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Show EXPECT LARGE POTATO CROP If potato growers respond as they usually do to potato prices, or if they plant the increased acreage acre-age indicated in the intentions-to-plant reports, the increased 1931 crop will probably more than offset any improvements in demand. The 1931 acreage is likely to be 3,-583,000 3,-583,000 acres, or 6 per cent greater than in 1930, if growers carry out their intentions reported as of January 1. Assuming average growing conditions during 1931, production will be approximately 421,000,000 bushels, for which potato po-tato growers are likely to receive lower prices than were received for the 1930 crop. Prices for the remainder of last year's crop will be determined very largely by southern crop condi-i condi-i tions and by the size and the time of marketing the early 1931 crop, j Stocks on hand January 1, 1931, j indicated that marketings there-I there-I after might be about equal to ' those of the similar period last year. Competing supplies from the south' are likely to be greater than those of 1930. |