Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1912-08-29
POTATO SEASON ENDS
Continued from page one)
POTATO NOTES.


at least until Tuesday next.
Fred Thompson who has been on
as extra at Elmer station during
shipping season, left here on Satur-
day. Car inspector Stagerman left
on Tuesday and yardmaster Robbins
will probably leave this week. Spec
ial assistant Bert Shivers, is still at
the railroad Office assisting regular
agent Hitchner. Andrew Schneider,
telegraph operator, has had enough
to keep him busy through shipping
season and all hands will be glad of
an ease up.
Most of the potatoes loaded at Eli
mer Friday of last week were below
$1l90 per barrel and several cars
were bought at $1.S0. On Saturday
prices remained about the same for
ordinary stock, but few farmers
who came to town with extra big,
fine cobblers unloaded them at $2.10.
Albert NJ Wright, of the firm of A.
NJ. & S. H. Wright, was in Elmer on
Tuesday. He spent the principal
part of the shipping season in Chi
cago. Last week he spent in Boston.
The Wrights will handle a total of
y
| The Red Bank Register, Monmouth
county, says in Wednesdays edition.:
Acting on instructions from the Far
mers' Exchange potato growers in
this section made no shipments on
| Saturday when potatoes reached the
record low price of $1.15 a barrel
The Register says on Michael Toom-
eys' farm at Everett one acre pro-
duced $50 baskets Of potatoes.
Thos. M. Tice, of Deerfield, has 100
acres of second crop potatoes, mostly
cobblers, which he is growing for
seed.
| Prime stock brought $3.50 to $1.S5
per barrel at Elmer station this Fri
day morning, while seconds sold
down to 70 cents per barrel.
1t is probable that Noah never saw
| potatoes, and that Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, Jonah and many other not
ables, never heard of them, at least
history is silent about them up to
the time of the discovery of America
when the tuber was found cultivated
from Chilli to New Granda, but not
in Mexico About the year 1885 po-
tatOes were taken from North Car
lima and Virginia to Ireland when
the colonists sent out by Sir Walter
Raleigh returned, and Walter exper-
imented with them on his farm near
Cork. There were no potato bugs
| then and spraying was unknown.
potatoes, and they have chung to
them as staple food. They spread
over the world, but up to date, no
place in the world turns out more
delectable tuber than the counties of
Salem, Gloucester and parts of Cum
berland, and no part of these coun-
ties grows finer stock than the soil
within ten mile radius of Elmer
Numerous EMPLOYERS, after America
was discovered, carried to France,
England and Spain, samples of pota-
| toes, but it was several hundred
years before they became a common
article of food, and then only after
! various eminent authorities had urg-
/ ed their general cultivation. The APP
petite for potatoes is cultivated
one.
Up at Princeton Junction, Mon
mouth county, digging is only just
fairly under way; the crop is report
In Scotland, digging commenced in
July and an immense crop was gath
cred. Had it not been for the pota-
toes sent to this country last Winter,
Scotland would have had glut This
! year it is thought the United States
will not need SO many of the Scots.
In Chicago last week, South Jersey
tubers brought $2.75 per barrel, while
Minnesotas sold at $2.10. Quality
counts. At Cleveland, Ohio, the price
| for Jerseys was right around lthe
| $500 mark while Kentucky stock
| brought $2.70. At Pittsburgh, South
Jerseys brought 80 cents more a bar
rel than North Jersey Giants.
| At Baltimore, Jerseys brought 80
cents a barrel more than stock grown
in Pennsylvania and Western Mary
land, and about so cents higher than
Eastern Shore stock. These facts are
worth remembering and are encour-
aging to South Jersey growers. whose
stock always commands the best pric-
es. If a little more attention was
paid to grading the stock, the differ
ence would be still more pronounced
in favor Of Jerseys.
tato state. At Princeton, in that
| state, the acreage this year was in
creased 10 per cent over last season
and it is estimated that fully 1000
cars will be shipped from that one
| station. A dispatch from Minneapolis
| published in the Produce News, says
! that over 500 citizens of that city
have become potato growers, includ-
/ ing professional men, clerks, bank
ers and others. Reports of profits of
5000 to $500 per acre in 1911 caused
10000 amatuer growers in the state
to start a crop, increasing the acreage
more than $4,000 acres. Nearly every
! farmer increased his acreage this
year, and as a result many hundreds
of cars will be marketed over last
! year.
| At Woodruff Station, 81 cars were
| shipped this year as compared with
80 last year. The Exchange handled
20 of these cars, and the Independ-
! ant h71varc 90