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Show PROUD OF 19-CENT TUBERS Pennsylvania Farmer Who Minimized Potato Cost, Produces Some Real Whoppers. Doylestown, Pa. Farmer Edward Chittick of Plumstead township, who raised 269 bushels of potatoes on an acre of ground at 19 cents a bushel, brought some real "taters" to the county coun-ty seat of Bucks, exhibiting "Mur-phys" "Mur-phys" that averaged a pound each, to show what kind he raised and they were whoppers. Thirty-one potatoes filled a half-bushel half-bushel basket heaping full. One after another a dozen were measured, and they were fairly uniform in length. Most of them measured six inches across. They weighed about a pound apiece, and Mr. Chittick says he had some that tipped the scales at one and three-quarters pounds. Mr. Chittick admits that he may have been a little low in some of his expense items ; but it was very little. He did nearly all the work himself, and consequently the cost was less than if he had to hire the kind of labor la-bor most farmers must. The United States survey figures, he says, show that he was not much too low on his labor cost. As for cutting potatoes, he says he can cut 'ten bushels with a knife In half a day; but he keeps right down to business. |