Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1910 — POTATOES ARE A DRUG [ARTICLE]

POTATOES ARE A DRUG

On the Market and Can Be Had Almost for Hauling Away. Not for several years have potatoes been as cheap they are now. An enormous crop was raised last year and hundreds of thousands of—bushels will never be consumed. A great many thousands of bushels in Jasper county, which is by no means usually much of a potato section and seldom produces enough to supply the local demand, will go to waste: Ed Oliver, of near Newlaftd, alone has 2,500 bushels that, he cannot sell, and there are several others in the north half of the county that have from a few hundred to a thousand or more bushels still on hand, we are told. In the great potato producing sections of the country tubers are selling at 10 cents a bushel, where they ’ can be sold at all. Usually in the spring of the year they are from 75c to SI.OO a bushel, and in Jasper county we generally have to pay from SI.OO to $1.25 for seed potatoes.