The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-07-19
POTATO GROWERS ORGANIZE

me cooperative marketing move
ment among the growers of Idaho
after many years of experiment ant
trial, is now to all appearances on Il,
safe. sound and logical basis, will
every promise of substantial results
The movement is now an assured
success for the very good reason thai
the farmer and producer is not de.
pending on his own efforts alone, but
there has come to his rescue the or.
ganized business element of the
nation.
The help has not come so much on
account of any solicitation on the
part OF the farmer and grower, but
from the fact that we'll organized
and established business has come to
the realization that when the farmer
fails to make profit from his in
vestment and labor all business
suffers.
So severe has been the loss to the
agricultural industry the past three
years the country over, and so in
sistant have been the demands for
relief that business in general is in
teresting itself in helping the farmer
get on his feet in such a way that
he can reestablish himself.
The fact has been thoro1y demon
strated that thru politics alone the
expected and needed relief can not
come. The man on the farm Is not
looking for an opportunity to borrow
more money but is looking for an Op-
portunity to market his product so
that he will be able to pay the money
he has borrowed and put himself in
some position of independence.
The cooperative marketing move
ment has met with years of disaster
and failure after repeated years of
trial. Fortunately that condition
seems to be well over and the
marked success with which recent
organizations of the kind have met
gives assurance of the future success
OF the movement.
President Harding in his Idaho
Falls address made the statement
that the great gap that exists be-
tween the price the producer receives
and that which the consumer pays
must be bridged and that can best be
done by an orderly marketing of the
products of the farmer thru CO.
operative marketing.
The statement of the president has
been echoed by many, including the
governors of Idaho and Oregon, and
many others who are giving their
time and attention to this great
movement
1t Is well known and established
fact that southern Idaho produces a |
superior grade Of potatoes; product |
that sells for the highest price ever
paid for that product when it Is out
of the hands Of the producer and in
the hands of the distributor.
It Is . we'll known fact that this
great crop of a superior product last /
season instead of bringing wealth to
the grower brought q condition little
short Of bankruptcy.
1t Is in order to correct this con-
dition tina the potato growers of the
Idaho Falls district perfected an or
known as the Idaho Falls
Potato Growers association and thru
that organization successfully mar
keted several thousand carloads of
potatoes.
From that beginning has de-
veloped a statewide organization,
The Idaho Potato Growers Exchange,
which proposes to include the men,
oership of every potato grower from
Ashton, the extreme north end of the
upper Snake river valley, to Weiser,
IN the extreme western border of theI
state, embracing all of the potato
territory of southern Idaho.
This organization was brought
bout by the interest of Aaron
Japiro, the acknowledged national ,
'pirit Of the system of orderly mar
Ieting Of farm products by the CO.
operative plan - put into effect by
he citrus fruit growers of California;
md the apple growers of the north
vest. the cotton and tobacco, grow
rs Of the south.
Experienced and successful men
ave been secured to help perfect I
his organization which plans to put
n tho market this seasons crop Of I
insuring the grower . fair
eturn ON his Investment Of time, I
Rbor and money. M IL
Tho cooperative marketing move
nent will grow and extend II. Idaho +,
ust - II has in other sections OF thei
ountry and will be. a. successful, ]
nd with the movement ON the part Z
I the potato men viii sooa be. deined {