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Excerpt from A Study of the Factors Influencing the Improvement of the Potato
The annual consumption of potatoes per capita in the United States for a period of thirty years is given by the Twelfth Census as three and one-half bushels, and when the amount available for human consumption is smaller than this, - as has been the case in the last few years, - the price precludes their use for other purposes.
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