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Show Improved Potato Crop Will Help N: Y. Town RIVERHEAD, L. I. Improved crop reports in Nassau and Suffolk counties, New York, was good news recently to merchants of Riverhead. Potato production, chief crop of the area, was estimated at 14,640.-000 14,640.-000 bushels, a little over two million mil-lion bushels more than produced in 1950. About 44,000 acres in the two counties was planted to potatoes in 1951. The total agricultural income in Suffolk county In 1950 was approximately approx-imately $25,000,000 the New York state department of commerce reports. |