WAUPACA COUNTY REPUBLICAN

September 7, 1874

 

Old Potatoes

 

            An eastern exchange gives this advice:  Potatoes, to be good, should never be exposed to the light, but be kept in as dark a place as possible. After they begin to sprout in the spring, they should be taken up from the bins or heaps and kept in boxes or barrels.  If you have a few barrels saved out for family use, instead of picking them over and spreading them every few weeks, put them into enough barrels so that you can easily turn them from one to another.  Have one extra barrel, and once every week turn them all out from one barrel to another.  This keeps them moving so often that the sprouts cannot grow enough to do much harm.  The sprouts which come out from the potato use up the nourishment it contains, and leave it soft, watery, and insipid.  By treating them as proposed above, they may be kept in condition for the table several weeks longer than by sprouting them, and at the same time save a deal of work.