The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-04-14
Sweet EsOtii:ScS.

Every farmer should grow largely Of this
important crop for home use. Nothing raised
in this state yields n larger amount OF such
nutritious !ood as The sweet potato.
The ground for the potato patch ought to be
broken up now. Let it have the first dressing
OF barnyard or stable manure first, and then
plough it and let lie till about time for put
ting out the sets. Ii you wish to make big
crop you must put on the manure ina big way
too. 4 hundred loads of manure to thc acre
is none too much to insure q good crop or
sweet potatoes. Put on half OF 1t before
plGughng, and the remaining half soon alter,
spreading it over tic surface evenly, ana let
ii lie.
There is no better fcrtilzer for this crop
than good stable manure, and liberal appllcil-
tionS OF this will insure Il fine crop without
the row after one iul'row has been turned, and
before the ridge has been completed, will as
sist the plants very much in making growth
and developing roots: Ilai @ m o9S h,p OF ,pn0s- ios
nurc. oughtto mako n fine yield. y whole
bag, with the same. will make an enormous
crop. But the stable manure alone VIII pro-
uucc finely.
in the absence Of phosphate, or enough Of
the stable manurr, chip dirt from 4 woCu pile,
mixed with ashes, makes an excellent SubStI-
tutc \ icw barrels o: old a~hcS, mixed with
fifty loads OF chip dirt OF rich scrapinGS, ana
fifty loads Of stable manure. will enrich an
acre of ground TO yield from 2n to 500 bushels
of good size potatoes. Hog or coW-rcn ma
nurc may De u>ct ~ pace Vi SldOlc Iitdu uiC
with nearly equal effect.
In place of ashes mari may he used. IN TACT
good mull is Il No. fertilizer for tie sweet pO-
tul0 and land that has been liberallS married
will produce fine potatoes with very small APP
plicHliOns of other nllni,rc$. Ills, therefore,
economical to use mari literally, and save
some OF the stable manure for other crops.
DO not forget however, that the sweet Pota-
to never goes back on manurc-you cannot
give il too much elsil%--and II You want tC
make Il big crop on Il little land you must pile
on the manure early, late and long. We have
heard OF n thousand bushels of potatoes llhV-
ing b, ell grown on one acre. But me ground
had been repeatedly manured until IL was llt-
orally full OF II. A.,
manure oven Il larger surface, and enriched
more ground. The sweet pOtat crop Is Il great
ilnprovcr Of tie So!l-whrn ibcraiy manur-
r,l-aud every farmer ought tn grow it largely
for this PURPOSE alone. II is excellent food for
hors and would pay to raise for that also.
The white yam. yellow bark, lihEnan ana
red yam ARE thu most prolific Sorts. Inc red,
Spanish and "shue string in a|lnslon to the
vinrs) arc excellent for eating. but not SO pro-
durtirc rs the others Make your not hcI me
first week in April. and IGu ought to have
drawers tn set by middle o. May. The patch
should be $ct before 10Th OF Jnnr
TIE rnrn r!aniiHg season is ut hand, and 1t
wuuid be well for Our IArlEcrS to remember
that corn i> one of the cheapest prGductS they
can .ruw, and uuC ct the dearest when ii Is to
bc purchased I! is IL prime necessity on cv-
cry farm and makes most excellent food for
n,rn and Ira>!. Is not this tlur: Every i'll
1rliigcrt man must acknowledges The corn.
Faster this year Ills on !: day on which no
living person ever celebrated il, an! OH which
!nw now living will again celebrate il. IT falls
ON April ., u fact that i.as not OF; u:rcd siEce
1854. ana MIl not u5;ti! before iJJi.