Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1920 — MANY POTATOES EATEN. [ARTICLE]

MANY POTATOES EATEN.

In this country, the chief, and practically only, interest in the potato today is as a vegetable for the table. We are greatly surpassed in this use by Europe, and Germany in particular. In that land the average annual per capita consumption was seven bushels in normal x times, while our own was two and a half. The laborers of eastern Germany ate seventeen bushels a year. The other European countries are, as a rule, far above us and the diet of many an Irishman is said to be potatoes and spring water—-for breakfast, dinner and supper. In to this direct consumption, uses of the potato largely unknown to Uncle Sam are for flour, starch, dextrine, glucose and alcohol.