288 The Potato 



"If potatoes are worth 50 cents a bushel, this crop 

 would sell for $75, leaving a profit of $30.50 per acre, 

 not deducting rent or interest or taxes. 



"If, however, the grower produces a 600-bushel crop, 

 the cost of producing (figuring twice as much seed and 

 increased cost of the operations) would be about $95.75. 

 The crop would sell (at 50 cents a bushel) for $300, leav- 

 ing a profit of $204.25." 



Place — Colorado. 



Authority — Greeley Commercial Club. 



Plowing $2.50 



Leveling and harrowing 1.00 



Seed 5.00 



Planting 1.50 



Cultivating 2.50 



Irrigating 1.50 



Digging 7.50 



Sacks 7.50 



Marketing 6.00 



Total $35.00 



"This estimate is based on what is considered a good 

 yield of from 200 to 300 bushels per acre. The first six 

 items are practically uniform whatever the yield may be, 

 while the last three depend upon the yield per acre, so 

 that a poor yield or a failure reduces the cost per acre 

 by about one-half and an extremely large yield increases 

 it accordingly. 



" The price of Colorado potatoes has a wide range from 

 year to year, but the average price for the past ten years 

 has been 65 cents per hundred pounds." 



Place — Kansas. Forty representative growers from 

 thirty-two different counties. 



Authority — Report of Kansas State Board of Agri- 

 culture, 1904. 



