The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1869-09-09
AGRICULTURE.
THE IRISH POTATO


Its not generally known that the
Irish Potato can be kept growing all sea-
sons, making continual crops all the year
round, but such is the truth of expert.
ence. To accomplish this there has to
be three general paintings:
LIST. In January and February, plant
according to the size of the crop you
propose to cultivate. t..-.
I'd. In July and August, at any time
or during the whole of these months, as
as you dig your potatoes for the market
OF home consumption, plant all the mid
de or smaller sizes, keeping the largest
for the table. This planting will make
you Fall and Winter crop which you
can dig and use from October to January.
Sd. In November and December,
while digging and consuming your Fall
and Winter crops, again plant with the
medium and smaller sized tubers, and
this planting will surely make you a
Spring crop.
These three consecutive crops, from
the barrel, or whatever quantity you start
with, can be made by any person who
will take the trouble to doit.
As the month of July is at hand, and
the potato vines dead, will proceed to
give some necessary rules to be observed
for Summer planting. Dig the potatoes
before sunrise or after sunset, never al
lowing the sunshine to touch them, and
house them by scattering them on a
floor in some dark dry room, for few
days-say two days totwo weeks. Ifthe
sunshine ever touches them they will
rotin the ground after planting. Always
plant before sunrise or after sunset
Tie plain and obvious practice is, to dig
two or more rows at time, and to save
the larger potatoes for the table, and to
plant all the other smaller ones.
The land should be deeply and close
ly turned over with a turn plow, or
spade, and furrows made three feet apart,
and not over four inches below the sur
face, for if planted deep, as in Spring
planting, they will keep dry and not
spDout and come up. Plant deep in dry
Summer weather, and you might as we'll
put them away in the mummy vaults of
Egypt.
After dropping the potato in the fur
rows fill up the burrows with any sort of
vegetable mould, or garden rubbish, crop
or any sort of grass from the cleaning Of
beds, walks, or the yard, and cover
lightly with soil, leaving the bed level.
AAerward, ifgassappears on the. bed,
hoe it of-and keep the crop clean
bedding up as the vines grow larger and
larger.
1t is important and proper to plant a
good and improved variety of potatoes.
Eor this section I prefer the "Goodrick
Early Seeding" 1t costs SIS 90 per
barrel at J.. NJ. Thorburn & Co.'s, New
York, or at David Landreth 4 Sons,
Philadelphia, Pa. This isa highly pro-
life potato, aud was raised from the
seed from the indigenous potatoes of the
mountainous country of South America.
The Irish potato is natl e of South
America, and was carried to England
by Raleigh, and thence to Ireland, and
"Pat," initiating the noted example of
Americus Yespuccious, named it after
himself.
Winner and. Spring planting should
be deeper, but Summer planting shall
low; the. land in both cases enriched
with deaomposed manures, and full and
free use vegetable mould and grasses
Nothing hetter in Winter than cotton
seed.-Eutaula Me10s.
GREEN CROPS AS FERTILIZERS