Provo Daily Enquirer | 1891-04-29 | Page 3 | Is There a Potato Famine?

Is there a potato famine there certainly has been a potato famine in the middle states and in new england so that new york city has been obliged to depend apon imports from canada and from scotland I 1 was told a very curious fact about these scotch potatoes which upon investigation vesti gation I 1 found to be true it seems that the scotch potatoes of which an enormous quantity have been imported here are not scotch at all but are irish shipments are made from dublin and belfast in small coasting schooners ners to the clyde and there the potatoes are taken aboard the vessels of the anchor and state lines and brought to this country as scotch potatoes they are consigned by weight and not by measure and over tons of them have been imported since the ast 1st of december E J edwards in philadelphia press