Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-17
100000 BUSHELS
Will Re Aroostook Potato Crop Es
Inmates Hon. A. A. Burleigh.

Bangor, Me-, Oct. 16.-According 10
Hon. A. A. Burleigh Of Houlton, one
of the prominent men Of AroOstooll
county, the potato crop in that section
than last year and there will be about
twothirds as many potatoes har-
vested
There will probably be about TO-
000, 10000 bushels dug this year." said
Mr.. Burleigh to a Commercial reporter
at the Bangor house Tuesday, against
15.o00.0e0 or 100000 last year.
The rot and the wet season haze
been the cause" he explained, land
although the fertilizer men say that
the acreage planted last spring was
greater than ever before the crop will
be smaller. There will be acres and
acres of potatoes in the county that
will not be dug at all they are so far
gone with the rot AS il is the potato
growers will have hard work to get
the good ones out of the ground as
the crop is not nearly dug and help in
Aroostook county is very scarce and
you cant get enough men to do the
work.
IF we have warm spell with d,
weather the farmers will get many
more of their potatoes out but there
is apt to come a freeze at any THE
now and spoil those that arc i'm the
ground.
The shortage in tho crop will mean
| a serious money loss to many To the
| county the loss will be determined by
the price. At the present time the
| farmers arc selling at $40 a barrel
and that is so cents more than they
! got last year at this time. If the crop
| is light in the United States. and the
prices remain high the loss to the
| county will not be very large. but to
the individual whose crop this year
has failed it will mean a heavy loss
Those who used the bordeaux mix
| turc this year and used it literally had
excellent crops. 1t has been hard
season to use the mixture as the
weather has been so wet that it woulJ
wash off very soon and had to be ap.
| piled often. but the man who made a
| thorough use of it will make money
| this fall if the price reaches the point
| that it is expected to.
The potato growers are holding back
| their crop for a raise in price and ever
| though they can get S1.5O barrel the
ar" not bringing them in very fast
some Ct them predict that tn" pric,
| will 90 {, 4 barrel and arc holding OF
| till it advances
In q Boston paper of a recent date
was an article that related to the pota
TO Industry of ArrostoOk county which
is causing good laugh among tie mer
who ar" familiar with the potato con
ditior:s of ArouStook According to on,
! AroOStook county man the writer mus
have been niisnformcd by someone w.'
| did it as 9 joke.
| Is is understood that he was tal1ol
| some distance from Pressure Isle Il
| where the famous horseback or glacia
| gravel deposits cross the road and wa.
| told that the view that he was contem
purchases for % years of stones ErouGh
| in with AND paid for as starch potatoes
| 1t was pointed out to him. however
| that stones passing over the create,
would ruin tn" grating cylinder and re
suit in n SCRAP heap many times larger
| that the gravel deposits. 1t is also un
( dCrStOOd that he was also told that tn.
ordinary farmer receives no order les:
than / train load Of potatoes. Az
Views reproduced with the article va!
of his field and was taken over Il year!
Iago.