Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1902 — Can Live on Potatoes. [ARTICLE]

Can Live on Potatoes.

Indiana will probably raise oyer 5,000,000 bushels of potatoes this year. The crop last year was exceptionally shorty because of the long drought, and only about l r 376,000 bushels were raised in the state. That year 59,000 sores were planted in potatoes, and the average yield was 25 bushels. This year the aereage, aooording to B. F. Johnson, state statistician, will be somewhat under that of last year, but the oonditions indicate a yield of over 130 bushels to the aore. A normal yield is 125 bushels, 77 , • -i - ~ + t ► rO tM 1 1