Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1890 — Potatoes on Sandy Soll. [ARTICLE]

Potatoes on Sandy Soll.

Thirty or forty years ago potatoes grown on sandy soil were reckoned the best and it was thought that heavier lands were unsuited to them. But potatoes on sand soon run out, probably from deficiency of potash, and the bulk of the crop for market is now grown on heavier land and well manured. The Early Rose and in fact most very early potatoes need to have the land as rich as it can be made. Thus grown we think they are better in quality as well as in yield. The old Mercer potatoe wag.a sort that did best ou sand, and if much manure was used it always rotted badly. The Peaehblow potatoe was the first one to be cultivated on ail kinds of soils, and this, a 3 much as its good quality, made it popular both with growers and consumers.