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It is not easy to determine the amount of the family con- 

 sumption of potatoes. It varies with different regions. 

 In a survey of 483 farm families quite widely scattered, 

 Funk found the average quantities and values of Irish 

 potatoes consumed annually to a person in the following 

 table : 



Table VIII 



The average, it will be seen, was 5.7 bushels to a person. 

 In the same survey was found an average of 4.6 persons 

 in the family, making a total of 26.22 bushels of potatoes 

 consumed to a family. Warren ^ gives the average quan- 

 tity of potatoes raised on the farm and used in the house 

 on 106 farms in Livingston County, New York, in 1909 

 as 50.3 bushels and the average amount to an individual 

 as 10.1 bushels. This is much higher than the figures 

 Funk obtained in his survey, but even at this high figure, 

 it is clearly seen that most farmers have at least a few 

 bushels of potatoes to sell. 



1 Warren, G. F. "Farm Management," p. 24. 



