Excerpt from Work of the Scotts Bluff Field Station, 1922 to 1925The potato crops of 1922 and 1923 were financial losses, that of 1924 showed some improvement, while the crop of 1925 was highly profitable. Stimulated by the high prices received for the 1921 crop, the potato acreage was increased to a total of acres in 1922, being higher by more than acres than in the preceding year, when it was well above normal. Seed was very expensive, harvesting costs were high, yields were low, on account of damage from early blight which developed during August, and market prices were so low that the returns from the crop did not even approximate the cost of production. In addition to all this, many potatoes were damaged by frost, which not only cut down the proportion of marketable potatoes but added greatly to the expense of sorting. All in all, it is doubtful if the total returns amounted to as much as the expense of harvesting the crop. As a matter of fact, more than acres were not harvested. In many instances the net returns from carload shipments were less than the cost of the sacks.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.