CHAPTER XIII 



COST OF GROWING POTATOES YIELD 

 PRICES PROFITS 



fTTlHE yield of a crop of potatoes, the cost of 

 growing and the consequent profits, vary 



* not only with conditions, but with indi- 

 vidual operators under similar conditions. In 

 common with every other phase of agriculture, 

 and everything else in the world, the individuality 

 of the man in charge is the most potent factor. 



The price is a proposition that the individual 

 grower has no control of and varies with the 

 world's supply and demand. 



Average yields do not represent the possibilities 

 of the business, and are not fair to the industry. 

 The best growers always produce crops far in ex- 

 cess of the average for a district or a community. 

 The average producer of potatoes is not a potato 

 grower in the strict sense of the term he is 

 simply a farmer growing potatoes and giving little, 

 if any, thought or study to the "reasons why" for 

 various operations. 



The estimates and figures which follow regard- 

 ing prices of the various operations and the profits 

 in potato growing show the possibilities and prob- 

 abilities in various sections. The best grower may 

 make larger profits than some of these poor 

 growers much less. 



In the Twin Falls country in southern Idaho 

 the yield of potatoes is from 100 to 700 bushels 



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