The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1919-11-06


beans OF forty varieties. which pro
duced 100 carloads or over 10000
bags making 1885, 900 bushels or APP.
proximately 100000 pounds. The
amount paid for the beans-the finest
garden seed beans in the world-to-
gether with cost OF cleaning. sorting
handling and storing totals s6l5.Oo0.
Had this been good bean year
vthese figures would have been one
Third larger. as the crop this season
is conservatively estimated at about
IS per cent OF the normal yield
These figures We're compiled this
week by the Record in a survey ofsthe
Filler Seed company. the Everett b.
Clark Seed company, the Jerome b.
Rise Seed company and the Farme RS
Grain and Milling company. all oper-
st'ng big warehouses here. and. eN-
cepting the last named. dealing almost
exclusively in garden seed beans.
T. has been well known that Filler
has established for herself a reputa-
uon for being big bean producing
section. but there we're few who knew
the industry had been developed TO
such proportions When it is realized
that practically all OF this enormous
tonnage is garden seed beans and will
be placed on the market next season
as seed. and not as a food commodity.
it is readily seen that Filler as a seed
bean producing section rivals the Ia
nous bean renters of Tho word
Shipped ia Car Lots.
Most OF the bean crop produced
here this season is being shipped in
car lots directly 10 the big wholesale
seed houses In the East. Much OF it
viii be marketed in small packages
throughout the country for garden
purposes. while large quantities will
be used for commercial production.
Some of the shipments eventually 80
TO the largo canning factories such as
Heinz's van Camps and the Camp
bell Soup company.
From Grower 10 Consumer.
The deficient production this year
is credited 10 the shortage OF water.
Yields are reported all the way from
to S5 bushels per acre but the aver
age is close to i6 bushels, yielding
about $500 per acre TO the producer
according to the statements OF local
bean men. For the most part. these
are not contract beans. The local
houses I'm the spring supply growers
with the needed quantities CT accL-
mated. hand picked choice seed beans.
Crops are purchased in the summer
and fall at current quotations. The
prices this season ranging from 10
cents per pound When the beans
are threshed. the grower is supplied
with tags. so that every sack is
marked with the name OF number os
TIE = old,cr. and tn identification I
remains with the beans through every /
process and shipment until they have /
reached the consumer In every case I
they go through two cleaning proc
csscs and arc then hand picked II
is estimated there is a 8 per cent loss
in these cleanings. and that there is
10 per cent loss in weight.
Cleaning Process.
The beans are all machine cleaned /
hefo-s Icing shipped ont OF here. AZ
the Filler Seed company, a force of
fourteen girls and women are at pres
ent employed in the Manipulating OF
: sting department The Everett Is
DIark and Jerome b. Rice seed cont
panies. hand pick only those beans
used to supply the local seed demand
after being sorted. the beans ara
sacked in bags holding either i2o orr
1875 pounds An average carload CON
sists OF 600 hays. or $4,000 20 100000
pounds All the LEGAL bean COM
panies' warehouse are located within
two blocks OF each other on the y. S.
l.. track frontage. in a district now
a dozen warehouses. ele-
vntors and mills Excellent transpor-
tnticn facilities are afforded. and IN
the busy shipping season this district
IS The mecca for producers. workers.
syors and shippers.
The Filler seed Company.
In addition TO their big plant. tho
Filler SEED company owns and and
coudcts q model experimental farm. =
two miles west Of town. where new
strains and varieties OF beans are pro-
duccd. to supplant the hybrid quality [
which invariably appears in the cid n
varieties. New strains are thus benz !;
produced. a few bushels
81 these are supplied TO growers for I
seeding purposes. and the resultant 2
srop supplies large number Of bush r
is for successive planting. This com r
,anv has the product this season OF
I.5oo acres. "