Show BULLING THE POTATO MARKET ten days ago potatoes were selling in fresno california for 5 per hundred pounds because of freezing conditions in washington 19 and idaho last month and presumably because the government reports show that the potato crop in this country for the year amounts to only three bushels per person which is equivalent to saying that this years potato crop is only bushels all reports emanating from idaho indicate that never in the history of the state has the cro crop p of potatoes been so large nor the conditions better for their harvesting and sale so it is is reasonable to presume that there is a lot of misrepresentation going on all around so as to bull the market price and government statisticians appear to be taking a hand in in the game it is a safer safe bet that not one family in ten of five persons in in this country put fifteen bushels of spuds in in the cellar for winter consumption and if they do not why raise such a fuss and scare about a shortage if people decline to be stampeded and scared into buying now they will be da able to get all the potatoes they want a at t much lower prices the before spring and if they cant they can cut down spud ration for a few weeks |