WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

January 28, 1887

 

SOME POTATOES

 

            The Post says “no potatoes to speak of have been marketed here this season.”  Perhaps outsiders might infer from that statement that the potato crop was a failure in this “desert country” last year.  Ordinarily a hundred thousand bushels received and marketed up to Feb. 1st in Waupaca would be about the ticket, but this year, owing to the protracted drought last season and the low price in the fall the market opened slow.  But lately it has been picking up and they are coming in at the rate of 2,000 to 3,000 bushels per day.  On Saturday last there was about 4,000 bushels brought in by our farmers, and on Tuesday 3,500 bushels.  The price has been better than in the early part of the season, 30 cents for choice stock.  Over 12,000 bushels have been bought and shipped by the following dealers up to date:  Jeffers & Penney, Chandler K Hudson and W.C. Baldwin. Zero weather does not retard the sellers, buyers or shippers.  “Everything goes” and if the present impetus to the potato market continues, Waupaca will be surprised at the footings, for really, the potato prospect did look blue enough in the early season.  But the grain, feed, beef and pork trade, also hay, butter, eggs, cheese, etc., has kept the markets going quite lively, while apparently dormant in the potato line.