SMUGGLING OF POTATOES
IT.S. FARMERS SEEK PROFITS WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. Potatoes are being smuggled into the United States, which has already a surplus of 50,000,000 bushels. A Customs official said to-day that potato smuggling was now a bigger problem than diamond smuggling. American farmers were smuggling in Canadian potatoes costing 85 cents a bushel. They added them to homegrown crops, turned the lot over to the United States Government, and received the payment of 125 cents a bushel guaranteed under the price support programme. Officials said the racket was costing the 'Government hundreds of thousands of dollars. Border patrols had seized more than 100,000 bushels of illicit potatoes.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 104, 15 February 1950, Page 5
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108SMUGGLING OF POTATOES Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 104, 15 February 1950, Page 5
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