. Yearbook of agriculture . Corn Belt,ihis IS due partly to the fact that the quality and yield of potatoes are Letter in regionsof cool climate, and partly to the fact that corn, which requires labor at the same time,IS very productive and j^ives a greater return. Many of the large centers of iwtato pro-duction are in regions of .sandy or loamy soils—Aroostook Countv (Me.), Long Island,^ew .Jersey, eastern Virginia, western Michigan, central Wisconsin, and Anoka County(Minn.). Many of the minor centers of production are located near large cities, sincepotatoes are a bulky crop, expensive to t
. Yearbook of agriculture . Corn Belt,ihis IS due partly to the fact that the quality and yield of potatoes are Letter in regionsof cool climate, and partly to the fact that corn, which requires labor at the same time,IS very productive and j^ives a greater return. Many of the large centers of iwtato pro-duction are in regions of .sandy or loamy soils—Aroostook Countv (Me.), Long Island,^ew .Jersey, eastern Virginia, western Michigan, central Wisconsin, and Anoka County(Minn.). Many of the minor centers of production are located near large cities, sincepotatoes are a bulky crop, expensive to transport, and can be sold at a profit by localgardeners and farmers in competition with the crop from the large production centers. A Graphic Smnmary of American Agriculture. 457 o 1 1 172,029154,963148,689120,416139,100142,261122,170115,690100,46369,86553,18147,01152,21041,76745,340118,945 s 1 i 52,40649,96849,,75237,31135,58933,77130,62420,43115,80313,,454 1 X „ s 0£ 2 idii^^iiiuuH ^. S^ = Si/i^zo Fig 50—The two more important commercial sugar crops are cane and beet. Theacreage of sorghum cane is greater than that of sugar cane, but the sirup is mostly madefrom the sorghum on the farm and does not enter into commerce. Sugar beets do not,in general, show a sufficiently high sugar content to be manufactured profitably wherethe summer temperature is over 72°, and the beets must also then compete with cornfor the farmers labor. Sugar cane is not grown commercially for sugar outside ot thealmost frost-free lower Mississippi Delta of Louisiana. The broad belt between thesugar-beet and sugar-cane areas is occupied by a thin and scattered acreage of sorghumcane. 458 Yearbook of the Department of Agncidture,^ 1921.
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