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Excerpt from Cooperative Studies of the Delayed Harvesting of Sweetpotatoes
Experiments were conducted for 3 years at Meridian, Miss, and Baton Rouge, La., and for 2 years at Gilmer, Tex. Under those conditions the yields of apparently sound roots usually showed only slight decreases with delays of harvest as long as 5 or 6 weeks after the first killing frost. Delays as long as 8 or 9 Weeks, however, resulted in serious decreases in yields of sound roots. Although short delays in harvest usually caused no immediate loss in yield, roots that were harvested more than 2 weeks after frost spoiled more quickly and had less starch and less solids than those harvested at frost or before. These harmful effects became more serious as the time of harvest was further delayed. 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.
