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Potato Acreage Down From 1921 Iowa report says
Des Moines June 14 The weather favors root crops especially potatoes but corn is less favored. Secretary R S Herrick of the state horticultural department notes that early potato acreage is about 6 percent below 1926 and below normal overall. Prices high due to exhausted old stock and south state floods. Iowa spud crop in 1925 1926 below average. 1926 acreage 8 percent under 1925. Spuds seen as a paying crop with many townships adopting it as profitable.
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Courier Special Service
Des Moines
R. S. Herrick
State Horticultural Department
Iowa
Herrick
Canada
Co. F. Fitch
Iowa State College