Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1919 — HIGH PRICED SPUDS PROBABLE [ARTICLE]

HIGH PRICED SPUDS PROBABLE

Local Price* Higher Now Than Those of a Month Ago. The dry weather has put the potato crop on the hummer in this section of the country, and no home-grown new potatoes at all have appeared on the market. In Rensselaer we are now paying 7c per pound for new potatoes, 2 cents more than a month ago, and these arfe all southern grow®. There will be very few late potatoes in this vicinity, and practically every bushel of potatoes consumed in Jasper county must be shipped in. They have had lots of rain In the eastern states, it is said. In fact, in many, .places a great deal of damage bas done from excessive rains, but it seems generally to have been quite dry in tihe west and it is probable that it -will not have Its usual crop to supply its less fortunate neighbors in the middle west.