. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. POTATO POTATO 525 taking five rows should cover one to one and a quarter acres per hour of work, or about ten acres per day, once over. A two-horse cultivator set to take two rows will cover eight to ten acres per day, going once in a row. A man without machi- nery will dig one-eighth to one-half an acre per day, depending on the crop and the soil, at a cost of two to six and sometimes eight cents per bushel; with a good mechanical digger and three or four
. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. POTATO POTATO 525 taking five rows should cover one to one and a quarter acres per hour of work, or about ten acres per day, once over. A two-horse cultivator set to take two rows will cover eight to ten acres per day, going once in a row. A man without machi- nery will dig one-eighth to one-half an acre per day, depending on the crop and the soil, at a cost of two to six and sometimes eight cents per bushel; with a good mechanical digger and three or four horses and eight to sixteen hands to pick up, three to six acres may be dug per day at a cost not exceeding two cents per bushel. A specifie example. While the average yield of potatoes in the United States is less than ninety bushels per acre, it is wholly practicable, on good potato soil, to produce three to five times that yield. It is doubt- ful whether it pays to raise less than two hundred bushels to the acre. Whether it pays to raise more than three hundred bushels depends on the price of labor and the ability to secure it advantageously. By superior tillage, the yield may very easily be placed beyond three hundred bushels, if the land is right; but if this requires the keeping of an extra team throughout the year in order to have it when The potatoes are planted on a rolled surface in order to secure uniform depth and a good stand. The rows are thirty-six inches apart, seed placed three inches deep, and about eleven inches in the. Fig. 754. A potato planter in cross-section. the potatoes need tilling, it is a question whether the crop would return a profit. The question of farm organization at once arises, for there should be other productive work for the extra teams and men at other times of the year. The farm methods employed in producing more than four hundred bushels of potatoes to the acre on a particular farm (T. E. Martin, West Rush, New York) will illustrate the
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