The Onaway potato, an early variety

Abstract

The Onaway variety is resistant to common scab, late blight, and mild mosaic, but susceptible to verticillium wilt and early blight. It is a high-yielding, white-skinned early variety that produces medium to large tubers with fair cooking quality. Chip tests do not rate it as one of the better varieties for chipping. It is adapted to sandy soils well supplied with organic matter. Its tubers will grow very large and rough unless prevented by close seed spacing. The advantages from planting seed produced by a competent seed grower are more apparent with Onaway than with most other potato varieties. Consequently, most seed growers of this variety have the seed stock sold before the crop is planted. © 1961 Springer.