NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART I 
63 
POTATOES— 1880, 1885, 1890. 
Statistics Compiled from Reports of Secretary of Iowa Agricultural Society. 
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a o 
2 
SSS 
> 
Year 
s 
o 
verage 
value p 
bushel 
1st 
CO 
> 
o 
< 
H 
< 
H 
<i5 
1880 
95 
10,165,000 
$.35 
$3,557,750 
107,000 
1885 
83 
12,874,000 
.40 
5,149,600 
157,000 
1890 
49 
8,332,352 
.81 
6,749,205 
170,048 
POTATOES— 1896-1908. 
Statistics compiled from Reports of Crop Service Division of Iowa State Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. 
Year 
2 
(-1 (-1 
< 
2 
O 
Average farm 
value per 
bushel Dec. 
1st 
> 
o 
< 
1896 
87 
60 
76 
98 
78 
37.4 
91 
53.8 
125 
84 
101 
84 
89.9 
14,814,795 
10,051,910 
12,538,410 
15,252,934 
10,850,900 
5,098,460 
12,051,670 
6,082,694 
14,255,680 
9,352,190 
11,697,500 
9,847,430 
10,658,290 
$.21 
.45 
.31 
.24 
.40 
.90 
.34 
.75 
.28 
.50 
.48 
.62 
.59 
$2,962,950 
4,523,360 
3,826,900 
3,660,714 
4,340,360 
4,588,610 
4,095,650 
4,562,020 
3,991,590 
4,676,045 
5,614,800 
6,105,406 
6,288,391 
170,285 
163,248 
164,456 
154,243 
149,680 
136,300 
138,484 
113,433 
113,250 
111,335 
1897 
1898 
1899 
1900 
*1901 -- - - 
1902 
tl903 
1904 
1905 
1906 
1907 
117,350 
118,517 
1908 
Average 
82 
10,965,606 
$.47 
$4,556,676 
135,838 
*Very dry. 
fVery wet. 
