The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-08-31
To the Men Who Don Believe It Can Be Done

1t is an old saying that farmers do hang together and1
only the they make is an old saying
that the dykes of the Mississippi river will never DC MADE 20
hold the floods and less every 1t is an old saying
that they get rid of the fumes from the big smelters
and that true only they make It an old saying that
the growers and lemon cannot succeed because
they hang together to 40 their marketing thru one
hey cannot keep the frost from coming and killing the fruit
but people still buy citrus fruits and pay the price 1t an old
saying that the ran growers of California always have to sell
the rasns below the of production but for ten years they
have been selling thru source and getting proh Inc same
old saving It can't be don" has been applied to the nut
growers the fig and Others but they sandardzng
their products and selling without prcecung against each other
and are living better all the while.
Only few times in years have the floods given serious
trouble on the lower Msppi the chemists have learned
extract the poisons from the eer fumes the smoke stack
and them fertilizer the growers have stand
ardzed productions harvest treatment and shipment, and
marketed thru until they have conquered all but the
elements the ras growers have improved and standardized
every step in production and sold thru until they made
their business probable themselves and useful to all the
The has been done with wnuts and peanuts and
figs and other things that used to brg the to
bankruptcy in by-gone years.
THE POTATO GROWERS OF THE SNAKE RIVER
VALLEY CAN UNITE
and work unit improving their eed their seedbeds their
methods of planting, and caring for their improve and
standardze all their methods of harvesting and handling sort
Ing grading and shipping and sell thru and thereby
stop the price cutting and greatly benefit the consumers as well
las themselves.
The potato growers Of the Snake valley cannot
z for handling CROP and make worth while but
they can organize handling years crops and the first ten
years they make such progress for themselves and besow
such benefits the that nobody Will be Wiling TO
90 back to the present system 4
THE TOWNS AND BUSINESS PEOPLE ARE AS MUCH
aea4 CONCERNED
as the farmers for the present potato crop not marketed to
advantage to the growers will spell ruin for the townspeope
las we'll as for the farmers If future potato crops are raised
and sold by the present haphazard methods The increased
population of the United States making necessary to farm
nnsvey to sustain the densr population and the Snake river
valley has the so and climate suitable for raising superior
and can make itself of he chief potato OF
the world if its people have the pluck do it, If they fail to
use thopporun then the price the quality and the purity OF
the seed will all down together and the potato industry Will
lost beyond recall the general adverse conditions just as
political parties have gone decay and nefency under the
direct primary with its high and low efficiency would
to the advantage every farmer and business house in
the Snake river valley help organize five million dollar cor
poato to work for years get the potato industry on its
feet and then keep working to keep it operating at high
deficiency.
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