Identifier: promisingrootcro164barr (find matches)
Title: Promising root crops for the South
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Barrett, O. W. (Otis Warren), b. 1872 Cook, O. F. (Orator Fuller), 1867-1949. Agricultural history and utility of the cultivated aroids Barrett, O. W. (Otis Warren), b. 1872. Yautias, taros, and dasheens United States. Bureau of Plant Industry
Subjects: Yautia Araceae Root crops Taro
Publisher: Washington : Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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are to be put. Of course,as much earth should be removed as possible before hauling from thefield; this can be accomplished in dry weather by simply leaving theroots in loose, shallow piles upon the soil surface. In the West Indies castration of the tubers is sometimesemployed; this consists in digging about the rootstock and remov-ing mature tubers by means of a knife or even with the fingers. Thisprocess is of course not advised in this country, except where tubersare required for the table early in the season. Where the plants may 164 Bui. 164, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate IV.
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Base of a Dasheen Plant, Showing Tubers. DISEASES. 13 be allowed to continue growth for eighteen to twenty-four monthsand where this method of castration is employed, it is undoubtedlypossible to take as much as 30 tons of tubers from one acre in thattime. YIELD. While single yautia plants may yield as high as 6 or more poundsof tubers to the hill, the average for common varieties in ordinarysoil may be reckoned at 2 to 4 pounds per hill. The yield of the taroshould be about the same as that of the yautia. The yield of thedasheen is 50 to 75 per cent of that of the yautia; however, in favor-able conditions the yield may amount to 4 or 5 pounds per hill,which should give 15 or more tons of roots to the acre. The yieldfor alocasia varieties has never been calculated, but will probably befound to be somewhat lower than that of the yautias. STORAGE. If kept dry after being harvested, the roots resist decay fairly well;small packages of tubers can easily be kept six months in a dryatmosphe

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