TRUCKING. 



Production and Care of Tomatoes. 



The ideal method of growing tomato plants is by starting 

 the seed in a green house late in winter, but most growers have no 

 green house facilities and must make use of the hotbed for early 

 plants. 



The manure hotbed is most commonly used. A manure hot- 

 bed may be very cheaply constructed ; for information on hotbed 

 construction see chapter on "Planning and Adorning the Farm- 

 stead and School Grounds." 



Potatoes. 



The potato is a modified form of the stem of the potato plant, 

 called a tuber. Potatoes are propagated from tuber cuttings. 



Some idea of the importance of the potato crop in the United 

 States may be formed from the fact that for the last five years 

 we have been producing over 3,600,000 acres of potatoes and the 

 production has averaged about one hundred bushels per acre. 



Statistics. 



AVERAGES OF ACREAGE PRODUCTION, BUSHELS PER ACRE, AND FARM 



PRICE FOR POTATOES, IN FIVE-YEAR PERIODS, 



l868 TO 1912 IN U. S. 



PROBLEM. 



1. What is our average production per capita if our population is 

 estimated at 100,000,000 people? 



