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Show POTATO HARVEST nr j mo State's Apple Crop Also Largely Exceeds the Yield of 1918. Sr-til to Tb, Tribune. POCATELLO. Idaho. Nov. II Julius H. Jaccbsen. In charge of the Idaho crop reporting sen-Ice, has Just completed compilation of the crop estimates for the present season, which show the potato harvest will amount to e30 carloads. I-ate Oc:obcr frosts did little damage to this crop, according to Mr. Jaon!aen's report, which states that fully J per cent of the crop was In storage. Sixty-four Sixty-four per cent of the commi-rcla! crop will be grade I; pr cvot. grade :. and 1- per coit culls. 1-ast wason s drought Increased the percentage of culls and decreased the quality percentage from ! last year to 0 per cent for the present vear Of the totnl production. Idaho Palis. Black-foot Black-foot and Shelley districts In southeastern southeast-ern Idaho are accredits with approximately approxi-mately 1000 cars, or about 40 per cent of the state's total. The Mate's npple production for 1?19. according to November J estimate, wlli run to 4200 oars, an Increase of 200 cars ov.-r the September 1 . t ln-..t to und To 1 cars higher than the crop for 191H The est'mates for the various apple-growing apple-growing districts wre as follow.: Boise valley. 500 cars; Twin Falls section.- Soo cars: (."oeur d'Alene ri. strict 150 cant l'ayette and Snake River vallevs. ; cars: Lewston district, S60 cars. Tho condition of the crop for the state ran SO per cent extra fancy. J per cent fancy, and 10 per cent C grade. The re-I re-I port adds that hundreds of tofts of first-; first-; grade culls are going to waste in south- em Idaho. |