COSTS AND FARM PRACTICES IN PRODUCING POTATOES. 
2o 
Table 18. — Cultural practices on 50 farms in Steuben County, N. Y. — Potatoes, 
1919. 
Operation. 
Manure 
Applying straw 
Hauling fertilizer 
Applying fertilizer 
Plowing 
Plowing (tractor ) 
Harrowing (spring tooth) 
Harrowing (spike tooth). 
Rolling 
Floating 
Marking off 
Sprouting seed 
Treating seed 
Cutting seed 
Planting 
Planting (by hand) 
Cultivating: 
1 row.l-horse 
1 row,2-horse 
Spike tooth 
Flanker 
Weeder 
Spraying 
Spraying by hand 
Dusting by hand 
Bugging.." 
Digging 
Digging by hand 
licking up 
Sorting and grading 
Hauling to barn 
Hauling to market 
Farms. 
Num- 
ber 
Per- 
cent- 
age 
of 
total. 
Acre^. 
Covered. 
4 
16 
20 
98 
2 
94 
10 
10 
2 
76 
2 
14 
100 
s 
64 
70 
98 
18 
30 
46 
30 
34 
12 
2 
78 
26 
100 
16 
100 
100 
418 
29 
78. 5 
118.5 
546. 5 
14 
515. 5 
69 
52 
17 
364 
12 
101 
5H0. 5 
261 
299.5 
377 
554. 5 
111 
143 
282 
215 
171.5 
56 
4.5 
435.5 
125 
560.5 
2 7,045 
2 79,046 
2 66,105 
Per- 
cent- 
of 
total. 
U 
21 
98 
2 
92 
12 
9 
3 
65 
2 
18 
100 
47 
53 
20 
26 
50 
38 
31 
10 
1 
7s 
21 
100 
9 
100 
Most 
com- 
mon 
crew. 
L-2 
1-2 
1-2 
1-3 
1-3 
1-2 
1-2 
1-2 
1-2 
1 
1 
1-2 
1 
1-1 
1-2 
1-2 
1-2 
1-1 
1-2 
1 
1 
1 
1-2 
1 
2 
1 
1-2 
1-2 
Rate per 
day (once 
over). 
12.5 tons. . 
9.5 tons. . . 
13.2 acres.. 
7. 2 acres... 
1.7 acres... 
y.y acres... 
11.2 acres.. 
15.4 acres.. 
15 acres. .. 
10.5 acres.. 
60 bushels. 
98 bushels. 
22 bushels. 
3.6 acres... 
2.7 acres... 
Times 
over. 
2.7 
1.8 
1 
1 
1.2 
1 
1 
Hours per 
acre. 
Man. 
12.6 
4 
1.1 
1.5 
5.8 
0) 
10.4 
6.7 
'.7 
1.4 
2.2 
4.1 
3.8 
5.3 
7 
19.5 
21.9 
10.5 
6.3 
13.6 
Horse. 
24 
5.8 
2.3 
2. 5 
15.2 
0) 
7.8 
4.1 
1.3 
1.2 
1.8 
5.8 
10.4 
13.4 
2 
1.4 
1.6 
4.1 
13.3 
26.8 
1 Contract. 
2 Bushels. 
