Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1918 — How to Raise Potatoes. [ARTICLE]

How to Raise Potatoes.

Put Irish potatoes in drills about four or five inches deep. Put one eye every eight inches, and replant where they fail to come up. In hoeing, do not cut the roots, and do not draw earth too high on the plant after it has a godd start, as this causes a second crop of potatoes to start growing, which will set back the bigger ones, states an authority. . Use a solution of paris green for potato beetles. In dry seasons prying up the middles with forte, without turning the earth any whatever, and then watering with a hose has an almost miraculous effect