Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1920 — SPUD PRICES LIKELY TO DROP; [ARTICLE]

SPUD PRICES LIKELY TO DROP;

Big Crop and Probable Low Price I la Forecast. While in Rensselaer we are at present paying 6 cents per pound for Irish potatoes and 8 cents for sweets, there is evidently “a better time coming” if we may judge from the reports of a big crop in the large potato growing states, anu the price of shipped in potatoes this fall should be lower, it would seem, than they were a year ago. The writer takes < paper from his old home town in central New York, the center of a great potato growing section, and following IS a clipping from the last issue thereof: Potato conditions in this section remain quite favorable, though some of the earlier varieties show evidence of rotting. Prices, as a rule, are very low and do not encourage the growers to expect high prices this fall. The yield will undoubtedly be about normal.