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THE POTATO 



practical, money-making potato grower doing ex- 

 perimental and demonstration plot work with the 

 various combinations of fertilizer. Barnyard ma- 

 nure had been applied to all of the plots. 



The use of 1,200 pounds of commercial fer- 

 tilizer in addition to barnyard manure gave an 

 additional yield of seven tons per acre, at an ex- 

 pense of $22, or about $3 per ton for the excess; 

 yield. 



Mr. Hannah is a contented, satisfied, tenant] 

 farmer. He has made a great success in special- 

 ized potato growing for the early markets, onj 

 high priced, high rate, rented lands. He is prob- 

 ably worth over $200,000, and is living a life ol 

 comfort in a beautiful home. He has servants,! 

 beautifully kept lawns, parks and gardens, with allj 

 kinds of fruits and flowers, and a conservatory for] 

 growing hothouse plants and fruits out of season. 

 This is agriculture on ideal lines. The house he 

 lives in is 102 years old. 



The popular opinion in America is that it is dis- 

 graceful, undignified, and belittling to be a ten- 

 ant farmer. But here is a tenant farmer who has 

 acquired a quarter of a million dollars as a potato 

 grower, but he is a specialist and he specializes 

 to such an extent that he has more leisure for 

 travel and pleasurable recreation than merchants, 

 mechanics, or professional men, or any well-to-do 

 farmer in America who owns his land, occupies, 

 and farms it. 



These tenant farmers are paying high land ren-j 

 tals and for expensive fertilizers, $5.60 a ton im- 

 port duties on potatoes into the United States and! 

 ocean rates, yet they can successfully compete! 

 with the American farmer with all his improved] 

 implements and cheap lands. 



