436 THE POTATO 



" No special attention is given to storing potatoes 

 in that country. They are generally stored by the 

 producer in a building with a ground floor on a 

 level with the surface of the ground quite open to 

 the air. There are no cellars in that part of Chile. 



"There is no way of ascertaining the yield per 

 acre, the cost of production, nor the profit per 

 acre, since no account of such things is kept. 



"Potatoes are sold in Chiloe Island by the pro- 

 ducer, both to the consumer and the dealer, who 

 may be a grocer, baker, butcher, generally mer- 

 chant in fact, almost every business house han- 

 dles them." 



