The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-10-29
POTATOES ARE PLENTY.
Large Quantities Being Shipped to
Kansas and Elsewhere.
The Hay Crop of Southern Minnesota
is a Large One.

The splendid weather which this
state is enjoying this fall enables the
farmers to get their produce on the
market in good condition, and in
steady stream. This is particularly
true Of the potato crop, which must
be gotten into market before freezing
weather in the day time occurs. The
crop is unusually good in this and ad-
joining counties, and vast quantities
are being brought to Mankato, as the
market here is the best in Southern
Minnesota, the local dealers finding
competition i'll the shippers. Prices
have ranged all the way from 20 to 30
cents per bushel, and Front street has
been filled with wagons loaded with
''murphies."
j. G. Roller yesterday purchased q
500 bushels and the other buyers took
in large quantities. This is putting
much money into circulation. MIR.
Roller is shipping largely into Kansas
and other southwestern states, where
the short crop has to be pieced out
from Minnesota. He has thus far this
season shipped out forty-fve carloads.
F. G. Hoerr, another sheavy buyer,
= is shipping out two carloads day, to
the east and south. A car will hold
400 to 600 bushels. Mr.. HOerr does not
look for much change in prices during
the fall In speaking of the subject
today with the FREE PRESS, he said:
A'The eastern market has been hold
: ing up the price, and if that should
weaken, it would cause the market to
sag all along the line. The eastern
market is being flooded with potatoes,
but l do not look to see the price go
down any. l think it will remain
about the same as at present"
: The local merchants are now pretty
well stocked up for the winter and
spring, and the principal buying is be-
ing done by shippers. The quotations
today are % to % cents, the best pota'
toes readily bringing the latter figure.
The onion crop all over the country
has been a good one, and there is lit
tie or no demand for this crop for ship.
ment from this section. The crop in
Blue Earth county is excellent, but
the market price is only p cents per
bushel. Plenty of onions are coming
in, and there is little likelihood Of a
change in the price.
But little attention has been paid
to hay this fall, yet that crop is a
heavy one in this section. At the
present time, good hay brings SIS pei
ton.
Said dealer today: 'The present
= price of hay is extremely low for this
time of the year. However, 1 look fol
it to 90 up from now on. The hay
crop this year, take the country as &
whole, is larger than last year. Ir
Northern Minnesota and the Dakota
the crop OF upland hay is not so large
as last year, This is due to the eXces
.sive rainfall, the latter part of thu
season. The ground was so wet thai
many of the farmers were unable tt
get to the hay before harvest and b!
the time that the harvest was Owe
the hay was so course that it is no
good. All the hay that was cut, how
: ever, before harvest is of splendid
quality. The crop of upland hay il
Southern Minnesota is larger thai
last year and is No. l hay. This is du
to the fact that it ripened and wa
ready for the mower before harvest
so that it was all cut in good season
= ''The crop Of timothy hay is mucl
larger than last year and is of fin
quality. Almost all the timothy tina
is shipped north comes from Southern
Minnesota and Wisconsin, and tn
season has been particularly adapte'
to the raising of timothy"