Show Potato Industry Grows Starch factories and dehydrating plants that have sprung up in northern Main since Pearl Harbor prove that America's uses for the potato are increasing. Maine's Aroostook county has the loam and climate to win top rank among the nation's potato regions. It normally grows one-ninth of the nation's crop. Its farms average 270 bushels per acre against a national average of 130 bushels. Increased acreage needs only the co-operation of the weather to make a record crop in 1943. |