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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1917
Page
7
Kansas City and New York reports show quiet trading and mixed prices as frost affects arrivals. Northern whites bring $1.50 to $1.80 per cwt in carlots, while Long Island stock suffers frost damage and Maine stock holds for higher bids. Maine growers slow shipments. Rochester warns against by weight pricing.
A call to expose offenders buying selling or looting potatoes by the bushel. The speaker demands public reporting of names to enforce food administration rules and seeks information leading to enforcement actions.
Washington shipper reports virtually no district shipments with potatoes priced 75e to 1 per cwt and weak demand. Growers resist selling at these prices and trade is light. If car shortages persist, Northwestern Washington could store a larger winter surplus than ever before as a major dealer notes he has shipped only about 20 cars and cannot predict when next shipment will occur.
Minnesota potato districts report varying progress as about a third to sixty percent of the crop remains with farmers in Isanti Cambridge Braham Princeton and Elk River. Grading with a one and seven eighth inch screen is advancing with most buyers using standard sizes. In Washington Morse Singer a produce dealer had his license revoked for keeping potatoes on a siding and failing to ship, highlighting federal controls on perishable goods.
A brief report notes that the overall quality of the potatoes is good with favorable produce standards observed across the crop.
Cleveland sold six cars of potatoes rejected for frost and decay. Mortenson & Nelson of Waupaca bid $1,800 for four bulk cars and the city bought four bulk cars at about $3,000 total, selling at 5 cents and 1 dollar per bushel at stations including Erie Cemetery guarded by police and city officials.
The article argues fear is learned in wild animals, noting Canadian Rockies grouse become easy to kill as they fear only ground feeding or a nearby tree. William T. Hornaday cites untutored birds with two ideas, and the shy western wavy ruffed grouse of New England is traced to once being tamable by a horsehair loop.
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