Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1911-08-10
OUR POTATOES
GO everywhere
The Market Has Greatly Ex.
panded.
DEMAND FOR TUBERS
One Dealer Eas Sent Out Prophecy
that Potatoes Will Bring SIS 90
Per Barrel.

As the potato acreage of South
Jersey has enlarged, the marketing
points have increased. The time was
when Philadelphia, Jersey City or New
York were about the only important
places which knew about the good
quality of the South Jersey tuber.
Today these cities do not count and
the shipments to them are compara-
tiveyl small. For several years Bos-
ton and Pittsburg were the most i'm
portant shipping centers, but last year
Chicago and other western cities step
ped in and country wide market was
opened.
This year Boston, Pittsburg and
Chicago are the most important ship
ping points but the market has not
been at all dependent on those cities.
Among the many other points to
which shipments are made in consid-
cradle quantities may be mentioned:
Uniontown, Wilkesbarre, Carbondale,
Scranton, Charleroi and other Penn
sylvania cities. Ohio comes in for
share and many carloads go to
Cleveland, Mansfield, Akron and other
points.
In Massachusetts, aside from Boston,
shipments are made ITO Worcester,
Fitchburg, Salem and Charlestown.
Providence, Rhode Island, takes
goodly number and some have gone
to Nashua, up in New Hampshire.
Toronto, Ontario, takes few car
loads and would doubtless take many
more if it were not for tariff barriers.
In New York State, there are big
consumers like Buffalo, Niagara Falls,
Suspension Bridge and other places
where appetite for Jersey tubers must
be satisfied and cars go out with those
cities as their destination. Louisville,
Kentucky; Atlanta, Georgia; st.
Louis, Missouri; Milwaukee, Wiscon-
sin; Baltimore, Md; Washington, D.
c.; Detroit, Michigan, and other big
cities have been taking Jerseys freely,
while untitled orders or inquiries have
been coming in from many other
points widely scattered and including
North Carolina where the drouth has
been serious, also South Carolina and
Virginia. st. Paul and Minneapolis
got Jersey potatoes last year for the
first time. The markets opened are
so many and widely scattered that
there is little danger of over doing
potato growing in South Jersey. 1t
is admitted that the potatoes from
this section are superior to those
grown in many other sections and will
always get the top price.
In a circular letter sent out by a
big Philadelphia shipper under date
of July 29th, he says: South Jersey
potatoes are wanted in every market
within a thousand miles of Philadel-
phia-North, East, South and West.
Such condition was never seen be-
fore. The crop is two-thirds ex-
hausted and will clean up in very
few days. Cobblers from North Jer-
sey are also cleaned up, and there are
no potatoes of any account to come
from any other section for several
weeks. The Pennsylvania crop is said
to be a failure. I believe the inde-
pendent buyers would right now be
paying the farmers $1.50 per bushel
or $3.50 per barrel, but for the cut
prices they have to meet.
believe the farmer who holds back
his potatoes will get $5 for them any
how, as there won't be half enough
potatoes for the demand within one
week."
This viii interest Mothers.