. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 8 BULLETIN (>().">, V. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Of 68 crops of lettuce produced on 25 farms, per cent of the crops were successful. The average yield harvested during the season of 1914—15 was 221 hampers per acre. (See fig. 5.) Onions were produced on 18 farms, and more than half ( per cent) of the crops were successful. The average yield of onions is approximately 260 bushels per acre. This crop is best adapted to the lighter textured soils of the western part of the region. Irish potatoes we
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 8 BULLETIN (>().">, V. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Of 68 crops of lettuce produced on 25 farms, per cent of the crops were successful. The average yield harvested during the season of 1914—15 was 221 hampers per acre. (See fig. 5.) Onions were produced on 18 farms, and more than half ( per cent) of the crops were successful. The average yield of onions is approximately 260 bushels per acre. This crop is best adapted to the lighter textured soils of the western part of the region. Irish potatoes were raised on 24 farms, records being secured on 69 crops. Forty-three of these crops were profitable. Potatoes yield on the average less than 100 bushels per Fig. 5.—Lettuce is an important truck crop. This field has been cut over once. Two more cuttings will be made. Snap beans and tomatoes were produced on 22 farms, 65 crops of beans and 58 crops of tomatoes being recorded. Fifty-one per cent of the bean crops brought profits, and 43 per cent of the tomato crops succeeded. Only 10 farms produced cantaloupes, 20 crops being raised. Only 4 of these crops were profitable. While the profits from the successful truck crops average greater than the losses from the failures, it appears that in general any one truck crop is successful only about half the time. Potatoes and onions appear to be somewhat more likely to succeed than others, while cantaloupes are seldom successful. Other truck crops, such as spinach, table beets, kohlrabi, garlic, peppers, eggplant, okra, and turnips, are produced quite extensively and are successful to about the same extent as those crops above mentioned. It not infrequently happens that some one crop comes on the market at a time when the product is scarce, and under such conditions very large profits may be made. For some crops it is. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced f
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