Show PER 0 CAPITA A POTATO YIELD JS IS SAFE GUIDE ii FOR ANY PRODUCER 1 P price ice trend upward when production Is low i per capita production of potatoes in the country ns na a whole Is as good a guide ss as any when tie the grower Is trying to decide whether if bo should store his crop in hope of higher prices that prevail tit nt li investing time or sell them for the market price when they are dug according to 0 it K arnold of the rural economics department of if the ohio state university at columbus 1 arnold reports that the bureau of i agricultural economics of the united state department of agriculture has been studying records for tile the past pasi 27 yeats years and finds that when the nat national lenal product production lon has fins exceeded exceed ea 38 bushels per capita the price lins has tend rend aed ed downward during the ensulo ensuing sea son the trend tins hits usually been upward when the production has alren hren less than 32 bushels per capita only r arlien lien the indicated crop was w is nod not much more inore than three bushels per capita was the grower usually ju jus 9 tined tilled in holding his po potation in other years the chance of profit wao wag too uncertain to balance extra cost of risk storage sit rage and shrInk tige I 1 production Product lon in the late potato states according gotlie to the federal lav Is the most important in determining the seasons price level |