Our country and its resources; . nited states, potatoes are among the mostcommercially important. They af-ford one of the most nutritious andone of the cheapest foods for thetable of rich and poor alike. Afailure in the potato crop means dis-aster. Three million seven hundredand sixty-one thousand acres aredevoted in the United States exclu-sively to the production of production is .359, bush-els, a large increase in the past tenyears, the 1905 figures being 260,-741,000 bushels. The average farmprice per bushel is cents, or atotal value for the whole crop of$221,104,0
Our country and its resources; . nited states, potatoes are among the mostcommercially important. They af-ford one of the most nutritious andone of the cheapest foods for thetable of rich and poor alike. Afailure in the potato crop means dis-aster. Three million seven hundredand sixty-one thousand acres aredevoted in the United States exclu-sively to the production of production is .359, bush-els, a large increase in the past tenyears, the 1905 figures being 260,-741,000 bushels. The average farmprice per bushel is cents, or atotal value for the whole crop of$221,104,000. Potatoes are amongthe most universally grown crops inthe United States, every State pro-ducing enough to make a variationin the statistics if omitted. Evenlittle Rhode Island has over 5,000acres devoted to the production ofthe popular spud, growing 550,000bushels. Maine and New York arethe two largest producers of pota-toes, both accounting for 22,010,000bushels. The value of the New Yorkcrop is about $3,000,000 greater than. WORLDS PRODUCTION OF MAIZE & BARLEY 46 OUR COUNTRY » its RES( »1 RCES that of the Maine crop, althoughMaine produces its crop from l 12,000acres, whereas New York has 355,-000 acres engaged in potato produc-tion. The production f potatoes abroadmakes a curious comparison withthat of the United Stales. The worldproduction is 5,714,188,000 bushels(1913 figures). Of this enormoustotal Austria-Hungary alone pro-duced 627,728,000, one third merebushels than produced and used bythe United States in 1915. Germany by it he sustains his working tools,the farm animals, and feeds thestuck, which is in itself a crop. Inthe United States 50,872,000 acresproduce hay with an average yieldof tens per acre. This makesthe total production 85,225,000 tons,a weight as impossible to realize asit is to grasp the fact that it is\ alued at $912,320,000. The com-bined navies of the world have nota tonnage equal to the United stateshay crop. A fleet of two thousandbo
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