not ret the beans to market.
The Colofado bean 10 known - the
( pinto and never has been eaten .ex-
tensfvely in the east. The food admins
!, tration undertook to nopuiarise its us..
might be. saved for the Army ana
/: Navy. It launched publicity campcign.
telling how good the pinto was ana now
much more sconomical y vas ,. .nSn t ed
and were willing to give 1t triai. 3u'
when they made inquiry Of their ero-
: GERS they. found there vas no W o,.n-
!. whfie supply Of pintos on the ma. 10
ssdo.
I Government Comes to Rescue,
The government, however. has come
10 the rescue of the pinto bean Iarme,s
and has agreed to buy their last year
crop AT cents a pound. II the gov
Arnment hadn't done this there Wouiu
De few pinto beans grown TINS year;
hffort will be made to get the soioie,s
-
ready 100000 pounds have been dis
5fibuted to the Army and Navy.
The pinto bean growers .,,t are HH,e
Sortunate than their = fru onrIoads Of
peaches and apples went to waste IN
Colorado because they could NOT pc
Gotten to market, and the same Is true
81 a dozen other states. But the Iruit
krowArs.. like the corn and potst0,
Growers, whose crops are rotting, VIII
have to stand their losses. The gov
Ernment can use the beans, but 1t can
hot use rotten corn and potatoes.
The bean growers. no doubt. VIII be
willing to plant largely again this year.
No doubt. large crops OF corn ana pc,
fatoeS will be planted. too, but 1t viii
be because the farmers place patriot
Ism above profits.
! WIN Have to Borrow Money.
{ Tt. is true that they are given. as
eurances. which would seem to have
snent, that the railroads this year will
be able to haul their crops to market.
But assurances of future prohts DO not
replenish depleted bank accounts.
Many farmers, in order to plant the
kind of crops they planted last year,
will have to borrow the money: So
tar as known, they have not asked any
but there is strong belief in high quar-
tiers that financial assistance should be
attended them.
Growers Of early vegetables in Flor
Ma are experiencing the same Difficult
Sorthern corn and potato growers had
with last years. They were urged to
plant big CROP. and did it Now, be-
cause they cannot get cars. the vege-
tables are rotting on their hands. Even
when cars are furnished there is lack
Of sunicient refrigeration. Where 1t
formerly required four to seven days
for a car to get through to New York
II now frequently requires nine to
twenty days And because Of infre-
quent icing the vegetables are reaching
New York decayed and unstable.
Send kilograms Of Protest.
Florida vegetable growers are hold
ing MACS meetings and sending indfg-I
SAINT kilograms of protest to their reps
4esenfatives in Congress- demanding
railroad administration do something
to save them from the heavy losses
with which they are confronted.
They threaten that unless Transports
ton facilities are provided they will be
compelled to reduce their future plant
fngs. In practically all the kilograms
runs the same strain of insistence that
as they planted extensively at the re-
quest of the government. 1t now is up
TO the government-controlled railroads
70 carry their crops to market.
1t probably never will be figured what
loss has resulted to the American peo-
pie-to the farmers through loss Of
their crops and to consumers through
down. of railroad frsnspaxtAtion,.~ But
ae pr6babay Is many times more than 1t
would have cost to have 50 equipped
the railroads that:they could have rem