Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — The Potato Centuries Ago. [ARTICLE]

The Potato Centuries Ago.

It has been proved beyond a doubt that at the time of the discovery of America the cultivation.of the potato was practiced with every appearance of ancient usage in the temperate regions from Chili to New Grenade, ati altitudes varying with the latitude. The name of the discoverer of the potato is unknown, but Du Candolle sums up the history of its discovery as follows: *The pot ato is wild in Chili in a form which is still seen in our cultivated plants; it is doubtful whether its natural home extends to Peru and New Grenada; its cultivation was diffused before the discovery of America, and it was introduced in the latter half of the sixteenth century into that part of the United States now known as Virginia and North Carolina, and the potato was imported into Europe first by the Spaniards and afterward by the English at the time of Raleighls voyages to Virginia." I ; ' Dk. Miquel, the Prussian Minister of Finance, evidently knows on what side his bread is buttered. Speaking of his boss, the Emperor William, at a publie dinner the other day the doctor said: “He is a man of the modern type. He is complete master of the great questions df the present day and is in sympathy with everything tending to ’progress:* ; That dose of taffy ought to secure for the doc the Order of the Holy Wienerwurst.