Show L' L GR D lOS CAR OF TUBERS S. S Lbs of Potatoes Potatoe Rot While Shippers Wait Higher Prices By Special News Service NEW YORK July A A shipment of fine tine Florida potatoes which had rotted In a freight car while their owner was holding t them em for tor higher r prices was thrown away on the New I Jersey dumps They decayed poor were I unable to buy potatoes because use of the extortionate prices charged by the food sharks The facts in this particular lar case came to the knowledge of Lucius Lucius' Lucius Lucius' Lucius Lu Lu- cius cius' P. P Brown Drown director or the bureau of foods and drugs and he made them public The commission merchants to whom the potatoes had been consigned told tola the Inspectors that the shipper at I Florida hail had ordered them held for risIng ris rising ris- ris ing lag prices They carried out his in instructions in- in although the potatoes were already showing signs of rotting At length when market prices began to dro drop drat the consignees consignees' were ordered to sell seU but by that time the whole shipment shipment ship ship- ment mont was spoiled The department of health in its bt bul bulletin bill bill- letin leUn of food prices quoted potatoes es at to 4 4 per barrel of pounds It remarked A I. I As retailers have been making little or no profit on potatoes for tor the past ast few months present prices indicate an attempt to recoup There is ma no no reason I why the very best grade of potatoe potatoes should not retail at 4 cents per poun pound Other smaller potatoes can be bo sold as low as 2 cents per pound and still leave leavea a fair margin of profit for the re re- re taUer Prices of ot other produce remain about the same Tho The peach crop is large and heavy shipments are coming in Food conservation exhibits will will be he heI bei i I shown at three fifty-three state fairs and expositions during tho the summer and II faal the food administration anI an an- nou ces Government departments I I state agricultural departments amII and amI colleges will be called on pa for lecturers and dem The food tood administration administration administration adminis adminis- I I expects to reach through the fairs about 15 O persons I |