. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. S^fr'^mTU BULLETIN No. 1063 Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief. Washington, D. C. May 29, 1922 SWEET-POTATO STORAGE By H. C. Thompson, formerly Horticulturist, and James H. Beattie, Horticul- turist, Office of Horticultural and Pomological Investigations. CONTENTS. Page. Importance of the sweet-potato crop Preliminary studies Objects of the experiments Methods of procedure Comparison of the keeping qualities of sweet potatoes under careful and under commercial handling-- Compa
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. S^fr'^mTU BULLETIN No. 1063 Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief. Washington, D. C. May 29, 1922 SWEET-POTATO STORAGE By H. C. Thompson, formerly Horticulturist, and James H. Beattie, Horticul- turist, Office of Horticultural and Pomological Investigations. CONTENTS. Page. Importance of the sweet-potato crop Preliminary studies Objects of the experiments Methods of procedure Comparison of the keeping qualities of sweet potatoes under careful and under commercial handling-- Comparison of house storage and bank storage of sweet potatoesâ Comparison of the keeping qualities of injured and uninjured sweet potatoes Comparison of the practices of sort- ing and not -sorting stored sweet potatoes Comparison of the keeping qualities of various varieties of sweet pota- toes Comparison of the keeping qualities of sweet potatoes when stored at different temperatures .. Keeping qualities of sweet potatoes stored in bins and in crates Relation of the temperature in the bins to the temperature of the surrounding air Comparison of the keeping qualities of four important commercial varieties of sweet potatoes stored under like conditions Summary Page. 10 I:; 13 15 17 18 IMPORTANCE OF THE SWEET-POTATO CROP. The sweet potato is second in importance of the vegetable crops, being exceeded in value only by the Irish potato. In 1920 approxi- mately 1,085,000 acres of land in the United States were devoted to the production of sweet potatoes. The estimated production was ,368,000 bushels, with a farm value of $126,629)000. The greater portion of the crop is produced in a few of the Southern States, the important producing States being Alabama. Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, South Carolina, and Louisiana. i Daring the progrei <«r tbls worli â â nci ['omologica] Investigation 87029^- -22 1. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned pag
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