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lieve other roots are more profitable to raise for that purpose, 

 but all the small potatoes will come in play, in feeding; and if 

 the farmer finds them difficult to dispose of, at paying prices, in 

 the market, they are worth twenty-five cents a bushel to feed 

 to stock, with hay at sixteen dollars a ton. Stock should al- 

 ways have some roots, during the winter, and potatoes will 

 answer the purpose. 



Sweet Potatoes are raised from sprouts or slips. Almost 

 any corn land below 41°, will give a good crop. The 

 slips are raised in beds, and transplanted, when three or 

 four inches high, or any time before they commence running 

 The slips are pulled, and the tubers left in the bed. Two or 

 three crops of sprouts can be obtained in one season, from the 

 same tubers. The soil should be deeply plowed, subsoiled 

 harrowed, rolled, or dragged, and put in the most mellow condi- 

 tion. Only well rotted stable manure should be used. Make 

 ridges three feet apart, by turning two heavy furrows together 

 Set the slips in these ridges, burying them nearly one half their 

 length. The after cultivation consists in keeping down the 

 weeds. They can be plowed out the same as potatoes. They 

 should be dug before frost. For keeping at the North they 

 must have a dry atmosphere of even temperature. At ordi- 

 nary prices a large crop of sweet potatoes is very profitable. 

 Other root crops will be treated of under the head of Market 

 Gardening. 



