Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1920 — WHY POTATOES ARE SO HIGH [ARTICLE]

WHY POTATOES ARE SO HIGH

Cold Weather and Railroad Strike Has Prevented Moving Stocks. There was never a time in the history of this country, probably, when potatoes were as high In price as at present. Retailers are getting from >1.25 to >1.40 per peck for them, and they are very hard to get. In many places, owing to the railroad strike, the local supply has been entirely exhausted. While the crop is said to have been very short last fall, the present excessive prices are probably occasioned to a large extent from the fact that the late spring, followed by the railroad strike? has prevented the moving of the supplies in the northwest, and the few held in storage in the cities have been doled out at the highest prices ever known, making hundreds or thousands of dollars’ profit for the owners.