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not very highly organized, and exact market information 

 is very difficult to obtain. 



Early and late potatoes 



The earliest potatoes to reach the northern markets 

 come from the Bermudas and Texas in January and 

 February. Florida and other southern states add to the 

 supply a little later, and about the first of June a large 

 quantity begins to come in from Virginia and other south 

 central states. 



Early potatoes from southern New Jersey enter the 

 market about July twentieth and those from the northern 

 part of the state and from Long Island about ten days to 

 two weeks later. Early potatoes from New York and 

 Maine are usually marketed between the first and fifteenth 

 of September. The southern potatoes have little effect 

 upon the price paid for northern-grown potatoes, providing 

 they are out of the market by August. If southern pota- 

 toes are late in reaching the northern markets, potatoes from 

 New Jersey, Long Island and Pennsylvania are sold in com- 

 petition with them and consequently bring a lower price. 



The main crop of late potatoes begins to come into the 

 market early in October. From then on, the extent of 

 the sales and the price for a bushel depend upon many 

 factors. Chief among these is the supply of potatoes then 

 upon the market. 



Markets 



The larger potato markets of the United States are New 

 York, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Den- 

 ver, San Francisco and Boston. Chicago handles annually 

 about 24,000 cars, or over 60 cars a day. Each of these 



