Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1917 — Grocerymen Stung. [ARTICLE]

Grocerymen Stung.

Monticello Journal. Local grocerymen are figuring a loss of several dollars this winter instead of a profit on the potatoes they haw been handling if the wholesale weights have been running as shy as some bags of potatoes that have been weighed recently. One dealer began wighing the bags as they came in and found them all short about twenty pounds in weight. A bag is supposed to hold two and a half bushels or 150 pounds. Other grocerymen report that they have found the weight shy. It is not known who to blame — the producer or jobber. The potatoes are sold to the dealers by weight and they are now required to retail them the same way. If the bags were properly fißodthe short is due no doubt to evaporation, but the groceryman who has been selling the spuds on a dose margin has not been making any money if the bags he bought have been twenty pounds shy.