Experiments With Sweet Potatoes
Creator
Carver, George Washington
Date
1898
Subject
sweet potatoes
crop development
Relation
Tuskegee Institute Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin
Number 2
Excerpt
In summing up and drawing conclusions from this experiment, I think it quite safe to conclude that, with the proper management, 500 bushels of sweet potatoes can be produced on one acre of our ordinary potato soils ; since 266 bushels were produced under the following trying conditions:
First — Abnormally poor soil, physically, mechanically and chemically.
Second — Owing to unavoidable reasons, the fertilizers could not be applied at the right time, which decreased the yield.
Third — The plants were set quite three weeks late.
Fourth — The potato crop was practically a failure almost all over the entire South; the average yield in this section being about 87 bushels per acre.
First — Abnormally poor soil, physically, mechanically and chemically.
Second — Owing to unavoidable reasons, the fertilizers could not be applied at the right time, which decreased the yield.
Third — The plants were set quite three weeks late.
Fourth — The potato crop was practically a failure almost all over the entire South; the average yield in this section being about 87 bushels per acre.
Title
Experiments With Sweet Potatoes
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