| Show 0 RA RAISE SE POTATOES Next to yh wheat at potatoes are classed as being our most important important important im im- im- im food product Am Americans eat more pot potatoes toes than any other any other nation They are the most popular of all ou our starch foods Last year witnessed a sad slump in our production of them Statistics Statistic show that our potato crop was the smallest in seven years and in comparison with population the smallest for de de- de- de cades Today we are paying the biggest biggest biggest big big- gest prices ever known for pota pota- toes Flour Flouris is s also at top notch botch Meat feat is way up The scarcity of wheat and meat is caused largely by excessive excessive s- s sive exports and manipulation And we can not all grow wheat t or raise our meat But most of us can grow pota pota- toes It is a product that is isI I comparatively easy easy to raise Potatoes call neither for large area nor special equipment They can be grown in a small backyard backyard back back- yard as easily and as successfully successful successful- ly as on a acre lOO-acre farm fann If every possessing a small g garden plot would raise p a few rows of potatoes it would do much toward reducing the prices on that product The bushel output would quickly be passed and the harassed housekeeper who now has to pay around 5 cents cent a pound for potatoes would be re re- re- re Germany was saved from starvation starvation starvation star star- a year ago when her grain crops failed by a plentiful potato pota pota- to crop It would ld not riot only be wise econ econ- economy economy omy but a thrifty and far sighted sight sight- ed policy to adopt the suggestion that we grow our o own n. n t |
