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Show Potatoes Take a Jump. NEW YORK, April 9. Potatoes havo fallen Into tho lino of rlelng products in ihlB city and havo suddenly advanced by wholesale dealers from 7G cents to Jl a bushel. Good ones are extremely scarco and Importations from Ireland, Scotland, Belgium and Germany arc finding a ready market. Iriah, Belgian and Scotch stock range from f3.25 to $3.-10 a sack. The quality compares favorably with tho domestic do-mestic articles which is quoted &3 high as M.75. Dcalors do not anticipate a famine fam-ine as tho rise has brought increased supplies sup-plies from country merchants who hod been holding back shipments. |