I HI SH POTATOES ; PRODUCTION, FARM DISPOSITION,. AND VALUE, Ff STATES, 1946 CROP 
: "Season aver- :_ _ 
Group : age price per : Value 
arid i bu. received ; of • • ? 
S_tate _:_ _by_ f armers_ _ i_ _p£odu_ction 
Dollars 
SURPLUS LATE STATES 
Value of pota- 
toes for farm 
household use_ _ 
" ~ Thousand 
Value 
of 
sales_ 
dollars 
"Value of sales 
and farm 
household use 
Maine 
New York 
Pennsylvania 
Mi chi gan 
Wisconsin 
Minnesota 
North Dakota 
South Dakota 
Nebraska 
Montana 
Idaho 
Wyoming 
Colorado 
Utah 
Nevada 
Washington 
Oregon 
'California Ull) 
TOTAL 18 
2/ 
1,08 
1,27 
1.45 
1.22 
1.27 
1*18 
1,06 
1*50 
1.03 
1,48 
o 90 
1.03 
1..12 
1„28 
1,36 
1.29 
1.36 
1,34 
84,674 
54,610 
29,096 
22,359 
15,069 
20,491 
19,875 
4,263 
12,077 
3,271 
40,851 
2,618 
22,154 
4,262 
914 
13,055 
18,387 
62,069 
'1717 "?30,C T 9"5* 
756 
3,007 
3,589 
3,026 
4,331 
3,402 
1,399 
1,008 
1,137 
477 
328 
54 
240 
146 
31 
433 
326 
92 
23T7"B2 
78,249 
47,903 
22,265 
14,695 
8 ,,150 
14,009 
15,905 
2,594 
9,617 
2,186 
35,636 
2,205 
17,210 
• 3*429 
694 
11,575 
14,521 
60,402 
3617245 
79,005 
50,910 
25,854 
17,721 
12,481 
17,411 
17,304 
3.602 
10; 754 
2,663 
35,964 
2,259 
17,450 
3,575 
725 
12,008 
14,847 
60,494 
OTHER LATE STATES - 
f New Hampshire 
l e 64 
2,050 
421 
1,478 
1,899 
Vermont 
1.63 
2,269 
709 
1,253 
1,962 
Massachusetts 
1,69 
6,091. 
733 
5,087 
5,820 
Rhode Island 
1.57 
2,735 
61 
2,543 
2,604 
Connecticut 
1.54 
6,764 
411 
5,997 
6,408 
West Virginia 
1*73 
4,948 
3,200 
1,009 
4 5 209 
Ohio 
1*73 
13,079 
3,508 
8,437 
11,945 
Indiana 
lo60 
7,168 
2,016 
4,224 
6,240 
Illinois 
1*65 
2,911 
2,079 
478 
2,557 
Iowa 
lo65 
4,752 
2,904 
1,242 
4,146 
New Mexico 
1*57 
534 
25 
449 
474 
TOTAL 11 
1.64 
53,301 
16,067 
32,197 
48,264 
29 LATE. STATES 
1,20 
~" 483, 396 ~ ~ 
39~ 5 8"49 
393", 442 
433,291 
INTERMEDIATE STATES 
New Jersey 
1*15 
16,187 
172 
15,587 
. 328 
15,759 
Delaware 
1*42 
503 
122 
450 
Maryland 
1.33 
2,985 
733 
2,047 
2,780 
12,807 
Virginia 4/ 
U26 
13,452 
2,805 
10,002 
Kentucky 
1*39 
5,554 
3,603 
•1,336 
■4,939 
Missouri 
1*27 
4.260 1 ' ■ 
2,677 
1,380 
1,177 
•4,057 
Kansas 
1;21 
1,975 
678 
1,855 
Arizona 
1.46 
2,681 
12 
2,533 
2,545 
TOTAL 8 ~ 
~ ~1~2"3 
47/59? 
10/802 
34,390 " 
45,192 
-37 LATE -AND INTER- 
MEDIATE STATES 
I, 20 
530,993 
50,651 
427,832 
478,483 
EARLY STATES 
North Carolina 4/ 
South Carolina 
Georgia 
Florida 
Tennessee 
Alabama 
Mississippi 
Arkansas 
Louisiana 
Oklahoma 
_Texa£ 
TOTAL 11 
1;20 
1;55 
1.63 
lo97 
1.38 
1.30 
1.44 
1.33 
1.37 
1.49 
1.39 
"1 = 45 
15,139 
5,543 
3,112 
12,311 
4,698 
6,040 
3,110 
4,380 
3,124 
2,235 
8,177 
"67,869 
3,264 
907 
1,568 
213 
2,589 
1,346 
1,691 
.2,607 
754 
1,570 
1,596_ 
"1B7105 
11,117 
4,314 
1,345 
11,842 
1,771 
4,454 
1,230 
1,487 
2,197 
508 
_6,179 
46,444 
14,381 
5,221 
2,913 
12,055 
4,360 
5,800 
2,921 
4,094 
2,951 
2,078 
LI 75 
"64,549 
TOTAL U.S. . U22 _ _. 598,862 SSSS^SJ3£~SSSS£?£Z7-^SSSJ5&jP3?- 
4/Production and sales estimates include 125,000 bushels in Va. , and 1,379,000 bushels in N.C., 
unharvested but purchased by the Government under price siipport program. 
The beginning of the crop marketing season varies between States from December 1 preceding the 
year shown for Florida and Texas to August 1 of the year shown for certain northern States. 
The marketing season comprises 12 months in all States except Calif,, which has a 14-month 
season beginning April 1 of" the year shown, 
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