POTATOES: PRODUCTION, FARM DISPOSITION, AND VALUE, Iff STATES, 1952 CROP l/ 
S"eason~average~ 
price per bu. 
received by 
farmers 
Dollars 
\-M 
2.60 
2.60 
2.65 
2.25 
2.14 
2.08 
2.40 
2.90 
Value ~ 
~ Value : Value of pota-~ 
of : toes for farm 
production _ t household use 
TEousano" doll" 
Group 
and 
State 
Value 
of 
sales 
r s 
L ATE STATES : 
Jaine ~. 
Tew Hampshire 
Vermont 
Massachusetts 
Rhode Island 
Connecticut 
New York, L.I. 
New York, Up-State 
Pennsylvania 
_West Virginia_ 
" ^ Eastern ~ 
""OHio" 
Indiana 
Illinois 
Michigan 
Wisconsin 
Minnesota 
Iowa 
North Dakota 
South Dakota_ 
_ 9 Central _ _~_ 
Nebraska 
Montana 
Idaho 
Wyoming 
Colorado 
New Mexico 
Utah 
Nevada 
Viashington 
Oregon 
_Calif ornia - 
_ II W_es^ern_ ~ 
29"~Lat'e States 
I^EPMipTA TESTATES" t 
New Jersey 
Delaware 
Maryland 
Virginia 
Kentucky 
Missouri 
Kansas 
7 INTERMEDIATE STATES" 
3"6~LA"TE" SND INTER"-" 
MEDIATE STATES 
EAR LY STlTES t 
North Carolina 
South Carolina 
Georgia 
Florida 
Tennessee 
Alabama 
Mississippi 
Arkansas 
Louisiana 
Oklahoma 
Texas 
Arizona 
California - Early 
I3~EA"RLY~ STATES" ~ ~ 
~l778" 
- 2T8H 
2.73 
2.96 
2.05 
2.28 
1.80 
2.70 
1.75 
2,05 
2.738" 
Late 
"1.45 
2.25 
1.55 
1.85 
1.70 
2.17 
1.75 
1.85 
1.85 
1.90 
2.45 
"1779 
"1704" 
2,012 
4,425 
3,053 
4,990 
36,862 
28,080 
34,560 
3,451 
~19"0,623~ 
" T37874 - 
6,880 
1,539 
21,238 
27,451 
22,032 
3,375 
24,570 
2,593 
" 123,302 " 
" Tifol3~ 
5,787 
66,309 
3,108 
34,034 
174 
5,534 
975 
19,721 
21,632 
39,102 
"27377359" 
"521^514 
356 
42 
220 
118 
1,918 
2,678 
2,488 
" "5,277 
" 2,73lo- 
1,070 
995 
2,624 
3,128 
2,246 
1,528 
1,046 
594 
157247" 
_ ~ 754" 
382 
341 
56 
204 
24 
168 
37 
326 
285 
145 
" 2,722 
""27,243 
6 l'BS 
1,238 
3,853 
2,865 
4,502 
35,672 
20,921 
27,859 
441 
~15'373^3~ ~ 
' " T07670"" ~ 
.j,670" 
5,364 
408 
14,610 
21,341 
16,922 
1*463 
19,866 
1,607 
92,251 ~_ 
8,848 
4,561 
59,525 
2,298 
28,548 
135 
4,772 
792 
17,878 
18,369 
36,368 
182^094 
"427J728" 
2.30 
2.70 
2.66 
2.98 
2.67 
2.38 
2.26 
■276T 
11,123 
2,327 
2,077 
13,982 
4,160 
2,570 
497 
26J726" 
122 
140 
468 
1,773 
2,796 
1,666 
294 
7,261 
10 p 522 
2,082 
1,466 
11,574 
889 
733 
176 
277432" 
1.87 _ _558 £ 250_ 
34,507 
_465 i 180_ 
2.49 
2.98 
2.94 
2.44 
2.85 
2.25 
3.20 
3.04 
2.70 
2.95 
2.55 
2.50 
2,35 
"2742 
13,585 
5,507 
1,341 
18,607 
3,876 
9,266 
1,434 
2,371 
2,060 
1,180 
5,202 
3,792 
60,630 
-128jesr 
3,959 
650 
688 
129 
2,736 
922 
1,146 
1,648 
807 
531 
898 
22 
24 
"14",l673 
8,909 
4 t 655 
591 
18 r 361 
832 
8,122 
218 
590 
1,164 
593 
4,179 
3,628 
60,303 
"^LT27135" 
1.96 
687,101 
48,667 
577 „ 345 
U. S. 
T/^relxminary. — "~ * ~~ ~ 
2/Consists of potatoes sold for all purposes including food, seed, processing and livestock 
fe"ed. 
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 <xcept California which has a 14-month 
season beginning April 1 of the year shown. 
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