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Show Per Capita Potato Yield Right Guide Price Trend Upward When Production Is Low. Per capita production of potatoes In the country, as a whole, is as good a guide ns any, when the grower Is trying to decide whether he should store his crop In hope of higher prices that prevail at harvesting time, or sell them for the market price when they are dug, according to G. It. Arnold of the rural economics department of the Ohio State university univer-sity at Columbus. Arnold reports that the bureau of agricultural economics of the United State Department of Agriculture has been studying records for the past 27 years, and finds that when the national production has exceeded 3.8 bushels per capita, the price has tended tend-ed downward during the ensuing season. sea-son. The trend has usually been upward up-ward when the production has been less than 3.2 bushels per capita. Only when the Indicated crop was not much more than three bushels per capita was the grower usually Justified Jus-tified In holding his potatoes In other years the chance of profit' was too uncertain to balance extra cost of risk, stcrnge and shrinkage. Production in the late potato st:ites, according to the federnl Investigators, is the most Important f&ctcr in determining deter-mining the season's price leveL |