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Going  South  to  Raise  Potatoes 
(Continued  from  Page  1491) 
March  and  April,  and  the  Texas  crop 
mostly  a  little  later.  There  is  plenty  of 
potato  land,  but  four-fifths  of  the  ship¬ 
ments  are  from  the  Hastings  district. 
Land  there  is  reported  available  at  $10 
to  $20  per  acre.  Some  of  the  fields  are 
grown  under  irrigation.  It  costs  about 
$4  per  barrel  to  raise  the  crop  when  the 
yield  is  fair,  say  40  barrels.  The  price 
is  usually  above  this  level.  Last  season’s 
yield  was  cut  severely  by  frost,  but  the 
price  reached  $20  in  New  York  and 
Chicago,  and  most  sales  were  above  $8. 
Texas  early  potato  sections  in  Browns¬ 
ville,  Laredo  and  Eagle  Lake  districts 
are  producers  for  Chicago,  St.  Louis, 
Kansas  City  and  other  western  markets. 
The  costs,  yield  and  prices  are  generally 
lower  than  in  Florida,  and  production 
varies  more  from  season  to  season.  Labor 
is  a  little  short  of  the  demand  in  both 
Florida  and  Texas,  but  supplies  fairly 
good.  Carlot  freight  from  Hastings  to 
New  York  is  99  cents  per  barrel  and 
Eagle  Lake  to  Chicago  79  cents  per 
100  lbs. 
The  general  market  outlook  will  de¬ 
pend  on  the  supply  of  old  northern  pota¬ 
toes  next  Spring,  and  on  the  early  acre¬ 
age  and  yield  in  the  South.  Early  po¬ 
tato  growers  made  money  last  season, 
and  may  overplant  this  year.  Much  spec¬ 
ial  information  is  given  in  free  bulletins 
like  “Irish  Potatoes  in  Florida,”  pub¬ 
lished  by  the  State  Experiment  Station 
at  Gainesville,  and  in  the  United  States 
Department  of  Agricultural  Farmers’ 
Bulletins  1050,  1205  and  1316,  all  on 
raising  and  marketing  southern  potatoes. 
G.  B.  F. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN.  —  Declaring 
that  as  long  as  high  prices  of  necessities 
pervail  as  a  result  of  duties  for  protec¬ 
tion  of  American  manufactured  goods  it 
is  right  'to  raise  or  equalize  the  tariff  on 
farm  products,  delegates  to  the  annual 
convention  of  the  Farmers'  Union  asked 
in  a  resolution  adopted  at  Omaha,  Neb., 
Nov.  21,  that  the  tariff  on  wheat  be  in¬ 
creased  to  50  cents  a  bushel. 
Swift  &  Co.,  packers,  will  decline  to 
“permit  the  Department  of  Agriculture 
to  place  auditors  permanently  in  their 
iffiees  with  power  to  examine  at  all  times 
their  books,  papers  and  other  documents,” 
according  to  a  statement  issued  Nov.  22 
by  L.  F.  Swift,  president  of  the  company. 
The  Swift  Company,  Wilson  &  Co.’s  and 
Cudahy  Packing  Company  were  directed 
by  Secretary  Wallace  to  make  their  rec¬ 
ords  available  to  government  auditors  not 
later  than  Nov.  22.  No  statements  were 
forthcoming  from  the  other  two  com¬ 
panies,  but  reports  indicate  that  they 
would  support  Swift  &  Co.’s  stand.  Rep¬ 
resentatives  of  all  three  indicated  their 
belief  that  Secretary  Wallace’s  order  in¬ 
volves  an  “invasion  of  constitutional 
rights.” 
More  persons  were  killed  or  wounded 
by  the  accidental  discharge  of  firearms 
during  the  1923  New  York  State  hunting 
season  than  by  any  other  means,  accord¬ 
ing  to  a  report  of  the  Conservation  Com¬ 
mission  covering  the  season  to  Nov.  15. 
A  total  of  20  persons  were  killed  and  77 
were  wounded,  the  report  said,  and  of 
these  five  were  killed  and  30'  wounded  by 
accidental  discharge  of  firearms.  Hunters 
were  unusually  numerous  this  year,  but 
while  four  more  people  were  killed  and 
nearly  twice  as  many  injured  as  last  year 
the  percentage  of  fatal  accidents  was 
only  26.  as  compared  with  40  per  cent 
during  the  1922  season. 
CONTENTS 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER,  DEC.  8,  1923 
FARM  TOPICS 
Estimating  Farm  Produce  by  Measuring...  1491 
Going  South  to  Raise  Potatoes  .  1491 
Seeding  to  Grass  in  Spring  .  1492 
Hope  Farm  Notes  . 1498 
LIVE  STOCK  AND  DAIRY 
Leading  Butter  and  Milk  Cows  .  1503 
Charcoal  for  Hogs  .  1506 
Mending  a  Stave  Silo  .  1506 
Buying  Cows  for  Hog  Feed  .  1507 
Varied  Grain  Ration  .  1507 
THE  HENYARD 
Plymouth  Co.,  Mass.,  Notes  .  1498 
Egg-laying  Contest  .  1509 
Warming  Drinking  Water  for  Hens  . 1509 
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The  Truck  Grower  Considers  Things  ....  1491 
Iron  as  Fertilizer  .  1492 
Growth  from  Stump  . 1492 
Propagating  Spruce  .  1492 
New  Plant  Immigrants  .  1494 
Propagating  Roses  .  1494 
Dispersion  of  Seed  .  1494 
WOMAN  AND  HOME 
From  Day  to  Day  .  1502 
Gunny-sack  Shopping  Bags  .  1502 
Winter  in  the  Country  . 1502,  1503 
Keeping  Sausage  and  Ham  .  1503 
The  Rural  Patterns  _ .  1503 
Good  Homemade  Baking  Powder  .  1503 
Use  for  Grain  Sacks  .  1503 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Responsibility  in  Co-operative  Work.. 1490,  1491 
Ownership  of  Fallen  Tree  .  1495 
Ownership  of  Manure  . 1495 
Posting  Muskrat  Land  . . .  1495 
Mortgage  on  Inherited  Property  .  1495 
Notes  from  the  Ox-team  Express  .  1498 
Editorial  .  1500 
There  is  No  Rural  School  Problem. .  1501 
Consolidated  School  and  Taxation  .  1501 
Unpaid  Taxes  in  New  York  State  .  1501 
Puublisher’s  Desk  .  1510 
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