The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-25
POTATO IS KING THIS YEAR
II. A. PAsEWALK RAISED 1000
BUSHELS HERE.
ALL ON A FORTY ACRE FIELD
He Has Already Refused Sixty Cents
a 6ushel, or $4,000, For the Crop Of
Forty Acres - His Advice, Flight
Shy Of Them Next Year"

6ushel, or $4,000, For the Crop Of
Forty Acres - His Advice, Flight
Shy Of Them Next Year"
This years potato crop in north Ne.
braska has smashed the old axiom
that the part cannot be greater than
the whole"
The north Nebraska farmer who this
year pinned his faith on the homely
Irish "spuds" can spend the winter in
Europe.
For with good yield and top prices
potatoes have not only made good this
fall in north Nebraska but they have
upset the old rule OF mathematics that
the part has to be less than the whole.
This may hold In the domain of fig
ures but It doesn't go with potato val
ues this fall. For quite literally this
fall many men who have grown po-
tatoes have found that the value of
the years yield has exceeded the value
of the very land upon which the great
Irish crop was raised.
Herman Pasewalk has gone out in
his potato garden and pulled up his
potatoes. The potato garden yielded
up 1000 bushels of potatoes. 1t took
fifteen men working ten days to gath.
err in the potato harvest.
Mr.. Pasewalk raised his potatoes in
a forty-acre field on South First street.
Too much water ruined the yield in
four acres but the rest of the field
came forward with a good yield
From his forty-acre garden Mr.. Pase.
walk raised enough potatoes to fur.
in Norfolk. If he ships his crop to
an outside market-and he probably
wilt will require from twelve to flf-
teen cars to transport the crop from
the forty-acre field
In past years Mr.. Pasewalk has
raised beets but this year took on po-
tatoes. Potatoes, according to Mr..
Pasewalk, are as easy to raise as corn.
He planted his crop by machinery and
cultivated it in the same way.
But corn this year Is not in It with
potatoes on the profit sheet. Mr.. Pase-
walk from forty acres raised 1000
bushels of potatoes for which he has
refused sixty cents bushel.
Will all north Nebraska raise po-
tatoes next year? Not if they're wise,
Mr.. Pasewalk says. He will cut down
his own acreage next year.
Stay Out Next Year.
Profit in potato raising" Mr.. Pase-
walk says, depends on prices and you
know how potato crops and potato
prices fluctuate. There is an over pro-
duction and everybody quits raising.
Then comes high prices, followed by a
rush into the potato field that swamps
the market. Last year was a better
potato year than this but this fall poor
yields throughout the southwest have
sent prices bouncing for north Neb-
raska. For the very reason that there
has been money in potatoes this year
my advice for next season would be
to stay out But north Nebraska
farmers make mistake In not raising
at least two acres of potatoes on the
side each year. If prices go against
them potatoes make good feeding. But
potato prices are uncertain. You can't
put your faith in them"
Potato is king in many parts of
north Nebraska. At Gordon, the cen
ter of a big potato country, between
six and seven cars are being shipped
out daily. Potatoes at Gordon are
bringing fifty cents.
Men who raise potatoes don't hold
them for the higher prices that come
in the spring. For a shrinkage of
about third is said to result during
the winter. This counterbalances the
raise in price.