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Show POTATOES REACH FOUR BUSHELS PERCAPITA August Record Has Been Attained At-tained Only Few Times . in 22 Years "Per capita production of potato, according (o the Auguat aetlmata, la four buahela thla year on a baala of tha preaent population of approximately approxi-mately loa.00o.000. and during tha paat twenty-two yeara there haa been per capita production of four wuihela ' or more In alx yeara only," aald M M Jumln. atatlatlclan for tha i lTnlted Statea department of agriculture agricul-ture for I'tah and Nevada. "The acreage and crop eondlttona baaed on the August eatimatae la 4.221. 00a acrea. or I ner cent above tha five yeara. 1SU-1:0. The Auguat crop condition." continued Mr. Juetln, "la eatlmated at 84. i per. cent, with a ten-year average for Auguat of ll-l per eent, which Indlcatea a bumper I croo of apuda of about 440.000.0O0 buahela. "Tha fnlttd Statea la not large conaumer of potatnea compared with conaumptlon In European eountrtea. the normal per capita production being twenty-alx buahela In Oermany. alxteen buahela In Auatria, fourteen buahela In Belgium, thlrten buahela In Holland, twelve buahela In Prance, eleven buahela In . Denmark, nine buahela In Hungary, alx buahela In Great Britain and Ireland and mora than ten buehela In Canada. Theaa flaurea Include tha potatoea uaed for aeed, for malting etarch. and for alork feed. "However, condition, may ba ao favorable durlna the reat of the aea-eon aea-eon that the October cron condition will not be l.t ner cent below that of Auguat. In llt tha October crop condition waa only t.T per cent lower than that reported m Auguat. and In mo it waa only 4.1 per cent lower. If auch condltlona ehould prevail thla year, tha production would probably ba In exceea of tho preaent eatlmata. "On tha other hand, unfavorable eondlttona may develop which will ao eertoualy affect crop condltlona aa to reduce oonaiderably tha chancea of a large crop. In llif tha crop condition, con-dition, inatead of declining only M per cent from August to October, dropped off H I per cent, and In 1001 tha October crop condition waa 14. t per oent behind that reported for Auguat. On 111, although acreage waa only 4 per cant below tha five-year five-year average, tha production waa 11 per cent below, while 1(04, with an acreage I per eent larger than the five-year average, had a final production pro-duction J per cent below tha five-year a vera go. "For tha twenty-one yeara, li0-It li0-It 20. the per capita production In tha United Statea averagea if buahela. |