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TEXAS POTATO PRICES. 
We have been told that prices for early 
potatoes shipped from Texas last Spring 
were too low for profit. What are the 
facts? 
As regards the potato situation in 
Texas, the business is rather a compli¬ 
cated one. To begin with, most of us 
are as yet new in the business. Hardly 
anybody thought of growing (Irish) po¬ 
tatoes for northern markets prior to 
the invasion of the cotton boll-weevil, 
about 10 years ago. For this reason a 
good deal has yet to be learned by 
many of us, before we can make a per¬ 
fect success of it. Some people have 
a notion that a potato is a potato, and 
that they ought all to sell alike, no mat¬ 
ter what size or condition they might 
be in. ThttSj I have seen stuff loaded 
into a car, big, little, scabbed and 
specked, all mixed together; a combina¬ 
tion that would be dear anywhere at 35 
cents per bushel. Of course, such stuff 
hardly paid expenses of shipping, when 
the final returns came in. In parts of 
our State, where the business is better 
understood, and good stock is produced, 
there ar,e usually buyers (representatives 
of northern houses) on hand to buy the 
good delivered on track at a given price. 
But here is where the necessity comes 
in of keeping posted on markets. Those 
buyers are a shrewd lot, and they are 
out for all the money they can make, 
and to many of them it makes no dif¬ 
ference as to how this money is made. 
For instance, two years ago last Spring 
in an eastern Texas town there were 
two such buyers, one representing a Chi¬ 
cago, the other a St. Louis house. A 
fine lot of potatoes was growing around 
the country close by. About May 20 
some started digging; prices were good 
and everybody felt all right. Those buy¬ 
ers bought a car each at about 90 cents 
per bushel, and made it a point to tell 
everybody that the potato market was 
never better, and that by a certain dav 
growers should bring in all that could 
possibly be got ready, and they would pay 
the very highest market prices for them. 
On the appointed day potatoes from far 
and near came in abundance, every one 
digging who could, even before fully 
matured, in anticipation of high prices. 
The buyers played their game, the goods 
were in sight, no prices had been named, 
and all they offered was 50 cents per 
ton, saying that the markets had gone 
to pieces, and to back up their state¬ 
ments they showed some bogus tele¬ 
grams. As was to be expected, thev 
got what potatoes they wanted at their 
own prices. The few who knew better 
and refused to sell at 50 cents held on 
to their stock, and got a dollar a bushel 
for it two weeks later. 
Before crop is matured some are often 
taken out by hand, one or two from a 
hill, packed into one-third bushel boxes 
and shipped by express. These often 
bring at the rate of $3 per bushel, but 
in my mind it is doubtful as to whether 
this pays in the end. The writer him¬ 
self has grown potatoes for many years 
successfully and has found, by storing 
after digging in a cool place, that the 
crop will bring most money by holding 
it say six weeks or so for the home mar¬ 
ket, when a dollar per bushel is the 
usual price. Unfortunately for us, the 
crop matures just at the beginning of hot 
weather, and unless care is taken to pre¬ 
vent them from getting too hot, serious 
loss often results, the tubers not keep¬ 
ing. The crop is generally off the 
ground in time to plant a good second 
crop of either sweet potatoes, late to¬ 
matoes, cotton, or where irrigation is 
practiced, a Fall crop of cabbages. Thus 
a potato crop, where properly managed, 
pays fairly well in bringing in early 
money, and leaves that ground in a good 
condition for another crop the same 
season. Potatoes, in one sense, are here 
produced with less trouble than is the 
case farther north. I have never yet 
found it necessary to poison for Potato 
beetles, nor spray for mildew or rot. 
i he variety mostly grown is Bliss Tri¬ 
umph, an early kind, which seems to 
be best adapted to our wants in a gen¬ 
eral way. J. W. STUBENRAUCH. 
Mole Crickets. 
A'. C'., Lacy, Ga. —I send by mail a box 
with two dead "ground puppies,” as they 
are called around here. They destroy every 
kind of seed, and burrow like little' moles, 
ana will ruin roots of grass. Can you tell 
me how I may rid my garden of them? 
A ns. —The insects sent in the box 
'■ere mole crickets, so-called because 
they have their front feet formed for 
'hgging and burrow like a mole. Usually 
they work only in damp, moist soils, 
’'ence drainage will ordinarily force 
tnem to leave. If this cannot be done, 
yr ts not done, they may be controlled 
t airly well by distributing poisoned 
i'tuts of grated Irish potatoes or carrots 
here and there in the soil where the 
crickets are present. Poison the material 
with white arsenic, glen w. herrick. 
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