Sweet Potato Storage and Subsequent Changes Undergone by the Potato
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1917
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Cain, William
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The sweet potato ranks third in importance among the truck crops of this country and its importance is growing more and more each season. They have not been used in the northern and middle-western states until recently because of the ignorance of the people as to how to use them and also because of the failure of the southern farmers to successfully put them on these markets. With the present exodus of Negroes from the south to the above named regions, there will be a very great demand for the sweet potato, so it is the object of this thesis to collect all data possible as to the proper methods of successful storage and also to obtain any knowledge available of the physiological changes in the potato during storage with a view of experimental work with them in the future.
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The cover page reads "Presented by William M. Cain for degree B.S. in Horticulture." Degree granted by Iowa State College, Spring 1917.