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Excerpt from Markets for Potatoes: Markets and Market Conditions; Production; Costs; Prices to Producers; Starch, Alcohol, Stockfood, Flour, and Other Industrial Uses of Potatoes; General Information on the Marketing Feature of the Potato Industry
The yearly per capita consumption of potatoes in Germany is bushels. In the United States, bushels. See page 13.
Imports of potatoes into this country now are admitted free of duty. The freight rate on potatoes from Portland to the Atlantic Coast. Via the Panama Canal is 30 cents per cwt.
It may be of advantage to combine shipments of potatoes with onions. Care should be taken, though, as onions deteriorate quickly, and a recent shipment through the Panama Canal to New York was almost a total loss due to spoiling. See pages 17 and 28.
While Oregon may not have starch or other factories for the industrial use of potatoes, this is one of the best states of the Union in which to raise hogs, and converting potatoes into pork generally may be a much more profitable process than starch making, a plant that every farmer can have close at home. See pages 28-33.
Imports of potatoes into the United States make an investigation of the cost of production and marketing of our crops a very important feature, and a careful study of Tables 2, 3 and the entire chapter on cost data should be of value to the Oregon farmer in demonstrating the competition he must meet and the conditions under which he must meet it. See pages 8, 9, 20-26.
Note the comparative prices received by Oregon producers in 1912, 1913 and 1914, as against the other Far Western states and the average for the United States. See pages 10, 20 and 22.
In considering the above note also the comparative costs Of production as shown by Tables 14 and 15. See pages 22 and 23.
At one time the United States supplied the Philippine market with practically all the potatoes used. Now Japan ships large quantities to the Philippines, and practically supplies the entire Asiatic market, driving out the United States from this profitable field.
In Germany the profits of the potato crop and the low cost of fertilizers justify the liberal use Of them to an extent not practiced in this country. See page 13.
Until a surplus above the needs for table purposes is produced, and means provided for disposing of it at a profit to the grower, the present succession of fat and lean years must be expected, and just so long potato growing for market will be a Speculative enterprise, See page 13.
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