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liUIiAL NEW YORK 



had their largest production hetvveen 1800 and 1880. 

 The soils on wliieh potatoes are gi'own vary con- 

 siderahly as to series hut agree (juite closely as to 

 texture. They are all a sandy to silty loam. None 

 is heavy clay or light sand. In the southern part of 

 western New York, potatoes are grown on the hill 

 lands on the Lordstown and Wooster loam and silt 

 loam. The Volusia series in the same region is very 

 much less suitable for the crop, probably because of 

 its poor drainage. Both the former series are fairly 



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Fig. 24. Graphs showing by five-year periods the area in 

 potatoes, hops, dry beans, and cabbage. 



well drained, deep and well oxidized. Near the On- 

 tario Lake shore, the Dunkirk and the Ontario fine 

 sandy loams are most utilized. In western New 

 York, late potatoes are a staple general farm crop in 

 rotation and receive from four to eight hundred 

 pounds of a complete fertilizer to the acre. The 

 third center of production is in Clinton and Franklin 

 counties, largely in the siliceous sandy and stony 

 mountain soils of the Coloma series. Their best 

 yield is on rather open fine sandy loam at an eleva- 

 tion of 1200 to 1800 feet. Often potatoes are the 



