The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-10-02
The Irish Potato.
Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter Crops.

1t is not generally known that the
Irish Potato can be kept growing oil
seasons making continual crops all the
year round, but such is tho truth of
experience. TO accomplish. this. there
has to be three general paintings:
1st. In January and FEBRUARY, plant
according to the size of the crop you
propose to cultivate. ei 0
I'd. In July or August, at any time or
during the whole Of these months, as
you dig your potatoes for the market or
home consumption, plant all the middle
or smaller sizes, keeping the largest for
the table. This planting will make you
II Fall and Winter crop which you can
dig aud use from October to January.
3D.. In November aud 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 your Spring
crop.
these three conseculives crops, from
the barrel, or whatever, quantity you
start with can be made ty any persons
who will take the trouble to do it.
As the month af July is at hand, and
the potato vines dead, l wall proceed to
give some necessary rules TO be observed
for Summer planting Dig the potatoes
before sunrise or after sunset, never
allowing the sunshine to touch them,
and house them by scattering them on
floor i'll some dark dry room, for Few
days-say two days to two weeks II
the sunshine ever touches them they
will rot in the ground after planting
Always plant before sunrise or after sun
set, The plan aud obvious practice is
to dig two or more rows Mt ii time, aud
save the larger potatoes for the table
and to plant all the other SMALLER ones.
The land should be deeply and closely
turned over with turn plow, or spade
and burrows made three feet apart, and
not over four inches below the surface
for if planted deep as in Spring planting
they will keep dry and mct sprout and
come up Plant deep in dry Summon
weather, and you might as we'll put them
away in the mummy vaults Of Egypt
After dropping the potato in the
burrows fill up the burrows with any sort
of vegetable mould or garden rubbish
crop or any sort Of grass from the clean.
sing of beds, walks or the yard. aud cover
lightly with SOIL leaving the bed level
Aiterward, if grass appears on the bed
hoe it otf--and keep the crop clean
bedding up as the vines grow larger and
larger.
1t is important and proper to plant 4
good and Improved variety OF potatoes
Fol- this section l p e:er the Goodrich
Emly Seeding" 1t costs $500 pei
barrel at j. NJ. Thorburn & Cos. New
York, or ut David Landreth y Sons,
Philadelphia, la. This rs highly
prolific potato, and WAS raised from the
seed from the Indigenous potatoes of the
mountainous country of South America
The Irish potato is a native of South
America, aud Was carried to England by
Raleigh, and thence TO Ireland, and
pat" initiating the noted example oil
Americas vespuc:es, named it after
himself ..
Winter and Spring planting should be
deeper, but summer planting shallow
the land in both cases enriched with
decomposed manurcs, and full and free
use Of vegetable mould and grasses
Nothing better in Winter than cotton
sccd.-Entaua Nc'rs.