The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-02-17
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Sweet Potatoes, Keeping of, SC.

OHCot AoCdtOeS, hccpluS VI, NC.
EDITORS SOUTHERN ,CULrIvAroR:
Your magazine for October is before me,
and l see an inquiry about Keeping
sweet potatoes. find no difficulty, and
will give you my mode
lst. | select piece of high dry land
on which to bed, (said piece Of land
must be close to the owners dwelling.)
The land being selected, | take shovel
and throw up circular bed six feet in
diameter, foot above the general level
ana fiat on top l Fill my dumping cart
with potatoes. Git holds about four bar
rc's-12 bushels,) drive right on this
bed, and taking off the hind gate, dump
the potatoes just where l want thcm
Then cover these potatoes with corn
stalks. say one foot deep, except an air
hole at the top. aud throw pretty heavy
bed of earth upon these stalks, leaving
the air hole open. Over this potato
bank place a chichen coop housc-at
least my covers can be used fnr coops,
when the potatoes do not need them
Put up that way. potatoes will keep till
late in the spring. When frost l. done,
take them up, place on some tight floor
and they will kcsp till they dry up, but
not rot
Subscriber" sends you cure for
bots--aud will give you another and
sure remedy:
Take half pint whiskcy, one tea
spoon full OF chloroiorm, put in n pint
bottle and fill up with water and drcnch
your horse; in all probability he will
not need the second bottle yet if not
relieved give n second dose, aud where
the stomach is not eaten through by
them, the horse will be relieved.
For Mango in Dogs--I have heard
that coal-oil Wagon greas, will relieve
it.
For Fleas, or any Insects--use carbol-
ic soap; a touch OF these soap suds will
Kill any of the inrect kind.
Cure for Cabbage Worm-A little
cable salt sprink,cd on each cabbage /;
salt used on corn being housed from the
field will destroy the wcevi. If any of
the readers Of the Cultivator have ever
put weevil eaten corn in an ohlirneatsand
smoke honse, they will say that their
corn was left pretty soon by those in
sects.
see turpentinc recommended for
worms in hos. $; AIN glad to know it, but
until copperas fails, shall nc. need il.
] In this section but few hogs are reared
and those few il turned on Full pea
field and not kill cd before spring, are apt
to die of kidney worms
To prevent it-give a feed Of corn
weekly, soaked in strong solution Of
copperas; and if n hog has the worm in
him, keep him on coppcras soaked corn
till you see the worms come from him
Speaking of pea fields, what is a good
avera,o yield per acre OF peas planted
~ corn ! Ri.ht now am thinking of
The pea crop, having several acres OF the
vines cut, lying in the field and the rain
pouring on them but think they are
no; lost to old IL other Earth on which
they lie Will you give the different
kinds of leas used for stock and dcscrp-
ton oi each In this section there are
some kinds that will injure cattle. | want
to know tie kind that does not-.s | al.
ways want to plant peas in corn. also
want my stock to take the run of the
field after the crop is gathered
In this part of the South, scarcely
any corn aud but little cotton has been
made. The sugar crop has not been
taken off and as yet we cannot tell the
yield.
X. J.. TANNER.
thcneyviUc, La.
Five bushels to the acre is probably q