The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1892-11-04

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Every boasskespeF knows Hhat %
axtremely dificalt matter It u 10 keep
sweet potaioea through the winter, Or
even through tie fall, withoat their
voting from too much heat Or too little,
Some few persons have 3 place which,
from peculiar circumstances Of stu
alton, etc, Is admirably adapted for
keeping them, bat all may not be able
Is secnre the same. Now, one Of my
neiehbora keeps them perfectly well
every year By pntting IN barrels,
covered with Old rags and set IN the
room OF loft above their chamber, but
the ceiling is not plsstened aud 30 the
warm sir can penetrate readily. The
foliswing directions were given to me
81 q lady who has been keeping them
ID this manner for years, and till late
IN tho spring She says they would
often pat up as many as twenty hve or
thirty bushels IN one mound, but Tor
small family several smaller ones ]
think prefeFahie
Select q spot 10 your garden from
which the water drains readily, dig q
trench around a spot as large as you
wish your mound, throwing up the
earth 50 IS TO raise il about twelve
Inches above The freBch. On this
place layer Of dry soil or road HHnd.
! In the middle Of this set mp kind Of
! pipe for the escapelof heated air, made
Of fuur three inch wide, inoh-tbiOb
planks, each piece bored quite tbiskiy
with big anger holes Zone and one
half inches diametef), the holes say
shout SIX inches apart, from bottom
to top Of pIpe. As soon as the P0ts
toes arc dug carry them 10 this place
aud pile them Up around this pipe
cone SHAPED, as these kiiRs are generally
shaped. When you haEe piled up al
Yuur potatoes take dry straw and sber
on thIs thF0w dry dirt Or sand nBtii i
lis about eight or ten inches thick al
ever
After all is mounded mp the plPt
should extend at least foot OF foo
and a half shove the top. In ord'nHTy
gesther leave this pipe open, but wbeI
frosty, cold nights OF days come, siUi
some straw or grass down the pip,
rather below the surface of top o
mound, and when IL turns warm pui
lt out. .IB real cold winter Wealbe
abr0a an Old piece of carpet OF sgme
thing over the pipe - addition. Max
shelter over the mound 90 that j
will not get vel. Plant four posts
Two 5siug about two feet higher thar
she other tEO; rail a strip 81 the tOI
of the two higher ones and another q
the top Of The lower ones; over thi
nail some boards or planks so as q
turn rain, and son hBVe a very goOI
shelter have found thai all Vego
tables put np in these mounds keel
better for being protected from FEin
and sans, IN other words kept dry
| IL SO Wsll to at least have two mound
/ for your potatoes, aDdsas they are pU
away separate The small ones from tht
larger, keeping The smaller ones TO
seed, which 10 almost every nelghboT
hood you can find a ready sale an tn
spring.
| / need not say perhaps, bat val
that It as best 10 get zoat enough
potatoes 10 last for a week or SO at Il
time, as, OF course, daily opening
snakes them more liable Va hurt. Ever
one can arrange 60 IS 10 keep SINAI
IqnantIty from hurting before asipg
Some will say thisia toomnrh lronbIe
, bat IL yon want 10 keep swsei potAtOe
you have certainly 20 take trouble
and if tbe end Is gained by simpi
filling up she pipe 10 cold weather an
opening # IL milder, that's "a sma
, trouble, 1 think. Tue lady that CAV
me these directions assures me tbai
potatoes are as sound In April Ms sFbe
first put up; bat they are particular i
, foiiOWiDg directions given. Potstoe'
. of course, shouid be dag when tb
ground is dry.