CHAPTER XII. 



THE POTATO 

 AS A SB'S' 

 KAITD CROP 



Potato Cuxtuee. 



Sir 'Walter Baleigb 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 xxxiir. 



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 mth proper cultivation its feeder roots "vvill 

 gather practically all the moisture in the culti- 



