4 <J The Colorado Experiment Station. 
sent free to all who ask it, and arrives about the 20th of each montl 
with estimates made on the 1st. Sometimes in error on singl, 
s ates, the Reporter is said to have been wrong in its general con 
elusions for the country only once in fifteen years. 
Importation.— Potatoes pay a protective tariff of twenty-fiv< 
cents per bushel In 1909, 8,000,000 bushels were imported intc 
ie L. S., and when domestic prices reach a high level, the cron in 
Europe must be considered. Otherwise Colorado growers should 
consider the general crop of the country paying no attention what- 
e\ ei to the crop prospects in our own state, and but little to the cron 
in our group of states. Until the Panama canal is finished, Colorado 
gi owers must look out for an excess on the Pacific coast, as it must 
compete direct with us now for outlet. 
Good Marketing and the Community.— Public welfare is served 
by steady movement of produce to the consumer. Dealers trans¬ 
portation companies, consumers and producers, as a body, aix bene¬ 
fited by regular shipment. Good facilities for shipment over our 
mountains and accurate crop information, that the price may at all 
seasons reflect the supply and demand, are therefore matters of pub- 
lie concern. ^ 
STORAGE) IN ITS RELATION TO MARKETING. 
No Fixed Rule can be laid down for the selling of potatoes. 
Constant study is essential to success. The prices and the best 
maikets vary from year to year, according to the relation of supply 
and demand in different places. While the demand for potatoes is 
a constant one in every city, town and hamlet in the United States 
the supply varies, and some regions are supplied locally one year 
and the next year have to ship in potatoes; while the cities and the 
rlnrincflt i“ P ? h . ed wlth P otatoes tIla t are grown many miles distant 
clui m,g at least a part of every year. 
1 T he Northern States produce most of the potatoes and have on 
hand at digging time ordinarily a sufficient quantity to supply not 
only the local demand, but the large markets of the country until the 
early potatoes from the south take their place in the spring. 
Commercial Methods. —If the growers were to place the whole 
pi oduct on the market at digging time it would necessitate the 
s oring of from fifty to seventy-five per cent of the crop each year 
t ieUocal warehouses in the growing districts. As direct ship¬ 
ment to consuming centers is essential to economy, storage at job¬ 
bing points is out of the question, while storage at southern con¬ 
suming points is too warm or too expensive 
Storing a Large Part of the crop in the districts where the 
potatoes are grown and shipping as demanded for consumption is 
^ettei fiom every economic standpoint; and the temperature in 
potato growing states favors the plan of storage on the home farm 
