CHAPTER X 



POTATOES 



White Potatoes 



Distribution of production. 



Yields. 



Climate and soils. 



Fertilizing land. 



Planting. 



Quantity and size of seed potatoes. 



Depth of planting. 

 Cultivating the potato fields. 

 Harvesting and storing. 

 Insect pests. 



Colorado potato-beetle. 



Flea-beetle. 

 Diseases. 



Early blight. 



Late blight. 



Potato scab. 



Sweet Potatoes 

 Distribution and use. 

 Soils. 



Fertilizing the land. 

 Cultural methods. 

 Harvesting and storing. 

 Pests of the sweet potato. 



Root-borer. 



Black-rot. 



POTATOES are of two main kinds or species, the white, Irish, 

 or round potatoes grown in the Northern States and Canada 

 and in the Southern States as a cool-season or early crop, 

 and the sweet potato, grown extensively in the South. Both 



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