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THE POTATO 



tractive inducements in prices, usually quite in 

 excess of those realized by growers elsewhere, 



"The foregoing pertains to Irish potatoes ex- 

 clusively, but sweet potatoes are likewise grown 

 more or less in about four fifths of the counties, 

 most extensively and successfully, however, in 

 the valleys of the Kansas and Arkansas rivers. 

 The six counties of Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaun-j 

 see, Shawnee, Wyandotte, and Sedgwick yield] 

 annually about one half or more of the state's out- 

 put, which in the past twenty years has varied] 

 from 779,783 bushels in 1889 to 212,468 bushels u 

 1897." 



The cost of growing potatoes in these districts] 

 is found in Chapter XIII. 



