Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1860 — CHINESE YAMS, OH DIOSCOREA BATATAS. [ARTICLE]

CHINESE YAMS, OH DIOSCOREA BATATAS.

By reference to our advertising columns it will be seen that Judge Milioy has received from M. D. Darna’.l & Bro., of Bainbridge, Ind., a box of the tubes and of the ajapve named vegitable, which he proposes to dell at one dollar and fifty cents per Judge Milroy has taken the agency for their sale in this county, not for pecuniary profit, but for the purpose of introilucing LfitJ cuiiivuiiun of ♦ 5 q psp.iilcnt into universal use, believing that it will prove a great public benefit. The Irish potato, the most common and universal esculent in the world, and almost as much of a necessary as bread, has, within the last four years, everywhere, become diseased, and cannot be depended upon with certainty for good and wholesome food. The Chinese Yam, from what we have learned of its qualities and productiveness, comes as a substitute every way superior to the potato. Judge Milroy has shown us a Yam of the first year’s growth, near three feet in length and about, three inches in diameter at the larger end. Every farmer and gardener should procure seed and commence the cultivation of the Yam at once. We intend to try it, and would advise all our friends to go and do likewise.