Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05
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How Agricultural Scientists Are
 Enlarging the Field.
4 NEW VEGETABLE DEVELOPED.
The Chayote, of Eggplant Variety, Is Better and Larger Than Any of Its Kind-Short Kernel Rice From Jn- pan-success With Macaroni Wheat In semisrfd Regions of the West.

Kind-Short Kernel Rice From Ja-
 pan-success With Macaroni Wheat In semisrfd Regions of the West. New Workers who enjoy good things to eat and who go to the big hotels to feast upon new eontraptions in the cu-
 linary line are just now enjoying a
 brand new vegetable, says q special
 Washington correspondent of the New
 York Post. It is called "chayote" and
 belongs to tie eggplant variety, but has been developed by scientific agri- culturists so successfully that it bears about the same resemblance to the original stock as a twenty inch prize chrysanthemum does to the original
 little bloom the size of dollar, from which it has been developed.
 It is not an unusual thing for the ex- perts in the bureau of plant introduc- tion in the department of agriculture to receive almost plaintiye appeals from chefs employed in the great ho- tels for some new food product upon which they may exercise their ingenu- ity to tickle the jaded palates of their particular and finicky patrons. Epi- cures and persistent diners out make demands for something new in the line of eatables, something possessing just touch of sweet or tinge of acid which will differentiate it from the staple foods of which they have be- come tired.
 The task of discovering new foods is committed to the care of young men of scientific training who are sent by the government to all quarters of the globe
 to search for the merest snip of plant which seems to have qualities capable of development or to choose out Of forest nut bearing tree which pre- sents indications of commercial possi- bilties as producer.
 In following out such processes as these an insignificant plant stock bear ing limited number of small fruits has been developed into the new cha vote, a plant which in Its improved form combines the three important characteristics necessary to great val ue as food product-quality, produc. tiveness and reasonable cost. The cha vote will grow 500 fruits to the vine. a more numerous product and at the same time of better quality and of lar ger size than any market vegetable of It's kind heretofore grown. Growers may sell their crops at very low fig- ure and still make money on the in- vestment. At present a profit may be made by selling them at 10 cents apiece, and when the production be- comes more general the price will probably decrease at least half.
 Another food stock relied upon hy chefs for a good many connections of the substantial sort Is rice. For popu- lar consumption one of the chief argu- ments for acceptance must be cheap ness of cost The rice planters of Lou islana and Texas were losing s3.000.0oo a year through breakage of the long kernel variety in the milling process In vogue The manner of extracting the kernels by passing the stock between rollers Is admittedly bad. but no better system has been devised. Consequent ly the experts here began an investigs- tion, with the result that there has been imported from Japan short ker- nel rice called ''kIushu." Already one half the whole area of the Texas and Louisiana rice fields has been planted with 1t. A strange fact discovered in 1 the introduction of this Japanese rice Is that 1t does not do as well In wet . regions as In dry. For Mississippi it ls not so good a variety as they are now .-..u-s-.- i.,,. frr t,,a Taxaro tt fs rnrrch |