THE POTATO 153 



Range of price per bushel $0.14 to $1.15 per bushel. 

 Average price per bushel Kaw Valley on board cars 



is about 37 



Average number of years each of these ten reporters 



has raised potatoes in Kansas 18 



Average number of acres raised by each annually . 80 



Average quantity of seed planted per acre (bushels) 10.4 



Average yield per acre (bushels) 153.7 



Average value of potato land per acre .... $105.00 



Incidentally, by these forty reports it is noted 

 that the number of times the ground is harrowed 

 ranges from one to four and in one it is given as 

 eight; in some cases the ground is disked also; 

 and in the Kaw Valley it is not uncommon for 

 some of the more extensive growers to plow their 

 potato ground twice. 



Likewise, in the more western counties, in 

 cases where the crop is mulched with a covering 

 of straw or hay where irrigated, the cost of cul- 

 tivating, which includes these items, is propor- 

 tionately higher, owing to extra labor in the first 

 instance and more frequent cultivating in the 

 second. 



In the item of planting, the cost to Kaw Valley 

 growers is lessened by the quite general use of ma- 

 chine planters. 



