Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1912 — Potato Crop Greatest In History of U. S. [ARTICLE]

Potato Crop Greatest In History of U. S.

It is reported that Jasper county potato growers are holding onto their crop for better prices. If this is so they are likely to be fooled: The potato crop this year is the greatest in the history of the United States. It aggregates 401,000,000 bushels for white potatoes alone. Last year the crop amounted to only 293,000,000, while 1910 it measured 349,000,000 bushels. It Is estimated that approximately 36,000,000 bushels Of ’this year’s crop are furnished by Michigan, 28,000,000 bushels by Minnesota and 32,000,000 bushels by Wisconsin. Although many new cars have bedn built by the lines affected In the past year, the storehouses of Wisconsin and Minnesota are bulging with potatoes, and thousands of bushels are freezing in the fields because there are no cars td move them and no room for them in the warehouses.