CHAPTER XXIX 



NORTH ATLANTIC STATES 



A REPORT of the potato industry in Maine 

 and New York is given as typical of the 

 states covered in this classification. 

 The potato is an excellent rotation crop on a 

 general farm in this territory, and there are dis- 

 tricts in it that produce as fine seed potatoes as are 

 grown in the world. 



MAINE 



The following article is by Mr. E. L. Cleveland, 

 of Houlton, Maine, one of the best potato author- 

 ities in America : 



*' Aroostook County, Maine, covers an area 

 equal to that of the state of Massachusetts, 

 growing and shipping annually approximately 

 30,000 car loads, or about 18,000,000 bushels of 

 potatoes. 



"By reason of its northern latitude, and the 

 virgin soil in which the potatoes are grown, they 

 inherit those staple and vigorous qualities which 

 make them at once the best and most valuable seed 

 obtainable, as well as the most desirable table pota- 

 toes known to the general trade. 



"The most improved methods and machinery 

 are here used, and probably no potato-growing 

 county within any state in the Union can show 



