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Commission house, 247 



-man, 247 

 Composition of Irish potato, 22 



of sweet potato, 21 

 Compressed air sprayers, 174 

 Containers, 212 

 Convolvulus Batatas, 5 

 Cook, quoted, 6 

 Cookies, sweet potato drop, 51 

 Cooking of sweet potatoes, 46 

 Cooperative shipping, 251 

 Ooptocyola hicolor, 141 



signifera, 142 

 Cotton-seed meal, 100, 101 

 Crates for shipping, 218 



packing of, 236 

 Creola, 123 

 Cultivation, 93 



Curing-houses, commercial, 202 

 Custard, baked sweet potato, 50 

 Cylas formicarius, 145 



DeCandolle, cited, 2, 5 



Dehydrated sweet potatoes, 34 



Delaware, 124 



Description, 3 



Desiccated sweet potatoes, 34 



Devil's food, sweet potato, 50 



Diaporthe batatatis, 166 



Dioscorea, 6 



Diplodia tuhericola, 166 



Disease, selection of seed for, 57 



treatment of seed-bed for, 79 

 Diseases, 155 



influence of rotation on, 115 

 Distribution, 10 

 Domestic animals, food for, 25 



cooking, 46 

 Dooley Yam, 123 

 Drawing the plants, 80 

 Draws, propagation by, 54, 80 

 Dried blood, 100 



sweet potatoes, 35 

 Drop cookies, sweet potato, 51 

 Dry-rot, 166 

 Dusters, 175 



East Texas Yam, 125 

 Excretions from roots, 114 



Facing, 228 



Feeding stuffs, analysis of, 27 



Fertilizers, 96 



Fish scrap, 100 



Fitz, Jas., cited, 84 



Flea-beetle, 137 



Florida Yam, 124 



Flour, sweet potato, 38, 51 



Flowers, description of, 4 



F. o. b. sales, 253 



Food for domestic animals, 25 



for man, 21 



value, 21 

 Foot-rot, 158 

 Foreign markets, 243 

 Fried sweet potatoes, 47 

 FuUerton Yellow Yam, 124 

 Fungicides, 170 

 Fusarium batatatis, 156 



hyperoaeysporum, 156 



General Grant, 124 

 Georgia Buck, 125 



Yam, 125 

 Gold-bugs, 139 

 Gold dust, 172 

 Golden tortoise beetle, 141 

 Gold Skin, 124 

 Grading, 223 

 Green-manures, 109 



Hampers for shipping, 217 



packing of, 235 

 Harden ing-off, 79 

 Hardwood ashes, 103, 111 

 Harvesting, 177 

 Hayman, 125 

 Henry, cited, 27 



and Morrison, cited, 114 

 High, M. M., cited, 151 

 Home markets, 241 



-mixing fertilizers, 105 

 Hotbed, flue-heated, 69 



manure-heated, 67 



pipe-heated, 71 

 House, quoted, 5 

 Humboldt, cited, 5 

 Humus, 108 



