In the matter of marketing he
said, first, as to beans:
The beans from this valley
have hitherto been extremely
difficult to dispose of and have
gained a bad name because they
were not properly cleaned. They
come into competition with the
California pink beans, raised un
der irrigation, which are thor
oughly cleaned and screened
containing no split and shriveled
beans, gravel and sticks. He
says he has talked to the jobbers
on this subject, and they say
that beans that have not been
properly cleaned must be taken
out of the sacks, cleaned and re1
sacked, with a resultant heavy
shrinkage to be added to the cost
of cleaning and resacking, and
that they simply will not buy such
beans when they can get the
others. He says that the farm
er can get some good of the split
and shriveled beans by feeding
to stock, but they are a dead loss
to the jobber. He says further
that we will have to take a low
price; that the California crop is
short this year, but that almost
half of the very heavy crop of
last year is still on hand, mak
ing the visible supply still very
large.
The same thing as to sorting
holds good with potatoes. The
raisers in the producing districts
in Colorado sort all their potatoes
and each sack contains potatoes
uniform size. Of course all
potatoes offered must come in
competition with these and it is
absolutely necessary to sort them
in order to make them marketable.
