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bulky, the crop is riot necessarily highly remunerative. 

 Few growers average ten tons all round, taking a 

 number of seasons together, as frost, disease, insects, 

 drought, and other causes, tend to reduce the yield 

 very materially. Where a fair proportion of early 

 varieties are grown in the open, the yield is not often 

 over seven tons. When the large number of unskilled 

 growers are taken into consideration, and the various 

 hindrances to development, which are so frequent, are 

 remembered, it is difficult to believe that the average 

 yield of saleable potatoes actually planted exceeds six 

 tons per acre, and we believe it to be less. Such a 

 low estimate should not, however, prevent those who 

 are about to sell a standing crop from estimating the 

 individual crop to the full. For all that, it is amusing 

 to hear those who have no previous experience in 

 growing on a large scale estimate the yield of their 

 crop. We have frequently heard double the actual 

 yield guessed, the basis of the turnip crop being taken ; 

 but another tale is told when the crop is sent to 

 market. 



