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Show Sweet Potato Has High Value on Tropical Menu In the tropics where the plant lives from one year to the next, the sweet potato Is eaten as a substitute for bread, and in Latin America it Is perhaps the most important single Item of food. In Jamaica, where sweet potatoes and yams are the principal item of native food, the vines are let run on poles and the big fleshy roots are carefully removed re-moved from time to time without disturbing the vines. The sweet potato is an exceed- Jngly important crop in our south-era south-era states, where It is second only to tho common potato. Yams and Jerseys are the two common varieties varie-ties to be found in the United States. Yams are best candled, but the Jersey Jer-sey is the best all around variety for boiling, mashing, baking or combining com-bining with other foods. Yams are large, with brilliant, salmon-colored flesh while the Jerseys are smaller, with light lemon-tinted flesh. |