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THE POTATO 



143 



Digging with four horses 2.50 



Picking up and storing 3 . 00 



Marketing three-mile haul 6 . 00 



Manure 5.00 



Interest on value of land $100, at 6 per cent. . . 6 . 00 



$38.94 



If the crop makes 250 bushels and sells for 40 

 cents a bushel, the profit will be as follows : 



250 bushels at 40 cents $100.00 



Cost of production 38.94 



$ 61.06 



Lawrence G. Dodge, scientific Assistant in the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, gives, in "Farmers' 

 Bulletin 465" of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, the following: 



"The accompanying table represents the usual 

 expense of growing an acre of potatoes in Aroo- 

 stook County, Maine, and in many parts of Mich- 

 igan and Wisconsin. In fact, the second column of 

 figures will represent the expense put into growing 

 the crop in most localities where potato growing 

 is carried on, on a less expensive and through- 

 going basis: 



*For beetles only 



