. The potato . Potatoes. Acreage and Valve 7 stable and railroad facilities develop, there is more and more of a tendency for farm crops to be intensively grown in certain areas where soil, climate and other factors are best suited to them. This is especially true of a crop like corn or wheat which is neither perishable nor very bulky and can be easily shipped. This is becoming â S,7/% â 4-. 66- % â t e,/s% z/r'/a. Fig. 3. Percentage of the potato crop of the United States which is 'produced in each of the 16 states of largest production, 1902-1911. increasingly
. The potato . Potatoes. Acreage and Valve 7 stable and railroad facilities develop, there is more and more of a tendency for farm crops to be intensively grown in certain areas where soil, climate and other factors are best suited to them. This is especially true of a crop like corn or wheat which is neither perishable nor very bulky and can be easily shipped. This is becoming â S,7/% â 4-. 66- % â t e,/s% z/r'/a. Fig. 3. Percentage of the potato crop of the United States which is 'produced in each of the 16 states of largest production, 1902-1911. increasingly true of potatoes because of their bulkiness and partial perishableness. Most of the potatoes raised in the Upited States are still grown as a cash crop in relatively small parcels on many farms. There is a tendency, however, toward the development of potato-growing centers in widely sepa- rated sections of the United States. By a careful inspec- tion of the map on page 6 one can see that these areas are located in Aroostook County, Maine, the Norfolk and Eastern Shore trucking regions of Virginia and Maryland, the Red River Valley of Minnesota and North Dakota, the Kaw Valley of Kansas, the Greely and Carbondale districts of Colorado, and the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gilbert, Arthur Witter, 1882-1936; Barrus, Mortier Franklin, 1879-1962; Dean, Daniel. New York : Macmillan
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