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The Potato 



Cost of Growing 



Seed 



Fertilizer .... 

 Manure .... 

 Spray materials 

 Man labor . . . 

 Horse labor . . . 

 Use of equipment . 



Land 



Buildings .... 

 All other costs . 

 Total cost of growing 

 acre 



per 



per 



Total cost of growing 

 bushel .... 



Cost of marketing per acre 



Cost of marketing per 

 bushel 



Profit per acre . . . . 



Profit per bushel . . . 



Profit per man, hour . 



Amount 



10.2 bu. 

 120.0 lbs. 

 2.3 tons 



66.0 hrs. 

 68.9 hrs. 



1.66 



4.61 



.20 



11.55 



10.33 



3.45 



3.00 



.81 



.45 



45.54 



.35 



5.80 



.054 

 2.22 

 .02 

 .03 



Amount 



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 S5.00 



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 



