The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-05-04
IT'S Bic JOB 10
FEED new YORK
Half Million Farmers Toll to Sup
ply Its Needs.
COMES FROM ALL OVER WORLD

FARMERS tOll constantly to- Keep New
York's millions of people fed.S Of fresh
fruits and vegetables morestkan $4,000
carloads are received in the city annu-
ally; the annual supply or meats to-
tails more than 1000 900, 900 pounds; of
butter, cheese and poultry, GAO, 900 900
pounds; Of eggs, 6,800,0OO cases, and Of
milk, more than 1.4OO, OOONO0 quarts
Poured into lower Manhattan, the
quantity Of farm products that comes
into New York in year would flood
the entire financial district, and engulf
the tallest building there, writes Frank
George of the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture in the New York
Times.
The food comes from all ever the
world. Staples include the whole
range of products from apples to wa
| termelOns. Fancy fruits and: vegeta-
bles to tickle the palate Of the most ex-
acting gourmet arrive from remote cor
ners Of the nation and Of foreign coun-
tries. Peaches and llums from South
Africa, strawberries and dasheens
from Florida, melons from South
America, tomatoes from Mexico and
even onions from Spain, Egypt and
Australia. An international meal that
represents the combined result of
thousands Of years Of progressive ag-
rfcultural science all over the world is
laid down on the New Workers. table
for the asking. asa
Keeping New York fed Is, q tremen-
dous Job. Last year $500 ears Of ap-
Piles, potatoes cabbage, onions, toma-
toes. strawberries, cantaloupes and
peaches rolled into New YORK, In addi-
ton to the large supply % products
trucked In practically all year round
from nearby farms In New Jersey and
Long Island, and sold to farmers mar
kets, the Wallabout, Harlem and Ganse-
WORT markets. New York receives ID
per cent Of all carlot shipments Of |
fruits and vegetables for the, entire
country s
approximately $4,000 cars Of pota-
toes oniens, cabbage and tomatoes are |
received for consumption yearly, as
compared with. 20,5OO cars Of apples.
peaches, melons and cantaloupes. Con-
sumption Of vegetables In New York
comprises IL per cent Of all shipments
for the entire United States, and Of the
four leading deciduous fruits about Is
per cent Of all shipments.
Potatoes take the lead in volume of
any one commodity, receipts averaging
1920 carloads for seven-yeaf period
This is about two-thirds Of the city's
carlot supply Of the leading lines Of
vegetables and only slightly less than
the total annual carlot consumption Of
the four fruits. Receipts Of apples ara
next largest in volume, flllinS ION the
average 10,850 cars and Comprising
about SO per cent of all cars Of the four
lines Of deciduous fruits consumed.
Florida Potatoes and VIruinia Cabbage.
Yearly receipts of onions are about
twice those of cabbage, approximately
q, 900 cars Of onions entering into con-
sumption as compared with 1900 cars
Of cabbage. Receipts Of cantaloupes
exceed those Of peaches by about 100
cars annually. For The seven years the
yearly average consumption Of peaches
w oo oJO1O Nui ., az SOlhpui GU VIII OtOCO
cars Of cantaloupes. Annual receipts
Of Strawberries are about LAO cars
and of tomatoes about 5000 cars. More
than 2,750 cars of Strawberries arrived
in each Of the years 1917 and 1918, but
decreased production cut down the
1929 supply. a
Practically 80 ger cent of New York
,ity's carlot supply of barreled apples
comes from New York and Virginia,
while Washington and Oregonicontrib-
lite about 81 per cent of the boxed ap-
)les. California and Idaho Dire also
'airly heavy, contributors to the boxed
apple supply Comparatively few bar
'eled apples are received from Maine,
and Pennsylvania, al
hough these states produce slarge
Quantities Of apples. Apple receipts,
10Th barreled and boxed, reach their
,eak In October, and fall off gradually
Until June -
Florida leads in the number OF cars
# early potatoes shipped, with asyear-
y average of LOO cars. South Caro-
ina Is next, with 975 cars. Second
'dTly pOtdlOeS COME from Virginia anu |
and the bulk of the late po-
atoes from Long Island, Maine, west
I'm New York and New Jersey.
More than half the yearly car1ot sup
'ly Of $4,000 cars Of fruits and vege-
ables Is handled at Hudson river piers
butting the wholesale produce dis
riot below Canal street, known as
Washington market W
The cars are received at the Jersey
reight yard and ferried across the
liver on long fiat boats carrying eight
r ten loaded cars. At the piers the
airs are unlOaded directly from the
oats and long before sunrise. The
are quickly unloaded On hand
rucks, stacked in rows on thk piers
nd inspected as to sizes and grades.
Argus-Eyed inspectors.
Prospective buyers appear TAT an
arly hour, inspect the Commodities
nd dicker with the receivers In trades. II