. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 741. Potato spray and blossoms. Detail shows a diagram plan of Hower (dotted lines siiowing position of sepals), and a vertical section. Atlantic coast ports report an importation of pea- nuts during 1904 amounting in value to $65,161, chiefly from Spain, while the Pacific coast ports report for the same year an importation valued at $87,441, chiefly from Japan and China. This gives a total of $152,602 sent abroad for a product which might easily be produced at home. The interesting fact in connection with the peanut supply for variou
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 741. Potato spray and blossoms. Detail shows a diagram plan of Hower (dotted lines siiowing position of sepals), and a vertical section. Atlantic coast ports report an importation of pea- nuts during 1904 amounting in value to $65,161, chiefly from Spain, while the Pacific coast ports report for the same year an importation valued at $87,441, chiefly from Japan and China. This gives a total of $152,602 sent abroad for a product which might easily be produced at home. The interesting fact in connection with the peanut supply for various sections of the country is that none of the nuts produced either in the Atlantic or Gulf coast states reach the Pacific coast markets, these markets being supplied almost exclusively from Japan and China. Literature. \Vm. N. Roper, The Peanut and Its Culture; B. W. Jones, The Peanut Plant; K. B. Handy, Pea- nuts—Culture and Uses, Farmers' Bulletin No. 25, United States Department of Agriculture; C. L. Newman, Peanuts, Bulletin No. 84, Arkansas Agri- cultural Experiment Station. POTATO. Solanum tuberosum, Linn. Solanacece, (Irish, English, Round, White Potato.) Figs 741-762. By S. Fraser. A farm crop grown for its tubers, which ar* used largely for human food and for stock-food, and for the manufacture of starch and alcohol. The genus Solanum comprises perhaps 1000 spe- cies, in many parts of the world. Some twenty of the described species are more or less tuber-bear- ing, but J. G. Baker (Journal Linnwus Society, XX) considers that only six of these " possess a fair claim to be considered as distinct species in a broad ; These six are Solanum tuberosum, S. Maglia, S. Commersoni, , , S-oxy- carpum. Of these, only S. tuberosum is known agri- cuturally. It is possible, however, that S. Maglia (the Darwin potato) and 5. Commersoni (Pig. 103) possess value for the cultivator, either directly or hybridized with the common potato. S. Commer
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