Download or read book Sweet Potatoes and Yams (Classic Reprint) written by Barrett Company New Jersey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sweet Potatoes and Yams Prolific. The sweet potato is one of the most prolific of crops. A quality that is particularly important on the poor cotton or tobacco soils. Under the ordinary system of cropping. Land that will produce 20 bushels of corn or half a bale of cotton, will produce 200 bushels of sweet potatoes. On the farm of the South Carolina Station. Prof. T. E. Keitt obtained an average of 250 bushels per acre with fifteen varieties. With intensive fertilization and cultivation, yields of 500 to 700 bushels per acre have been obtained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.