Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-04
THE FARMERS TALK TO FARMERS


, than by the peck" remarked. "In fact, I've been giving my customers what are really bushel rates on small quantities"
 Don't care a durn about the price" :" he returned. They're the best pota- toes we've had this year, and want a bushel to eat and bushel for seed"
 That was either Monday or Tuesday. 1 Wednesday afternoon a woman to whom 1 had likewise sold a peck came driving in and wanted another bushel, | She made very similar remarks about the quality of those potatoes. Fri day a complete stranger, who report cd that my Monday caller had given him "a mess" to try, stopped his fliv- yer at the gate to ask for a bushel. | Best potatoes I ever saw" was his comment. And then. when l gave him the price: You ought to get more. | They're easy worth double the com mon run"
 ! Saturday, while making my usual 1 delivery trip, one of my regular GUS ! toners, who has had them for some time, asked: Can you spare us five 1 bushels of these potatoes? MT. N. Cher husband) says they're the best he ever i tasted"
 I'm pretty nearly "sold out" of that
 particular potato. Wish I had ten times as many in the cellar. There are enough people within the reach of my delivery truck who know a good thing and are willing to pay for it, to take ten bushels for every one I've got. And that at an extra price what one of my neighbors call a fancy price"
 It's the same with peas. Peddlers from neighboring city were bringing
 ight into my territory green peas last June and offering them at 50 cents a peck when l was getting an even dol ] lar a peck for all I could scrape to- gether. And not enough to supply the demand, at that. Reason: Simply that mine were sweet wrinkled sugary peas, only two or three hours from the vines. while theirs were the regular | 'buckshots," hard, smooth, woody tasteless at the best, and picked per haps week before.
 Same also with peppers. I don't know at this minute how many pep pers I've sold this fall. But I could have sold twenty times as many, if had had them. This despite the fac that every store in town has baske
 of peppers by its door, for sale. I've been called up by telephone by stran gers living twelve miles away, tt
 know if they could get some if they
 should drive over. Why? Simply be cause my peppers were bigger, smooth.
 CT and of better quality than thost
 offered at the stores.
 The same thing is true of eevera
 other things I grow, and will be tru'
 of still more and more, just as fast a.
 can get hold of the special varietie
 which prove of the highest attainabl
 quality on my soil
 I don't say there's more money il selling farm products of Al quality don't really think there is, evel , though they bring better prices ant
 sell more readily. For the reason tha a really first class potato or pea O
 pepper is harder to grow and of shye , tearing hahit than the inferior grades l Why this should be so, 1 don't try t } explain. It's Natures way, just a , diamonds are searcer than grave 7 stones and choke cherries more plen 5 tiful than oX-hearts.
 Some years ago l put in a trial patc of some special market gardeners f potatoes. advertised to be the bigges
 croppers in the world. I guess the may have been, for they rolled out tn plSSeSl DuSnSldSe l ever uuS' buL LII
 nig ones were mostly hollow inside
 they had eyes as deep as wells; the , were misshapen and they cooke 'soggy." Moreover, the flavor was S l high that even the COW snorted an 7 shook her wise cid head when I frs 7 put them in her feed box. For that , where they all went My little loce
 reputation for having and selling goo . vegetables forbade me to work off , sny of the things on my customers. 2 They yielded txg That was the onl good thing that could be said fc