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prices down to-as low as 20c.
promoted its own potatoes.
Meantime, while Maine's potato acre-<
age has been increasing some 90,000
acres in the past ten years, Pennsyl-
ania has lost that same acreage. Late
in December Pennsylvania potato men
gathered in Harrisburg in a concerted
movement to do something about the
ennsylvania potato.
‘Last year’s potato crop here was 25,-
000,000 bushels. Specialists averaged
254 bushels to the acre; “twiddlers”—
armers who use poor seed, fail to
spray, make potatoes a sideline—got
only 80 bushels. But the resultant
average yield of 126 bushels is no in-
ication that Pennsylvania's is poor
potato soil. The world’s highest yield
per acre is from the Chester County
arm of Walton & Sons, where all ex-
isting records were broken when 696
bushels were dug from one acre. In
Lehigh, No. 1 potato county, Heidel-
berg Township raises 500,000 bushels
annually, has more potato acrease than
any other U. S. Township. In Penn-
sylvania are more than 1,100 members
of the “400 Club”, who must raise 400
‘bushels per acre. More than 500 grow-
ers have raised 500 bushels. There
are more “400” growers here than in
1 other States combined. Over the
past seven years, potatoes have been
Pennsylvania's most valuable farm
crop.
i Can’t Tell Difference
“So proud are Pennsylvania growers
~of their product that the State Farm
how has a standing offer of $5 for
yone who can distinguish between a
aked Pennsylvania potato and its
more publicized Idaho counsin. At last
year’s show the Pennsylvania Potato
rowers’ Association paid out not one
$5 bill, although 35,000 baked potaties,
with a plentiful sprinkling of Idahoes
to make the offer genuine, were sold at
5c each, generously daubed witih 600
lbs. of Pennsylvania butter.
Despite the quality of their soil and
merchandise, Pennsylvania potato
growers are not happy. They fancied
‘that the chain store was the villian in
what would otherwise be a happy
drama. Last December the chain stores
themselves confessed to doing wrong
by Pennsylvania's potato growers and
set out to right the wrong. The focal
~__ point of attack was the farmer's dis-
tribution habits.
A. thousand stores given to buying
items in carload lots found some time
‘ago that Pennsylvania potatoes could
be bought only in driblets. Early at-
tempt to buy produce from local farm-
ers were soon abandoned, and the
chains sent men into the produce mar-
kets after carload quantities—quanti-
ties which Pennsylvania's 10,000 inivi-
vidualistic potato men had never been
in the habit of assembling. So the
Pennsylvania, market baskets began to
fill with potatoes from Maine, where
few fences break up the 1,000-acre po-
‘tato farms. :
Because some 19,000 Pennsylvania
stores are now members of co-opera-
tive or voluntary chains, and because
these stores sell the State’s house-
wives most of their edibles, losing this
market was a major catastrophe to
State growers. Few industries can
prosper when, as with the $40,000,000
state potato industry, they lose one-
100 MEMBERS OF GROWERS’
ASSOCIATION JOIN SCHEME
POTATO MEN ADOPT MODERN METHODS
(The following article, from the January 4 issue of “We, The
People,” describes graphically what Pennsylvania farmers are
home-grown spuds Because local
stores and local farmers are co-operating in this modern move-
ment, the article should interest Post readers.)
(See Editorial, Page 6)
~~ Some like them boiled, some mashed, some baked; others wouldn't touch
them unless they are fried, or even used in such tasty dishes as German pan-
But so normal a part of America’s eating habits is the potato that
America’s 125,000,000 inhabitants consume three 60-1b. bushels annually.
In 1933 potato growers raised a 500,000,000-bushel crop, somewhat more
That year over-production plus Depression drove
v This year the potato crop is short and spuds
st about $1.50. When the crop approximates 400,000,000 bushels, all interest-
parties are pleased. Potatoes sell for about $1, not too dear for the home
pocketbook, high enough to give the grower a nice return.
Potatoes are originally American. When they made their way to Ireland,
he Irish Cobbler became a famed brand. Of late years America has smartly
Smart advertising caused housewives to call for
Idaho potatoes for baking. Smart production in the past decade has shoved
‘Maine to the top of potato production States.
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third of their markets. The potato
growers’ case was not happy.
Soon chain store operators found
that their lot was no happier. They
noted a decline in potato district pur-
chases. Thus one Philadelphia-man-
aged chain, with no Maine outlets, was
sending $2,000,000 to that state for po-
tatoes, money which might otherwise
have jingled from Pennsylvania farm-
ers’ pockets into their store tills.
New Note of Co operation
Few groups are more traditional
enemies than chain stores and farm-
ers. But last July chain stores began
trying to iron out the farmers’ and
their difficulties. Living up to his title
of Public Relations counsel, tall Fred
Johnston, press agent for the Ameri-
can Stores Company, presented a co-
operative plan whereby chains (includ-
ing independent stores in cooperative
groups) and farmers might start do-
ing business together again. High spot
of the plan was its means of improving
the farmers’ marketing technique.
Eleven hundred members of the Po-
tato Growers’ Association one-ninth of
the State’s growers—agreed to adopt
a standard package, set up an inspec-
tion system to size and grade potatoes.
No longer tumbled into barrels or
| bags, cleaned, sized and graded pota-
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Wives, mothers, sisters—they're often
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health to their men folkl For women
know that a healthy head produces
handsome hair! Ard that's why
women everywhere are pointing to
Fom-ol, the remarkable foaming oil
shampoo which first nourishes the
scalp, then takes the dull, parched
hair and brings it back to glowing
health. Fom-ol is so economical; a
litle goes a long way. Ask your
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Or, write for a generous trial bot
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and postage.; -
FOM-OL
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umble “Spud” Steps Out As State
~ Farmers Move To Meet Competion
Ladies’ Aid Plans
Supper February 19
The Ladies’ Aid Society of Dallas
M. E. Church will have a turkey sup-
per on Friday night, February 19, ac-
cording to plans made at a meeting
on Thursday afternoon at the church.
Mrs. N. Whipp and Mrs. Charles
Parrish are members of the committee
for the February meeting. The March
meeting will be a covered dish lunch-
eon and election. A sample sale will
be held in March, with the following
committee in charge: Mrs. J. Schmer-
er, Mrs. C. A. Frantz, Mrs. E. A. Fiske,
Mrs. J. R. Oliver, Mrs. Robert Allen,
Mrs. William Cairl, Mrs. Harold Tit-
man and Miss Mary Still.
At Thursday's meeting Mrs, Marga-
ret Hildebrant led singing and Mrs.
William Cairl and Mrs. Rebecca Monk
led devotions.
The following attended: Mrs. C. A.
Frantz, Miss Marguerite Frantz, Mrs.
Rebecca Monk, Mrs. William Cairl,
Mrs. Burt Lewis, Mrs. C. A. Gordon,
Mrs. William Baker, Mrs. Francis
Freeman, Mrs. Ray Shiber, Mrs. M. L.
Yaple, Miss Mary Still, Mrs. Frank
Garrahan, Mrs. Charles Gates, Mrs.
Winifred Thomas, Mrs. Floyd Ide.
toes are packed in sturdy, attractive
peck and bushel paper sacks. There
are three grades. - “Blue Label” po-
tatoes must be: a minimum of two
inches in diameter, no heavier than 16
ounces, free of rot or injury. “Red
Labels” must not be smaller than 1%
inches, otherwise equal “Blue Labels.”
“Fellow Labels,” packed only in bush-
el bags, are ‘rough”—too garnled to
be first grade, but free of rot, all
edible. Each bag bears the number
of an inspector licensed by the State
Bureau of Markets.
Large growers will have their own
packing and inspection plants. Small
growers will use co-operative central
grading plants. This year Association
members hope to sell 1,000,000 bushels;
eventually, to sell most of the State's
potatoes through these cooperative
channels. For a $1 fee anyone may
join the Association. There is no com-
mission fee, sales being made direct
to store buyers, who will prefer State
potatoes. ih
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Buttercup Blooms
At Farmer’s Show
16-Year-Old Guernsey Cow
Has Produced 122,000
Pounds Of Milk
Hard working sixteen year old But-
tercup of Riveridge, a purebred Guern-
sey cow in the herd of the J. Barlow
Cullum Est. Reading, is taking a week
off to attend the Farm Products Show
at Harrisburg, according to R. C. Wig-
gins, field secretary of the state as-
sociation of breeders.
This old grandmother lays no claim
to fame but records show that she has
produced 122,000 pounds of milk in her
lifetime and 5700 pounds of butterfat
equal to seven tons of butter. In ad-
dition she has given birth to thirteen
calves. She has never previously left
her stall on the farm where she was
born in 1920.
Buttercup is representing officially
at the farm show the thousands of
good dairy cows on Pennsylvania
farms which ordinarily go on working
year after year without any special
recognition. Her throne will be lined
TRAINING CLASS
The second meeting of the Service
Training Class was held Monday night
by members of the Y. P. M. S. of Out-
let and Trucksville Free Methodist
Church at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Corey Evans. Ida Smith of Trucks-
ville led devotions and Rev. Lewis Sei-
fert of Outlet continued the story of
“From Chaos to Character.” Those
present: Rev. Gertrude B. Ross, Pru-
dence Ham, Araminta and Ruth Smith,
Marion Rogers, Carl Sterling, Florence
and Gertrude MacMichael, Sheldon
Roushey, Elizabeth Sorber, Dorothy
Ide, Alberta Wilcox, Arden Evans,
Arline Crispell and Phyllis Lyne.
rr Qt Qe
QUARTERLY MEETING
The quarterly meeting of Trucks-
ville and Dallas Free Methodist
Churches will be held on Friday, Sat-
urday and Sunday evenings with Rev.
T. M. Holcomb, district elder, in
charge.
with mirrors so that the spectator can
at a glance obtain a complete picture
of the old matron which, since 1920,
has contributed more than her bit to
dairying in the Keystone state.
money-making position.
OPPORTUNITY
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If you think you can sell subscriptions to The Dallas Post
through a new, attractive plan you can earn liberal commissions
for part-time work. We will select only one young f man or
young woman now to introduce this plan locally. No experience
necessary. Preference given to person with automobile.
letter please tell us why you think you could fill this part-time,
Please do not apply personally. 3
THE DALLAS POST
Dallas,
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In a
Pa.
A HANDY GUIDE
BUSINESS
DIRECTORY
These firms are vitally in-
terested in the welfare of
Dallas and its vicinity. We
recommend them in the hope
that your patronage and their"
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SECURITIES
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DODGE PLYMOUTH
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IRA DB. COOKE
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ENGINEERING
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SUCCESSOR TO
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Phone. Dallas 126. Dallas, Pa.
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farm within
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There are hundreds of electri-
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can put in every day use at a
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considering.
Let electricity do the drudg-
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not already being served by this
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problems with you.
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most of the electri-
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cents a day every
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HARDWARE
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Plumbing and Heating
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PLUMBING AND HEATING
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