Acreage and Value 7 



stable and railroad facilities develop, there is more and 

 more of a tendency for farm crops to be intensively 

 grown in certain areas where soil, climate and other factors 

 are best suited to them. This is especially true of a crop 

 like corn or wheat which is neither perishable nor very 

 bulky and can be easily shipped. This is becoming 



2-^.3 s% 



Fig. 3. Percentage of the potato crop of the United States which is 

 produced in each of the 15 states of largest production, 1902-1911. 



increasingly true of potatoes because of their bulkiness 

 and partial perishableness. 



Most of the potatoes raised in the United States are 

 still grown as a cash crop in relatively small parcels on 

 many farms. There is a tendency, however, toward the 

 development of potato-growing centers in widely sepa- 

 rated sections of the United States. By a careful inspec- 

 tion of the map on page 6 one can see that these areas 

 are located in Aroostook County, Maine, the Norfolk and 

 Eastern Shore trucking regions of Virginia and Maryland, 

 the Red River Valley of Minnesota and North Dakota, 

 the Kaw Valley of Kansas, the Greely and Carbondale 

 districts of Colorado, and the San Joaquin and Sacramento 

 valleys of California. 



