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Research Bulletin No. 1 
Table 1. — Acreage and yield of potatoes during 1909 in counties 
producing 100,000 or more bushels. 
Counties 
Box Butte . . . 
Brown 
Cass 
Cherry 
Cuming 
Custer 
Dakota 
Dawes . . 
Dodge 
Douglas 
Holt 
Lancaster . . . 
Morrill 
Otoe 
Platte 
Saunders 
Scott's Bluff . 
Sheridan . . . 
Sioux 
Washington 
Totals 
Totals for 
Nebraska . 
the 
Acres 
7,020* 
2,197* 
1,305 
2,978* 
1,280 
2,410 
1,907 
2,322* 
1,406 
2,509 
1,791 
2,2*7 
1,535 
1,512 
1,442 
1,363 
6,452 
8,590* 
2,688* 
1,251 
54,225 
111,151 
Bushels 
303,918* 
174,862* 
112,103 
150,105* 
125,608 
159,308 
142,798 
124,782* 
121,574 
231,177 
130,371 
170,561 
107,156 
137,484 
127,674 
123,315 
774,815 
668,309* 
191,051* 
104,168 
4,181,139 
8,117,775 
* These are the counties in the Sand 
where this dry rot is most prevalent. 
Hill and High Plains regions 
Map showing the location of the Sand Hill and High Plains regions and 
indicating by name the counties each of which during 1909 produced 
100,000 or more bushels of potatoes. 
The losses from this dry rot have in some cases been very 
severe. The situation became so serious that during the spring 
