Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-11-22

plants, undcr tho common name Of ''err
plart stem rot" We have found II &c.
CURING with black rot on sweet potatoes.
70! 10th IN the field and in the storage room.
cd spots on ali parts OF the potato. These
piitkish spots, wlAn placed under NIL
crHcQpe are seen 10 be spcrc sacks.
containing immense numbers OF spores
we have succeeded In making a pure
culture ,,n,i,r q this disease, and Infected a
shrivelled up aud became very hard and
dry.--R. II. Price, d. s.. Texhs AgrI.
cultural Experiment Station.
The vIneicss Yam.
College Station. Texas.-.-ierhaps NO
other vegetable novelty which has been
Introduced In the Spufh In recent years
has caused more comment than the
vineleEs sweet potato. The experimental
stage has been passed, and the value OF
ms variety, like that of the bunch lima
bean, has been established beyond ques-
ten. lu bulletin No. - we stated that
the tops of the vines Ucayes and stenlsi
could be cut with a mower. IL has been
stated as an objection that tho ground
IS usually too rough to run q mower
over. With nearly level culture We
have grown over three hundred bushels
per aess of this variety. and 81! the tops
cljld have been ensily cut with q mower.
The high value OF the tops for feed hns
been proven, hut it Is best to feed them
green, Us they do not euro well. Fire
quently II Is good practice to NOV on
the heavy tops and leave the gritty rum
nefs on the ground. Owing to the short
yihcs of this variety, which seldom grow
1t planted In the corn fields and grown
with fair success between the rows OF
con. Tho ground can be cultivated later
aud the crop can be harvested easier than
when running varieties are used. There
Is only one strain OF the yinclcss potato
that we can indorsc. There are two
others somewhat inclined to be yInelcss,
but the foliage Is much hess dense. and
Tho steina OF the leaves nrG not go long
nor so heavy MS In tho case OF the true
ylncless. The other two. which arc per-
hnps varieties of the true vlncless. indg-
inr from the resemblance OF the foliage
AM vines, have not proven themselves TO
DO as productive here as tho true vine.
less, This may account for the partial
failure some have reported on the vine
LEES, In one OF these strains there W not
only variation In the vines and tops.
but also IN the tubcrs, One has all me
flavor and color of the true ylneless, but
the other resembles very much In color
nul quality tho pumpkin yam. This be-
inr true, the vneless IL likely 10 become
the parent of nm entirely new race or
sweet potatoes, ranging In lunlity from
tho soft sugary ynms OF the south to
sweet mcnly Nnnsemonds Of the North.
rho vineless was found growing among
some hills OF the yellow yam potato In
In 1854. Just how II orlgi-
mated II not known. neither have been
abe to trace the origin OF the two yari-
rtrs from the vineless with certainty.
but all the evidence have been able TO
collect goes to prove that these varieties
were found also near the time and place
Of the true ylnclcss. pcrhala we owe u
10 insects cutting on the vines or 10 the
well known tendency of plants to produce
va -intions or sports" that this exessllcnt
-a -iety has come into cultiyatinn.--R. III.
Price. Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station.