Varieties 



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LiTTiJi Stem Jersey. — The Little and Big Stem 

 Jerseys are extensively grown for the northern markets 

 by all farmers in the 

 eastern shore sweet po- 

 tato district, where the 

 Eastern Shore of Vir- 

 ginia ProduceExchange 

 has done much to stand- 

 ardize the production. 

 Bulletin 19 of the Vir- 

 ginia Truck Experi- 

 ment Station gives the 

 following' description of 

 the variety : " Vines 

 long, slender, leaves 

 small ; potatoes uni- 

 fomily medium sized, 

 regular, rounded to spindle shaped; bright yellow skin, 



creamy flesh, a moderate 

 yielder; table quality good, 

 dry. This variety is espe- 

 cially adapted for shipping 

 in the hamper pack to north- 

 em markets." The vine 

 growth is similar to that of 

 the Big Stem Jersey except 

 that it is more slender. The 

 potatoes are smaller, more 

 uniform, smoother and less 

 veiny than the Big Stem Jer- 

 sey, according to Miller.^ 



1 Fred E. Miller, Farmers' Bull. 999, p. 28. 



FiGTTRB 12. — A hill of healthy- 

 Little Stem Jerseys having more 

 than five potatoes of marketable 

 size. Fifty hills of such po- 

 tatoes will give a barrel of mar- 

 ketable potatoes and some culls. 

 Such healthy high-yielding hills 

 of uniform potatoes are especi- 

 ally good for seed. 



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FiGtTRE 13. — A hill of 

 healthy Little Stem Jerseys 

 vrith potatoes of good shape, 

 but not large enough to mar- 

 ket as primes. This photo- 

 graph is the same magnifl- 

 cation as Fig. 12. 



