40 SWEET .'OTArO CULTURE. 



can be kept sound. They sliould be dug after the frost 

 has partially killed the vines. 



Another Mode. — Another Georgia farmer gives his 

 mode of cultivation and preparation of the ground, in 

 the subjoined report of a cro]) which he entered for a 

 premium at the Georgia State Fair : 



" Broke the land in March, with a one-horse turn-plow, 

 six inches deep. Ran off the rows three feet apart, on 

 the 1st of May, with a turning-shoveU Bedded with the 

 same plow the other way, making the rows three feet 

 apart. Made small hills with a hoe, by drawing up the 

 soil lightly from the corners of the beds or squares be- 

 tween the furrows. Opened the tops of the hills with the 

 hoe ; put crushed cotton seed in each hill, at the rate of 

 fifteen bushels to the acre, and covered the seed with 

 earth. (Think the cotton seed did but little good, if any. ) 

 Bedded out my Sweet Potatoes first day of April. Trans- 

 planted my slips from the middle of May to the first of 

 June. Plowed twice with sweep, two furrows to each 

 row, and hoed once. Went over the patch (one acre) in 

 Auo'ust with a narrow hoe, and broke the vines loose 

 from the ground, where they had taken root between the 

 hills. Dug the patch October 15th. Yield two hun- 

 dred and fifty-four bushels and thirty pounds.* 



Mr^ 0. M. CuUen, of Hanover, Va., (in "Richmond 

 Planter and Farmer"), says in regard to cultivation: 

 "The ridges are thrown up from three to three and a 

 half feet apart, and just before planting the ridge is 

 raked down with a hoe or rake, or, better still, by the 

 scantling implement, a piece of scantling two by throe 

 inches, and six feet long, drawn by a horse walking be- 



*NoTE. — E. p. Meredith, Esq., of Hanover County, Va., says : " The 

 full productive capacity of our lands have never been reached, produc- 

 ing, in some cases, as much as three hundred bushels per acre of po' 

 tatoes." 



