252 THE POTATO 



in cooking, moist, and very sweet. This variety 

 is most extensively grown for market purposes 

 where a sweet, moist-fleshed potato is demanded. 

 The Southern Queen yields well, is an excellent 

 keeper, and is adapted for both marketing and 

 stock feeding and for home use in the South Atlan- 

 tic and Gulf Coast States, but it does not mature 

 when grown in the extreme North. 



"Red Bermuda. The Red Bermuda vines are 

 large and vigorous. The potatoes are usually 

 large and overgrown with heavy ridges and veins. 

 The color of the potatoes is rose red; flesh, creamy; 

 quality fair but not so sweet as Southern Queen. 

 This variety is a heavy cropper and suitable for 

 feeding to stock. It is one of the few so-called 

 yams which thrive in the northern portion of the 

 sweet potato area. 



" Black Spanish, or * Nigger Choker. ' The 

 Black Spanish vines are very long, vigorous, and 

 dark purple in color. The potatoes are long, 

 cylindrical, crooked, or bent; dark purple in color, 

 with snowy white flesh and poor quality. This 

 variety is grown mostly for stock feeding. 



" Shanghai. The vines of the Shanghai variety 

 are large and vigorous; the potatoes long, cylindri- 

 cal; the outside color almost white. The flesh is 

 creamy white, becoming darker in cooking. When 

 baked the flesh is somewhat dry and mealy and the 

 flavor rather poor. This variety yields fairly well 

 and is adapted for use as stock food in the Gulf 

 Coast States. 



"The cost of growing an acre of sweet potatoes 

 will vary with the cropping plan and the extent to 

 which the crop is grown. On an average the cost 

 of growing an acre of sweet potatoes in the regular 

 commercial district is about as follows: Rental of 



