Show market prefers short and stocky potatoes the new jersey agricultural experiment has bus found th that a f the trade prefers short and stocky sweet potatoes rather than those of I 1 long ong and lean shape As a result of extensive fertilizer experiments it has been slit shown n w that the stocky shaped can not of be grown unless there Is a good supply of potash lotush in the fertilizer in relation to the amount of nitrogen by means of carefully controlled greenhouse experiments the reas reasons ons for the ohp effect of the fertilizer treatments were worked out it was shown that mal the ohp stocky shaped potatoes were higher in protein nitrogen than ohp long loin lean shaped potatoes when insufficient potash was available for the plants they were to synthesize suni clent protein to form the thick layers of cells necessary to give the stocky shaped potato similar effects of fertilizers ori on the shape of irish potatoes have been shown by other investigators vesti gators |