CHAPTER XII. 



THE POTATO 

 AS A BUY 

 LAND CROP 



POTATO CULTURE. 



Sir Walter Raleigh took the potato to England. It 

 became the poor man's bread and meat in Ireland, and 

 came back to America an Irish Potato. 



Potatoes can be produced with as little moist- 

 ure as any of the general farm crops. Their 



Plate XXXIII. 



John Gordon and His Dry Farm 

 Potatoes. 



requirements are such that a little water stored 

 in the soil will make sufficient growth of vine, 

 and with proper cultivation its feeder roots will 

 gather practically all the moisture in the culti- 



