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Show POTATO CROP 800 BUSHELS TO MRE W. Bowers of Wilson likely raised the banner crop of potatoes this year, and It ia a question whether many such crop3 ha-ve been recorder. The yield of potatoes on hts farm this season Is S00 bushels to tne acre. So numerous "-ere the potatoes tha. when they were plowed from the ground they covered the surface. It was Impossible to alg them with the ordinary potato digger and Mr. Bowers had to bring Into use a large 14-lncb plow Mr Borers is selling the potatoes po-tatoes at 30 cents a bnshel, realizing from as acre $240. He claims It costs less to raise an acre of potatoes than an acre of sugar beets. Mr. Borers had some of his land planted to tomatoes and he gathered on an average of about 19 tons to the acre. The tomatoes vere sold at 510 a ton, making the gross receluts on hln tomato crop $190. |