The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-25

of over-eating One of these consists Of
three or four drops OF colchicum. stirred
IN glass of water II is said that the
bloating will cease in 10 minutes after this
mixture has been poured down the ami
mars throat and that second dose is
never required.
Kiln-Drying Sweet Potatoes.-An Iii
nois subscriber asks for instructions in
regard TO kiln-drying sweet potatoes, and
then goes on 10 explain his position. lie
says:
I'VE can keep them all right from fall
TIL spring by putting them in bins, and
Keeping in warm and steady temperature.
but the trouble comes in when we UNDER
take to move them, as they will rot and
fall to pieces in two to five days.
The growers Of New Jersey have a way
OF kiln drying them, which seems to pre-
serve them for a reasonable length of
time. Can you tell us how they do it?
The process of kiln drying is probably
similar throughout the sweet potato grow
ing regions. In Kentucky and Alabama
the following is the mode employed. The
potatoes are spread on racks in a closed
room or building and a fire placed therein
till the temperature is raised to 60 degrees.
This continued for three days drys them
sufficiently to keep them some months.
This heat for this length of time will
not prevent termination of tubers If
wished for seed purposes.
If the heat is greater and longer con-
tinued the keeping qualities may be pro-
longed, but the terminating qualities inn
paired. Thi drying out process is best
done as soon as harvested.
to circulate among the racks holding the
potatoes during the drying, some claim
it is benefit rather than otherwise.
The above is the custom of one of the
most successful sweet potato raisers OF
the south, Mr. $. X. Ashley, Fruithurst
Ala. His crop this year brought 60 cents
per bushel when ordinary potatoes were
bringing only 30 cents per bushel.
Upland Rice.-(Home and Farm.)-I ride
into the arena again on my hobby, upland
rice. My short letter last spring received
favorable "a an
constrained to write again on the same
subject, especially as the largest crop of
has just been harvested. The subject Is
worthy much ADLER pen than mine for
this cereal has proven itself of more value
this year than al the others in this sec
ton, and / shall deem myself a public
benefactor if can bring upland rice into
general use. Until the common cane or
reed produces seed annually in as great
abundance as it did this year in East Ala
bama, upland rice will be the greatest
cereal that can be planted for several
reasons. 1t produces more per acre than
corn, wheat or oats, with less work than
either, except oats, and will do well on
poorer land than any of them. 1 demon
strated the last fact this year by raising
a good crop OF rice on a WORKOUT hill
side that would hardly sprout cow-peas.
and the first by getting a better crop on
better land, but with hoeing only once
and never blowing il at all, so that all
the work expended on that piece of ground
was bedding the land. planting the rice
and hoeing il once, One of my nearest
neighbors raised this year 400 bushels of
rice on between ten and eleven acres of
rank new ground, and all of my neigh
bors plant more or less rice for stock
feed, as it is a surer crop than corn, pro-
duces equally as well, if not better. and
with much less work. 1t is Just as good
feed for all stock, cattle and hogs, as
corn, some declaring the straw superior
TO fodder as forage. There was plenty of
it cut in the f1atwoods this year thar
the entire field would average five feet
high, with heads from ten to fifteen inches
long