Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1919 — PLANT EARLY POTATOES NOW [ARTICLE]

PLANT EARLY POTATOES NOW

Layfayette, Ind., April 5.—-Plant early potatoes as soon as the soil be gotten into good condition. The earlier planted crop will mature more quickly and will show correspondingly high yields, F. C. Gaylord of the Purdue university extension staff, declares. A sandy soil with a south slope is preferable as a place for early tubers. Plow deeply and thoroughly work the soil, the same as for any garden crop, he advises. Triumph is perhaps the earliest potato in Indiana, but is has a tendency to blight ahd will not produce as well as Early Ohio, an elongated oval pink tubor, or the Irish Cobbler, a square shaped potato with white skin, the garden specialist says: In preparing seed, cut pieces about the size of an egg with two good eyes to each piece. Plant in rows 2% feet apart and 10 to 12 inches in the row.