THE REPUBLICAN

February 14, 1890

 

 

           

            The demand for the thousands of bushels of potatoes from this sandy section of Wis., for the eastern market this winter, has caused Congressman McCord to foresee a chance to help many of the constituents in this district, by introducing a bill to have the duty on potatoes from foreign countries, imported into this country, raised from the present duty to twenty cents per bushel.  It is thought that the popularity of the Waupaca potato to the eastern palate will give us a continuous eastern market.  It is hoped the transportation companies will lower their rates a little, that with the duty increased would ensure better future prices, IF the transportation companies increase their rates congress and the inter-state commerce commission should regulate them.

 

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            Berlin Journal:  Plainfield is next to Waupaca as a potato shipping point.  Not less than 600,000 bushels of potatoes will be included in the shipments from Plainfield as the output of last year’s trade and is not a small shipper by all means.  Our growers will be pleased to learn that the market for potatoes in this part of the state has been considerably increased of late from the fact that a New York dealer, in December last, found some potatoes on the market in that city which impressed him as being very fine in quality and uniformity of size.  He learned that they were from Waupaca, Wis., and secured some of them and had them cooked various ways.  The next day he left New York for Waupaca and has since kept up a constant line of shipments.  Thus the people of New York enjoy eating the best quality of potatoes grown in the world.  Such circumstances tend to bring the potatoes of this region into notoriety.