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County, New York, in the Women's National Potato 

 Contest of 1888. She grew the White Elephant variety 

 on one-twentieth of an acre at the rate of 1061 bushels to 

 the acre. 



In the United States the average yield of potatoes from 

 one plant is about one-half pound. Some plants of 

 Early Ohio have been known to yield thirteen tubers 

 weighing 2| pounds, and others of the same variety to 

 produce three tubers weighing ^ an ounce. The former 

 yield is 80 times the latter. Some English experiments 

 have produced twenty pounds of tubers to a plant, as 

 many as 150 tubers being set on one plant. 



The climate of Canada is well suited to the produc- 

 tion of potatoes. The cool summers produce a yield to 

 the acre that compares very favorably with the best 

 regions of the United States. The average number of 

 acres devoted to this crop for the years 1910-13 was 

 476,000, upon which an average yield of 152.46 bushels 

 to the acre was secured, making an average total yield 

 for the four years of 72,569,000 bushels. 



In the five fiscal years 1910-14, Canada exported an 

 average of 1,451,990 bushels of potatoes each year, of 

 which 376,406 bushels were sent to the United States. 



