Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1910 — ONE CROP THAT IS SHORT. [ARTICLE]

ONE CROP THAT IS SHORT.

Potatoes Will Possibly Reach $1 to $1.50 Per Bushel Before Spring. The potato crop this year is going to be the shortest for many years, it is said, and it w’ill not be surprising if they should go as high as $2 per bushel before another crop is grown. The early potatoes were a very light crop and the late ones were ruined by the general drouth throughout the potato growing sections of the country, except the very late plantings. Last year hundreds of thousands of bushels were left to rot in the fields or were fed to stock, so low in price were they on account of the big yield all over the country'. In our own county, which is not a potato county by any means-—that is, not enough are usually grown here to supply the local consumption—'thousands of bushels were left to freeze and rot on the ground or were fed to stock. Mlike Jungles, Harvey Davisson, Ed Oliver and several others each had out a number of acres of notatoes last vear. and Mr. Jungles has for several years, been the most extensive grower in the county. This year he has out only about six acres, we are told, and they are poor. Ed Oliver seems to have stuck to the business, however, and is reported to have out about 40 acres, the same as last year. Some of these are very good, and he will make a good out of them. T. M. Callahan, also of Newland, has out several acres, a part of which are very good. Rensselaer grocers are now paying 90 cents per bushel for potatoes to supply their trade, an advance of 20 cents over a few weeks ago, and they are poor and runty.