UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



BULLETIN No. 695 i 



Contribution from tlie Bureau of Crop Estimates. 

 LEON M. ESTABROOK, Chief. 



Washington, D. C. 



October 16, 1918 



POTATOES: ACREAGE, PRODUCTION, FOREIGN 

 TRADE, SUPPLY, AND CONSUMPTION. 



By George K. Holmes, Division of Crop Records. 



CONTENTS. 



Sources, scope, and limitations 1 



Food habits 3 



Acreage 4 



Production 5 



Per acre 6 



Per capita 7 



Average value per acre 8 



Percentage of the supply 8 



Imports 8 



Percentage of production '9 



Percentage of the supply 9 



Supply 10 



Per capita 10 



Domestic exports 10 



Per capita 11 



Page. 



Domestic exports — Continued. 



Percentage of production H 



Percentage of consumption 11 



Foreign trade surplus 12 



Per capita 12 



Percentage of production 12 



Percentage of consumption 13 



Consumption 13 



Per capita 14 



Percentage of production 16 



Percentage of the supply 16 



Summaryfor 1905-1914 17 



Historical tables 18 



SOURCES, SCOPE, AND LIMITATIONS. 



Intelligent use of the statistical matter contained in this bulletin 

 depends on observing these explanations concerning its sources, scope, 

 and limitations: 



Area. — Of production: Contiguous United wStates, Of foreign 

 trade: Contiguous United States and, beginning with their inclusion 

 in national trade, Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico. Commodities re- 

 ceived by contiguous United States from Alaska, beginning July 1, 

 1902, ceased to be included in technical "imports" and became 

 "shipments" from the Alaska customs district, and so with Hawaii 

 for 1901 and Porto Rico for 1900. Similarly, "domestic exports" 

 from contiguous United States to these Possessions became "ship- 

 ments" in the years mentioned. There was a change from external 



Note. — This bulletin contains information which is of interest to the public at large as well as .to those 

 who are specially interested in potato production, trade, and consumption. 

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