Opinion ID: 1495077
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Heading: Had Contract Last Year.

Text: (The Corte firm last year had a contract with the board of administration on a share basis for raising potatoes at the Atmore and Speigner Prison Farms. They said they took the contract `in self-defense, in an attempt to control shipments and prevent dumping. This year the state planted its own potatoes, and then let the sales out on consignment, Corte said). Meanwhile, potato growers all over the South, faced with prices of 70 cents per hundred for No. 1 grade and 20 cents for No. 2's, have appealed to the federal government for aid, and the Surplus Commodity Corporation plans to start buying spuds the first of the week for relief purposes. Corte said `if potatoes were shipped with some thought to the market price itself, rather than just a commission, several hundred cars daily would not be rolling into Northern and Eastern markets, glutting those centers.'