WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

March 24, 1882

 

EXTENSIVE POTATO PATCH

 

            A vast tract of land in central Wisconsin comprising most of the counties of Waupaca, Waushara, Portage and Wood, and parts of several other counties, has been considered by outsiders to be almost a desert, because sandy, and to be cursed with lazy occupants for being barren.  Within three or four years great changes have occurred in this region, particularly as regards the worth of the land.  Many old settlers have been forced out, and in their place there has been installed a class of men who are doing much to show the world the mistake that has been made.  When well cultivated it beats the world for corn, clover is now grown in abundance, and these two, with hogs, will make any country rich.  But the most recent discovery of the outsiders is the fact that this district is the potato-lovers paradise. No where else in the known world can be produced potatoes the excellence of which is so universally praised.  To such an extent is this fact now known, that the whole district bids fair to become one vast potato patch; and potato buyers throng all the towns in this section, sending potatoes to all parts of the United States.