Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1924-02-21
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Recently received order for carload
Of potatoes uniform size quality all red potatoes all
white He compelled write back that carload of such
be collected in the Belt Valley He also told his
that had called for potatoes to fill the
he potatoes every kind and desp
from little potatoes just the for hog feed to big deep
eyed White Elephants twenty different kinds of white potatoes
twenty different kinds of red potatoes and twenty different
lures
The potatoes specific in his in
sucons He must have carload of potatoes either
all white of uniform size and quality And this
would have been delighted fill the order it were humanity
possible compelled And what is the reason?
Is because lands raise good potatoes Flat
head or Smms the Jefferson Valley? Is because the pur
casers Of potatoes do not know good potatoes when they
them7
We do believe we believe that this situation
has arisen through multiplicity for money and the
desire OF the farmer get along with what he has instead of
ing out good Money for other potatoes money
resemble pearls Every
has potatoes Sometimes he does
seed from but he has faint remembrance that year
about 1893 he bought potatoes Black
Belt about 1908 he bought enough to finish planting his
from Dave Pmperon Cora Creek and 1913 he bought
few from Joe Bogner and in 1928 he had variety pota
toes exclusively his unlike anything in the
above in the earth beneath the waters underneath the
earth He has mixed all his potatoes each and has raised
usually enough for his and has felt the need of
better kind Of produce until favorable him surplus
which ne unable to market because his potatoes could
matched in a whole carload of his neghbors'
Certain kinds Of potatoes have always market value
te during the year Melted varieties
There are red potatoes that yield better and almost
ketable.
Now that farmers beginning emerge from the par
ta eclipse of the past few years. would it not be well for them
consider making potatoes standard crop capable of bringing
into the valley share of the outside money that always
spent by the larger cities and mining communities Two of
certified seed would give each rancher start If this
put for seed and all planted another the fall of
1876 there would be sufficient potatoes of this variety ready for
market this valley to load several Rome built in
day the Belt Valley type of potatoes be changed
but this beginning be and the
of two three standard product be developed which
win satisfy the demands of the market
Potatoes to be marketable be of The
housewife does not for immensely potatoes These
hard to handle and difficult peel She prefers potato mod
crate size with smooth skin She viii
II she avod potatoes of small size After the has
been harvested there be standard which
they must be Having done this the passabe
value which carries premium all others The small ones
still be used for stock feed potato association which
guarantee of quality must eventually market there
such thing for whatever raised here. ia
shipping cattle would be considered lacking in inte
he shipped mature beef runs ongho dehorned white
faces dairy and cannery in the ia
Just what the Belt Valley has been trying do with potato
and does not work Let's make start this year
ook around us and satisfy ourselves to the varieties of pota
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