Author : Lee Cleveland Corbett
Release : 2018-10-13
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 946/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Potato as a Truck Crop (Classic Reprint) by : Lee Cleveland Corbett

Download or read book The Potato as a Truck Crop (Classic Reprint) written by Lee Cleveland Corbett. This book was released on 2018-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Potato as a Truck Crop This plant, which is now recognized as an important article of food, as well as an important commercial crop throughout the north tem perate regions of the earth, is of American origin. Among the New World plants which have been brought under cultivation since the discovery of America, this stands out as one of the most important, being second only to Indian corn. Taking the world over, the potato is probably eaten by a greater proportion of the earth's inhabitants than any other crop except rice. The potato early found a wide use throughout Great Britain and the northern portion of the continent of Europe. With the development of the New World it immediately became an important garden crop and its cultivation has kept pace with the increase in population until now it is distributed over the entire area of North America occupied by civilized peoples. It is a commercial product in Mexico as well as in Alaska. 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.