THE POTATO 149 



Horse work, 15 days at $1 $15.00 



Labor, 12 days at $2 24.00 



Additional charges are as follows: 



Twine 75 



Sacks 350 sacks at 6| cents each 22 . 75 



Hauling 13.80 



1,750 pounds of seed at 2 cents per pound . . . 35.00 



Twelve loads of manure at $1 per load . . . 12.00 

 Rent of land (6 per cent, on valuation of $200 per 



acre) 12.00 



$125.30 



The yield was as follows 



Gross weight . . . . 38,685 pounds 644 . 75 bushels 

 Less Culls .... 4,150 pounds 



Marketable , . . 34,535 pounds 575.5 bushels 



Estimating the returns from the crop at $1 

 per hundred, or 60 cents a bushel, the market- 

 able potatoes are worth $345.35, a profit of 

 $220.05 without figuring the waste potatoes. 

 With waste potatoes at $5 a ton, the total revenue 

 is $10.40 more, or $230.45. 



Ashel Smith, a successful grower and exhibitor 

 of potatoes of Ladner, British Columbia, says 

 that he pays $25 an acre per year rent for land in 

 sod, and that some sod land would be worth a 

 rental of $50 for growing potatoes. 



When land that has been in sod from three to 

 ten years can be secured, no commercial fertilizer 

 is used. The sod is thoroughly disked to a depth 

 of six inches (even if six diskings are required) be- 

 fore plowing. 



Where sprouted whole seed is used the earliness 

 of the crop is increased three weeks as compared 



