. Boone County Recorder . t week only ™ PAINTS-VARNISHES-WIRE FENCE. Gaooidys Hardware Store. 1 25 Pike Street or 24 West Seventh , - - - - KENTUCKY, Subscribe for the Recorder^ Mfai^ejHMflMHlHMMasa POTATO CULTURE IN KENTUCKY NOTSUFFICIENT TO SUPPLY DEMAND Blue Grass State Produces Annually Only 5,500,000 Bushels, I About Two-thirds cf Annual Consumption-Kentucky Has Numerous Advantages for Potato Crop W. B. Hendrirk, Department of Agronomy, Kentucky Agriculturaluerlment Station.) _.„>... r-mm Ex- The so-called Irish potato (Solarium its decay furnishes a liberal supply of t
. Boone County Recorder . t week only ™ PAINTS-VARNISHES-WIRE FENCE. Gaooidys Hardware Store. 1 25 Pike Street or 24 West Seventh , - - - - KENTUCKY, Subscribe for the Recorder^ Mfai^ejHMflMHlHMMasa POTATO CULTURE IN KENTUCKY NOTSUFFICIENT TO SUPPLY DEMAND Blue Grass State Produces Annually Only 5,500,000 Bushels, I About Two-thirds cf Annual Consumption-Kentucky Has Numerous Advantages for Potato Crop W. B. Hendrirk, Department of Agronomy, Kentucky Agriculturaluerlment Station.) _.„>... r-mm Ex- The so-called Irish potato (Solarium its decay furnishes a liberal supply of tuberosum) is a native of America, andnext to rice is the most extensivelygrown and most valuable crop in theworld. The total annual yield is about6,000,000,000 bushels. Of this the Uni-ted States produced during the five-year period, 1908-1912, an average of343,587,600 bushels annually. The an-nual consumption of the United States,as a food product, is about 300,, or three and one-half bushelsper Irish Cobbler, an excellent earlyvariety. Kentucky, with a population of 2,-289,905 in 1910, is producing annuallya little less than 5,500,000 bushels ofpotatoes, while the annual consump-tion of the state is about 7,500,000bushels, making it necessary that 2,-000,000 bushels of potatoes be shippedInto our state each year. The potato has become so adaptedto varying conditions of soil and cli-mate that it is now grown in almostall parts of the civilized world. Thesoils and climate of Kentucky are suffi-ciently favorable to the growing of thepotato that it should not only be grownto supply home consumption, but itshould be profitably produced as a pay-ing marketable crop as well. nitrogen to the soil. Potato landshould be plowed to a good depth soas to provide a deep, loose bed for theformation of the tubers. Since the po-tato is an intensive crop, one canafford to use commercial fertilizers inits production. Fertilizers low in nitro-gen, medium in phosphoric a
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