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The Potato 



Cost op Growing 



Amount 



Amount 



Seed 



Fertilizer 



Manure 



Spray materials . . . 



Man labor 



Horse labor 



Use of equipment . . . 



Land 



Buildings 



All other costs .... 

 Total cost of growing per 



acre 



Total cost of growing per 



bushel 



Cost of marketing per acre 

 Cost of marketing per 



bushel 



Profit per acre .... 

 Profit per bushel . . . 

 Profit per man, hour . . 



10.2 bu. 

 120.0 lbs. 

 2.3 tons 



66.0 hrs. 

 68.9 hrs. 



$9.48 



1.66 



4.61 



.20 



11.55 



10.33 



3.45 



3.00 



.81 



.45 



45.54 



.35 



.054 

 2.22 

 .02 

 .03 



12 bu. 

 407 lbs. 

 3.4 tons 



110.4 hrs. 

 88.6 hrs. 



$6.79 



5.77 



7.21 



.22 



17.65 



10.20 



3.94 



7.00 



1.56 



.12 



60.68 



.33 

 6.32 



.044 

 36.72 

 .21 

 .33 



Place — Utah. 



Authority — Harper, W. F., Smithfield, Utah. Quoted 

 in Grubb and Guilford, "The Potato." 



Plowing, harrowing and leveling the land $5.00 



Fifteen loads of manure at 25 cents per load .... 3.75 



Hauling manure at 75 cents per load 11.25 



Seed 10.00 



Cutting and planting seed 9.00 



Cultivating, weeding and irrigating 5.00 



Picking and sacking 10.00 



Loading on car 4.50 



$59.00 



Results of a survey in New York state 



In the agricultural survey of Tompkins County, 

 Warren, Livermore, and others: "The potato crop ranks 



