Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition Online

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		Irish potatoes				Sweet potatoes
		Acreage harvested		Production	Price	Acreage harvested		Production	Price
Row	Year	Thousand acres		Thousand hundredweight	Dollars per hundredweight	Thousand acres		Thousand bushels	Dollars per bushel
1	1849	----		39,479	----	----		21,047	----
2	1859	----		66,660	----	----		23,152	----
3	1869	----		86,002	----	----		11,940	----
4	1879	----	⁴	101,675	----	----	⁴	18,358	----
5	1889	2,601		130,528	----	525		24,173	----

6	1899	2,939		163,997	0.60	537		23,390	0.85
7	1909	3,669		233,527	0.71	642		32,590	1.09
8	1919	3,253		174,293	3.67	803		42,951	2.91
9	1924	2,911		211,477	1.06	467		20,594	2.62
10	1929	3,945		193,480	2.14	650		35,856	1.89

11	1934	3,582		242,052	0.80	967		42,891	1.47
12	1939	2,645		190,999	1.14	697		35,195	1.35
13	1944	2,537		213,928	2.43	673		37,973	3.40
14	1949	1,515		219,917	2.13	393		23,654	3.85
15	1954	1,211		204,113	2.16	261		15,068	4.53

16	1959	1,200		224,140	2.14	218		16,162	3.33
17	1964	1,174		221,874	3.43	112		10,123	5.11
18	1969	1,261		273,644	2.00	99		19,643	2.49
19	1974	1,345		316,164	----	86		17,269	----
20	1978	1,386		351,217	----	88		18,856	----

21	1982	1,268		334,621	----	95		20,440	----
22	1987	1,310		367,199	----	73		15,953	----
23	1992	1,351		410,509	----	81		19,579	----
24	1997	1,355		459,886	----	77		20,763	----