Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1921-10-05
PLAYING THE
POTATO GAME
Interesting Facts About Potato Indus
try Gathered From Our
Exchanges '~e,> i.


distance their fields resembles a large
Reports from different parts OF the
county indicate a good yield of potatoes
and everyone is taking advantage OF
the much needed fine weather to Sc
cure their crops.~-peoplcs Press, Hal
lock.
With clear skies at the colse of last
week after the long spell Of wet wealth
er. the school authorities naturally CON
cIuded that farmers would want no
handicap III the gathering Of their po-
tato crop this week. Accordingly school
was dismissed for Il week and all stu
dents both III high school and grades
were urged to go out and render what
assistance they could AS a result
pickers have been plentiful, for boys
and girls both have been assisting and
at the same time earning some pocket
money! Even Principal Jordahl got
into the game and has been doing the
weighing at the Farmers Potato Ware
31o,lSr-Thc Fertile Journal.
So far as we have been able to learn
Ted Knutson is high man in potato
bushels Friday Oh the Fletcher field
lust south of the brick yard, operated
This wear by Frank Chase. Nor does a
sprint put Ted i'll the doWn-ahn-out
class for on the }neviou5 day he picked ,
100 bushels nHl.!ug :}:W i'u. tor the two
.lavs-.The Frrtii" Journal
4 corn ant, potato show will be held
h.t
school house. III connection with the
girls and boys club day. The purpose
,f fhi, show is to stimulate more i'll
terc>t in raising more potatoes amt corn
bv presenting Il good exhibit from the
vicinity around lloit.-Holt Weekly
News
Potatoes, have been piling into the
rraNaripS this week at the rate OF be
tween 100 and 300 bushels per acre
BtAlWoud BreeZcS i'll Strathcona Star.
The third addition to the Climax
Potato tomlany's warehouse here IS
now ready for the installation OF the
machinery. 1'ile attendance in the high
school has been very poor the past week
as Il result of Il nuuber of the students
staying out to pick potatoes-CllmaX
News in Polk Co. Leader.
Potatoes may be full Of eyes but they
-art. poor company, and Mr.. Shaw, buy
nr at the local potato house, received
Sunday innrnilg viz the S"p>t1yer from
MINNEAPOLIS. his wife aud dauhSter,
who will keep his naturally sunny dis
position even mnrr sunny during the
idle hours MI. Shaw is Il very Soou
man for the potato business. He knows
how. The machinery works like Il clock
and Spuds cannot be showed into the
house fast enoUgh to choke it--harl-
Stal Advocate.
The potato crop j., now being hrr-
vested aEN the first ear was loaded here
on Tuesday Ivy the Kennedy Grain &
SuDplN GO. The average yield is about
two hundred bushels per acre. and the
tuhcrS are large Hllh of a good quality.
Eddie NlallS&.ll, living northeast OF town
had a SiXty-acrv plot that averaged 20
bushels per acre; Fl. SpallgrUd has a
large plot of certified seed that will
. average more than :2,5. Others are re-
porting extra large yields of Il tine
grade Of Spl,ils. -I<tuntdy Star.
1t will do you good TO visit Berkey 5
potato field near Lancaster and wit
ness the activity that prevails there
just now. Nearly ii hundred people,
Fun,l women and children are employ
ed. these i1uIndc rckerS, diggers. mo-
tor truck drivers time keepers, etc.
They have been at work digging and
picking for over a week now. and not
~ ,S,.I rf4 ln n11 hos
been gone over. This is not because
any Of the employees are sleeping Oh the
job. but because the spuds are yielding
so heavily. They say that d Soodspart
of the 22O race field so far. has yielded
nearly 300 bushels to the acre. and the
remainder tahout' 800 acres) which is
not as good, will run {, good 300 bushels
per acre. PickeGS, which include chill
tlren and groWn-uDS, are making from
SIS to So a day at the work Motor
trucks and teams are hauling away
just as rapidly as they can, and the
spuds are being shipped away from the
railroad station at the rate of 5 to
cars a day, all of which goes to show
that the work is being rushed to it's ut
most. Potato prices have fallen the past
few days, but it i$reported that Berkey
got in before the drop by contracting
for the delivery of the bulk Of his CROP
at $100 per bushel. Kittson Co Enter,
prise. ~ s5 .%;%#5 S&z
Since most of the potatoes of this
community will have been dug by the
end of this week it will be, unneces-
sary to employ school children for pick
ing OF other purposes to insure the mar
keting Of the remainder of the potato
. ~crOp-The Lancaster Herald I6 & a ft
E. G. Gregerson, Z miles south III
Badger, has 60 acres in potatoes this
year and they are said to yield $50 bu-
shells per acre. At that rate Mr.. Greg
eEson will have 5000 bushels He is
busy digging them. Others in this vi
4 sscciinity who have gone in for potatoes
are VIM. Haugen and Carl "a. ] ohnson
who have II or - acres each T he Her,
sald-Rustler, Badger, MINI. Il