Show HERES SAD MEWS NOW comes something else to worry about uncle sam says you may have to ease down on potato eating during the next 12 months the average per capita consumption of 0 potatoes in this country Is 2 23 2 3 bushels latest leports however show but bushels will be available tor for eating purposes so the results may be more like two bushels to every citizen the entire crop Is estimated at bushels a decrease from former years but something like bushels will go to foreign lands as usual of course a shortage means a little higher price than we are a accustomed to paying unless all signs f fall a il the price however will not cause the average family as much worry as the shortage for fol the potato has just about come to be the one vegetable that we would hardly be able to get along without no matter how high the price may soar |