Show INCREASED VALUE OF SWEET POTATO CROP now ranks second among vegetables in united states former unstable and perishable product now marketed with practical ly no loss because of improved storage houses prepared by the united states department of 0 agriculture when it is considered that the value of the sweet potato has increased more than 80 per cent in the last ten years that it now ranks second in value among the vegetables iu in the united states that the value of the 1917 crop reached the huge sum of and that ot of 1918 1018 Is 1 estimated at almost it Is not difficult to understand why so much interest Is being taken in this crop the lowly potato so long accustomed to coming to market along with the farmers surplus eggs and chickens and other such products Is now moving in solid carloads to the markets of the north east and west only a few years ago sweet potatoes spent their winters in crude and primitive dirt banks in the open field and under such storage conditions many ol of them decayed dayed but now they are arc stored in specially designed and constructed storage houses in which it is possible Pos to regulate the temperature and ventilation in such a way that this formerly unstable and perishable product can be marketed with practically no loss at any season ot of tho the year |