300 POTATOES. [PART ir. 



PRODUCE OF AN ACRE OF POTATOES. 



288. Seven tons, or 350 bushels, is a good 

 crop ; but ten tons, Or 500 bushels may be 

 grown. 



Pounds' of Potatoes. 



t Ten tons, or . 22,400 



Pounds of Flour. 



Ten pounds of Potatoes contain 



one pound of flpur ..,...,. 2,240 



Pound? of Bread. 



Which would, if it were possible 

 to extract the flour and get it in 

 a dry state, make of bread . . 2,880 



289. Thus., then, the nutritions contents of 

 the Potatoes surpasses that of the wheat but 

 by a few pounds ; but to get at those contents, 

 unaccompanied with nine times their weight in 

 earth, straw, and water, is impossible. Nine 

 pounds of earth, straw and water must, then, 

 be swallowed, in order to get at the one pound 

 of flour! 



290. I beg to be understood as saying no 

 thing against the cultivation of potatoes in any 

 place, or near any place where .there are people 



to consume them at half a dollar 



