Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1917 — PROUD OF 19-CENT TUBERS [ARTICLE]

PROUD OF 19-CENT TUBERS

Pennsylvania Farmer Who Minimized Potato Cost, Produces Some Real Whoppers. Doyl cs to wft Pa v —Farm-w* Ed ward; Chittick of Plumstead towmnilp, who raised 269 bushels of potatoes on an acre of ground at 1!) cenu « bushel, brought some real “taters” to tne county seat of Bucks, exhibiting “Murphys” that averaged a pound each, to show what kind he rajsed —and they were whoppers. Thirty-one potatoes filled a half, bushel basket heaping full. One after another a dozen were measured, and they were fairly uniform in length. Most of them measured six inches across. They weighed about a pound apiece, and Mr. Chittick says he had some that tipped the scales at one and three-quarters pounds. Mr. Chittick admits that he may have been a little low in some of his expense items; but it was very little. He did nearly all the work himself, and consequently the cost, was less than if he had to hire the kind of labor most farmers must. The United States survey figures, he says, show that he was not much too low on his labor cost. As for cutting, potatoes, he says he can cut ten bushels w ; ith a knife in half a day; but he keeps right down to business.