Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1911 — CHEAP POTATOES ON WAY [ARTICLE]

CHEAP POTATOES ON WAY

Minnesota Reports Record Yield that May Smash Present High Price. Anoka, Minn., Aug. 4. —Ten thousand, eight hundred and two bushels of potatoes were bought on the Anoka market and $11,345 was paid out to farmers in one day. One buyer shipped five cars. Two hundred big wagon loads were weighed on the four scales. This excels all single days in the history of the Anoka market for cash paid. Fields are reported as going as high as 200 bushels to the acre, and in one week the yield has increased by actual weighing twenty-one bushels an acre. In other words, in seven days potatoes have grown enough larger to bring in $22 more an acre than they did a week ago.