Show FAMINE IN POTATOES Old Old Crop About Gone New Crop Said to Be of Poor Quality Chicago June Jimmie 3 If I If you yoth go 0 to a restaurant ICS ICS- res res- antI ask for for- foran an order o of Lyon L on alt an gratin atm or 01 German n fried and you ou receive e a small smal bit of something something some some- thin thing that resembles discard from rom a starch factory factor you will vili wi know that the lie spud famine is on Dealers in fn touch i I with wih the market mareet say that the country is facing a a shortage of j During the thc last lat 1 two wo weeks tho ho mrk et has been going through of unheard unheard-of gyrations which settled finally in a aste ste steady I bull bul movement and brought hundreds of frantic orders to Chit ago shippers who hio were ere unable to supply the demands A forecast b by local deal 1 deal I Cl's has blou brought ht the that the shortage shortage will wi be the thc severest in iii years year's j I jand and U l that owners of large quantities of potatoes will wi be more fortunate than thana a stocked well stocked coal dealer at tho Ito beginning beginning be be- ginning of a Old Ohl Stocks g From Froni Maine Maile to Minnesota the stocks of last years year's potatoes ae are arc almost cx- cx hausted and t 50 o th thoroughly thOi was tho tho crop sold out that lint dealers have o lu h had d In supplying the thc demand for fOI seed In Iii the potato producing districts of or thc the Wesl the tho encroachments encroachment on time the potato acreage are arc due duc mainly to the thc substitution of oC more Profitable crops It I Is estimated that thai the production of or ortho ho tho Greeley district In northern Colorado Colo Cola ado rado one otto of oC the thc heaviest producing sections in the Vest West will wi be he cut in two this year ear on account of the establishment establishment establish establish- ment o of beet heet sugar facto ims In the neighborhood which have taken aWa away aay awaya a large larse part o of the potato acreage v Nc Cron of Poor POO Quality Said aid a a. dealer New potatoes which have already come in aro are o j-o 0 dl disappointing pointing nj in quality as to be almost u use use- eles e- e les less In Oklahoma and Texas where two crops are raised in iii a season thousands of oC acres ares of or the thc first crop rop have been plowed up without harvestIng harvest harvest- Ing lug in in the hope of securing a better belter beter yield from Crom the second crop In Texas rexal the acreage is the thc smallest in years ars on account of the low prices and poor yields ields of last year Many of the thc farmers farmers farm farm- ers are c returning to cotton coton raising Tho potato market mareet is the most uncertain o of the thc produce markets and prophecies des cies regarding it are apt to lo fall fail Cal hut but the lie Indications already strengthened h by bythe I the thc sudden rise In Iii price are arc so o strong I that even the slowest t o of the he buyers can see sec the famine Camine coming an and all al arc c arC scrambling over each other to get gel potatoes po Pu- |