Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-10-02 | Page 23 | Idaho Ships Potatoes to Many States

IDAHO SHIPS POTATOES TO MANY STATES TATES Tremendous Crop in U. U S S. S Reported By Federal Government GO a By B v FRANK FRuK I. I WELLER Associated Ass Press Farm Editor WASHINGTON Oct 1 I Shipped In carload lots from each cach of ol the 48 states at some time Ume during the year potatoes lot form the most widely grown commer commer- commercial commercIal cial cia vegetable crop in this country In Indicated In- In production for 1927 is now placed at Bt bushels a figure substantially above e the short crops 01 ot of the last two seasons but bushels below betow the Government go forecast t of a month ago Prospects have hare declined In Maine by bushels and In Michigan Wisconsin WI and Minnesota by Prospects have Improved in Mon Man Montana Mantana tana tann Idaho and Colorado In Virginia production exceeded earlier POTATO HISTORY Now Now a farm tarm crop grown on a yearly early average emge of acres the potato's popularity Is in striking contrast to its reception at Londonderry N. N H H. more snore than years cars ago The immigrant tuber arrived in 1719 when colonial families were sus sus- suspicious suspicIous of a great number of things Although a a. native of Central South America the potato started around the world by Irish consent For some years it didn't seem to take hold but It gradually overcame continental indifference indifference ference and pushed westward with every new neTt boundary Today ship shIp- shipments shIpments shipments ments of potatoes average a cars every Cry year for the entire country Maine leads in production of the commercial late lata lat crop railway reports showing shoeing that carloads were verc shipped chIpped d from points within the state during the thc calendar year 1925 Min MIn- Minnesota MInnesota M Pennsylvania New York and Idaho produce 49 per cent of the av average av- av crags Hase estimated potato crop In the United States and 50 per cent of the average annual carload shipments Government Go charts reveal re that Colo Cob Colorado rado Idaho Florida Maine New Jer Jer- Jersey Ter- Ter soy sey Virginia and the Carolinas ship more than one-half one of their total pro pro- d one of the large producing states makes com corn comparatively the least number of carload shipments 65 per cent tent of its crop being be be- beIng being ing locally consumed or marketed within a short radius Idaho potatoes reach 33 of the 48 states In Michi can gan an 77 of the 83 counties make car- car shipments The bulk of the commercial early crop is produced along the Atlantic coast from New v Jersey south along the Gulf coast and In California The first shipments start moving in tn March from Florida Texas and Arizona About the same time Maine Minnesota ta Is Wisconsin Michigan Pennsylvania Pennsyl New York and Idaho Idabo are shipping old potatoes pota toes Average monthly carload shipments approximate cars in December and In October The late bate or main potato crop Is grown principally in the territory from Maine to Wash Wash- Washington WashIngton Washington ington north of the thirty-ninth thirty par- par