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THE POTATOE CROPS. 



THE potatoe is one of the most important 

 vegetables raised in the United States. It is a 

 native of South-America, whence it was carri- 

 ed to Spain from the neighbourhood of Quito. 

 To England, however, this root found its way 

 by a different route, being brought from Vir- 

 ginia by the colonists sent out by Sir Walter 

 Raleigh, in 1586. It is now extensively culti- 

 vated in all the northern parts of the United 

 States, and forms one of our principal articles 

 of vegetable food. 



Potatoes are raised with great ease, several 

 hundred bushels being often produced on a 

 single acre. Yet he that would have a large 

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