Why Western Potatoes Are Large

Tha exti-emely large size to which potatoes sometimes grow in the west ia due to several causes, among which the following are given by Rural New Yorker: Potatoes thrive best in cool clirnates andiuloose, loamy, rioh, moist goils. Irrigation, properly practicad, furnishes the desired mechanical couditions and in rich soils brings in to proper solution and consequent availability quantities of plant food which the potato, being a grass feeder, fastens on to and expands itself aocordingly. There is no magie about it, simply rich soils, intelligently oultivated and jndiciously watored.