152 THE POTATO 



Kansas State Board of Agriculture, in a consensus 

 of the detailed statements of forty representative 

 growers, reporting from thirty-two different Kan- 

 sas counties the crop averaging 122 bushels : 



Average cost of plowing $ 1 . 20 



Harrowing 54 



Seed 7.25 



Planting 1.35 



Cultivating 1.66 



Digging and marketing 8 . 85 



Wear and tear of tools and rental of land or interest 



on its value 4 . 42 



Total cost per acre, or 122 bushels $25.27 



Averages of other items, gathered from those 

 furnishing the forty foregoing reports, are as fol- 

 lows: 



Average number of years each of the forty reporters 



has raised potatoes in Kansas 18 



Average number of acres raised by each annually . 26 



Average quantity of seed planted per acre (bushels) 9 



Average yield per acre (bushels) 122 



Average value of potato land per acre .... $60.00 



Statements of ten of the growers reporting who are most 

 extensively producing potatoes for commercial purposes, in 

 the Kaw Valley, average as here shown: 



Average cost of plowing $ 1 . 45 



Harrowing 51 



Seed 8.05 



Planting 65 



Cultivating 1.46 



Digging and marketing 11.00 



Wear and tear of tools and rental of land or inter- 

 est on its value 6 . 85 



Total cost per acre, or 154 bushels .... $29 . 97 



