Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-06-28
Volume 9
Use First Potato Crop
as Seed for Second.

fpI u Cn,mer Secretary Polk County Seed Committed
Irish Dotatoes are six dollars bushe and seed OF last year
CROP hard to find at This is high to pay even tor SEED
but with prices assured cannot afford to do w'nou' "
If we do raise potatoes we may expect 10 pay ~
cents pound eat any winter and sPrng ms yea
crp new and hardly mature selling from the heIds al ooo
Lb be prce will surely 90 higher this price doz
ems of other higher priced foods cheaper ana worm %
food value before another wheat crop W" WI"
hunting for substitutes biscuit because there VIII NOT DC
~ bead 70 90 around; corn bread and potatoes make the best
bread next to whole The graham or ban IN the whoe
wheat flour bread dgestbe ana taxes the place
meat which bound go higher than thirty cents pound
Potatoes are now money sight and those VINO
with to make profit ought to plant late P0o
carefully selecting suitable rich land neither wet nor too dry
and ant all they can get by using the first crop as ee
for he second one The crop is much safer than the h
only proper followed and the potatoes produced are
much easily kept though first crop ones can be Kept " "
Polk counvs three thousand families by planting two bushel
average yet produce hundred thousand Oe o W
oes this year Will you plant your bushels? 1t you VIII"
follow these directions and you will be pleased with the results:
AS soon as the tops of the first die down. dig the mature
potatoes for seed them and place IN oy' "nu
Mace in the shade to dry for about week linen soak
them in water four hours before planting RANT eep
60 that rv weather will kill them, and pow them only once or
twice but keep weeds later they grow" aVe the
N good fix before plant the potatoes uy the best month
TO plant according Morgan Of the University OF
An old method of raising potatoes regardless OF dfo
way followed than by lew ana even N'
M every wear by few persons the potato pen
1t has recently discovered BY the newspapers and gwen
publicity See full particulars in the lobby of the Benton Bank
Anvone with rich dirt we'll rotted manure or straw ana 1oy
rails or narrow pnks make layer ot SIX
dirt ten plant potato every foot each cover with Two nsRes
manure ar straw another layer of stx inenes .,
dirt on top this Plant potatoes same as before cover
manure or straw before, and the layers as long S e
st m to erh feet high Slope the layer OF dirt to the oue
50 that it will catch all that falls and when too dry carry
and nnkle the top and By inserting tour loot oock OF
stick Of wood so that be pulled out at one sde OF 'e p
Won can nut your arm and the dampness OF the SOIL ~
~ Of h pen Keep the pen moist enough to produce growing
conditions The potato will cover the top anu sue''
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raised each wear in pen eight feet square, the past 'ee S
The nen can be and all used again next year
have not the material for the and only few eea' ny
ed itself nealy half full of potatoes for l. H. Rogers
The safest way try both methods OF raising poa
that f be weather not on the otheI Lie
man with stable can all his family needs IN the aOe S
one nep the man plenty of rich dirt and ola Sa" " "
rotted manure can raise hundreds of bushels tor market
Polk counans can plant enough potatoes IN July 10 m'k
he thousand bushels which will sell next winter Tor hio
dollars or will save from buying an equal amount Vi nun
about twelve dollars hundred if we can hnd IL at all