Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1917 — Unrelated Potatoes. [ARTICLE]

Unrelated Potatoes.

Sweet potatoes have rut much in common botanically with their more familiar namesakes. They have long been cultivated as food in tropical and subtropical countries, and .were actually introduced into England at an earlier date than the common potato. The? two tubers* were often confounded by writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but the sweet potato won more popularity than its rival. Steepted in wine or made into a sweetmeat, it was regarded as an excellent invigorator. Sweetish and agreeable to the taste, its flesh-form-ing qualities are considered equal at least to those of the common potato.