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Index 



Pride of Kansas, 131 

 Production in United States, 11 



of seed potatoes, 60 

 Propagation, 54 

 tumpkin Yam, 131 

 Purple Yam, 130 



Quality of product, 222 

 Quantity to produce, 225 



Raisins and marshmallows, 



sweet potatoes with, 50 

 Recipes for cooking, 47 

 Red Bermuda, 131 



Brazil, 132 



Carolina, 132 



Jersey, 132 



Nansemond, 132 



Nose, 132 

 Refrigerator cars, 230 

 Requirements for market, 207 

 Rhizopus nigricans, 165 

 Riced sweet potatoes, 51 

 Riley, C. V., cited, 143 

 Ring-rot, 165 

 Root excretions, 114 

 Root-rot, 159 



Roots, as food for animals, 30 

 Rosa, J. T., quoted, 76, 122 

 Rotation, 112 

 Rots, control of, 167 

 Ruktahi, 6 

 Rust, 162 



Sacks for shipping, 214 



packing of, 235 

 Salad, sweet potato, 49 

 Saw-flies, 143 

 Schizoeerus ebenus, 144 



privatus, 144 

 Sclerotium batatidola, 167 

 Scott, J. M., quoted, 29 

 Scurf, 162 



Seed-beds, covering for, 75 

 Seed, description of, 4 



potatoes, productiou of, 60 



selection of, 56 

 Selecting seed, 56 



Selling, 238 



agencies, 247 



methods, 252 

 Septoria iataticola, 163 

 Setting plants, 92 

 Shanghai, 132 

 Shanghor Yam, 133 

 Silage, 28 



Simpson, Cornelia, cited, 46 

 Sirup from sweet potatoes, 42 

 Sliced and baked sweet pota- 

 toes, 51 

 Soft-rot, 165 

 Soil-splotch, 162 



stain, 162 



types, 16 

 Southern Queen, 125 

 Sphaeronema fimbriatum, 160 

 Split-Leaf Yam, 125 

 Spray machinery, 174 

 Stable-manure, 110 

 Starch manufacture, 39 



sweet potato, 53 

 Stem-rot, 156 

 Storage, 179 



Storage-house, advantage over 

 bank, 185 



construction of, 189 



operation of, 198 



outbuildings for, 201 

 Storage rots, control of, 167 

 Sugar, 39 

 Sulfates, 102 

 Superphosphates, 102 

 Sylvinit; 103 



Tankage, 100 



Temperature of plant-bed, 77 

 Tennessee Notchleaf, 133 

 Texas root-rot, 159 

 Thompson, quoted, 203 

 Tillage, 90 



Tobacco decoction, 172 

 Tolman, 133 

 Tortoise beetles, 139 

 Track sales, 253 

 Transit, 229 

 Transportation, 229 

 Triumph, 133 



