I find no more trouble to protect the cassava stubble for winter protection than the sugar cane. X have a patch now, the second year planted, that is doing nicely; the roots or tubers are fairly beginning to crack the ground. Last year I made roots five feet long and four inches in diameter. I suppose these same roots will double in size this year, and continue on from year to year as long as I protect the stubble. I find that the cassava can be planted any time.

I have had better success by planting in the fall, and cover two or three inches with a plow, and box off in spring when the sprouts begin to show up. It can also be set out through the summer, as the stalks broken or cut to pieces and set out perpendicularly, readily strike roots as well as the sweet potato, and can be multiplied rapidly.

I believe the cassava can be successfully cultivated as a perennial plant as far north as Arkansas, and treated as an annual, can be successfully cultivated much farther north. Many seem to think because it comes from the tropics that it will not do above the frost line This is a mistake. Tobacco is a tropical plant, and yet it produces well as far north as Kentucky, Connecticut and Virginia. - J. L. Normand, Marksville, La.