Sweet-potato storage
By: H.C. Thompson
Series: Farmers' bulletin / United States Department of Agriculture -- no. 970; Farmers' bulletin (United States. Department of Agriculture) -- no. 970
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Published: 1918
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Sweet potatoes; Storage
Other titles: Sweet potato storage.
Description: "The proper storage of sweet potatoes is one of the most important food-conservation measures that can be put into effect in the southern states. No perishable product produced in the South is as of great importance as the sweet potato, and none is so poorly handled. This bulletin describes in considerable detail the types of storage houses that have proved successful and the proper method of handling sweet potatoes from harvesting to marketing. For those growers who are not able to build storage houses, directions are given for saving the sweet-potato crop by using outdoor cellars and banks."--Page 2.
Notes: Cover title.

"Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry."
Table of contents: title: Importance of the sweet-potato crop; title: Essentials of good storage; title: Construction of sweet potato storage houses; title: Materials required for houses of different sizes; title: Utilizing abandoned tenant houses, warehouses, and other structures for storing sweet potatoes; title: Varieties of sweet potatoes for market; title: Harvesting sweet potatoes; title: Filling the bins; title: Curing sweet potatoes; title: Methods of heating a storage house; title: Storage pits and cells; title: Marketing sweet potatoes.