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required ; but, as a general rule cultivators find it pays 

 best to give the plants jjrojier food and enough of it. 



W. B. McDaniel, of Georgia, says : " We have used 

 Cumberland superphosphate at the rate of two hundred 

 pounds per acre, and it doubled the yield, and made two 

 hundred bushels without other fertilizers. We also ob- 

 tained the same gratifying results from a brand of am- 

 mouiated bone." 



CHAPTER XX. 

 PROPAGATING THE SWEET FOTATO.- Additional 



In Chapter VII. of this work full directions will be 

 found for pre})aring hot-beds for sweet potatoes, and for 

 giving them a fair start. 



How TO Transplant Successfully. — As further in- 

 formation, we give the different views on this su])ject. 

 Commissioner Henderson, of Georgia, gives Georgia 

 farmers some excellent advice on transplanting. He 

 thinks if farmers would cease to rely on the clouds for 

 the moisture necessary to ensure the life of the trans- 

 planted slips, they would find no great difficulty in secur- 

 ing an early stand. 



It is advised that the ground intended for potatoes 

 should be kept in good tilth by repeated plowings, and 

 when the slips are ready, set out at once. It is only nec- 

 essary to have the ground freshly plowed. Strike off the 

 crown of the ridge with a board or hoc ; set the plant in 

 place and pour in a gill or half a pint of Avater, so as to 

 wash the fine earth into the holes around the roots. This 

 should be done late in the afternoon, and the next morn- 

 ing the wet soil and the partly filled holes may be j3oy- 

 ered with fine soil. 



