COSTS AND FARM PRACTICES T>7 PRODUCING POTATOES. ] 9 
Table 14. — Cultural practices on 47 farms in Barron County, Wis. — Potatoes, 1919. 
Operation. 
Manure 
Plow: 
Team 
Tractor 
Harrow: 
Spike 
Spring 
Disk 
Float 
Marking olT 
Treating seed 
Catting seed 
Planting 
Planting by hand. . 
Cultivating: 
1 nor- . 
2 horse 
Spike tooth 
Hoeing 
Spraying 
Spraying by hand . 
Dusting by hand . . 
Digging 1 .' 
Dieirins by hand. . 
Picking up 
Hauling t o barn . . . 
Hauling to market. 
Farm*. 
Num 
ber. 
Per- 
cent- 
age 
of 
total, 
91 
26 
87 
4 
32 
15 
100 
32 
.53 
83 
94 
34 
43 
34 
32 
87 
9 
100 
100 
Acres. 
Covered. 
300 
34^ 
33 
337 
102 
322 
19 
• 
88 
381 
262 
200 
320 
349 
92 
202 
85 
104 
342 
15 
3 SO 
2 15. 798 
Per- 
cent- 
age 
of 
total. 
Most 
com- 
mon 
crew. 
Rate per 
day (once 
over). 
27 
5 
31 
23 
100 
69 
31 
53 
84 
92 
24 
53 
22 
27 
90 
4 
100 
27 
2-3 21.5 tons. 
1-2 2.4 acres... 
1 9 acres 
1-2 
1-3 
1-3 
1-2 
1-2 
1 
1 
1-2 
1-1 
1-2 
1-2 
1 
1-2 
1 
1 
1-4 
4 
1-2 
1-2 
16. S acres.. 
9.4 acres... 
5.7 acres... 
16 acres... 
14.2 acres.. 
78 bushels. 
20 bushels. 
4.7 acres... 
1.7 acres... 
4.8 acres... 
5.3 acres... 
16.4 acres.. 
1.7 acres... 
12.4 acres 
2.9 acres.. 
4.6 acres... 
3.1 acres.. 
. 2 acre. . . 
2.1 acres.. 
281 bushels 
116 bushels 
Times 
over. 
Hours per 
acres. 
Horse. 
1 
l 
1.9 
1.7 
1.7 
1 
1.7 
1 
1 
1 
1 
3.7 
3.9 
2.4 
1.1 
2.4 
2.5 
1.8 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
14.9 
4.5 
1.1 
1.3 
2.0 
3.3 
.6 
1.3 
2.8 
6.3 
2.5 
6.1 
7.8 
7.8 
1.6 
11.1 
2.4 
11.6 
5.3 
4.4 
39.0 
27 
8 
14.7 
24.3 
2.9 
6. 
1.3 
- 
- 
15. 7 
3.8 
*r»es on one ianfl were dug by contract and on another with a digger drawn by r 
- Hushels. 
