Author : Dean Humboldt Rose
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Book Synopsis Handling, Storage, Transportation, and Utilization of Potatoes by : Dean Humboldt Rose

Download or read book Handling, Storage, Transportation, and Utilization of Potatoes written by Dean Humboldt Rose. This book was released on 2017-11-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Handling, Storage, Transportation, and Utilization of Potatoes: A Digest of Information on the Subject Published Monthly From 1938 to 1948 Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry, Agricultural Research Administra tion, United States Department of Agriculture.) Several specific projects dealing with the general problems just listed have already been started by the United States Department of Agriculture and the State experiment stations. When this work was initiated it was realized that investigators would need to know what research had been done previously on the wide variety of problems of interest to the potato industry. Because the field of research in the program is foreign to that which has engaged most attention of potato investigators heretofore and many of these workers may not have ready access to the extensive library facilities available in the United States Department of Agriculture, the administrative advisors who supervise regional research projects conducted 'by the State experiment stations recommended that the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, andagri cultural Engineering be given the responsibility for preparing a digest of recent literature dealing with the physical handling of horticultural crops in the postharvest period. This resulted in the establishment of a project under the Research and Marketing Act for that specific purpose. This digest of literature pertaining to potatoes is the first in the series contemplated in this project. In conformity with the requests of the committee of administrative advisors of the State experiment stations, it is purposely confined very largely to the physical and biological rather than the economic aspects that are usually presented in considering the marketing of agricultural commodities. It is further limited by excluding most of the ma terial dealing with fundamental plant physiology of potatoes and the chemistry involved in the manufacture of starch and. Other industrial products derived from potatoes. To include all of this vast literature would involve an encyclopedic treatment not ger mane to present requirements. The aim has been to deal with the subject in a practical way, but to make sure that governing physiological principles are applied as rigorously, so far as the writers are able, as they would be by a competent investigator at work on a problem that might be called without any condescension a problem in pure research. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.