THE WAUPACA COUNTY REPUBLICAN

August 29, 1890

 

Potato Pointers.

 

 

            The Oshkosh Northwestern had a two-liner in Saturday’s issue stating that “Waupaca is shipping potatoes at the rate of a car load a week.”  Now, at this season of the year, one car load a week might be considered enough, but the great demand caused eight cars to be brought and shipped last week, and up to Wednesday morning of this week fifteen cars of Murphies had left Waupaca bought by Walter Baldwin, A.M. Penney, the Starch company, and Cash Thomas.  It is safe to say that Saturday night will show thirty cars cleared from this station in six days which will be five cars a day, multiplied by 3,000 makes 18,000 bushels at 60-75 cents per bushel, fully $13,000 paid out to the farmers in six days.  There’s no flies on Waupaca, even in dog days.  “Business” in potatoes has not commenced yet.

            As we go to press the market has dropped to 35 and 55 cents mainly because the stock brought in is too green.

            Farmers will do a wise thing to let up, give the potatoes a chance to ripen, for as soon as the markets are immediately supplied the demand ceases for a time, on account of the tubers not being cured sufficiently for storage.