694 THE SOUTHE 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. 



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 with him, daily, if not ofitner. 



Mr. Geo. C. Reid is our Agent in Norfolk, 

 Virginia. 



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 and the counties adjacent will please call on 

 him. 



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August & Williams. 



Keeping Sweet Potatoes. 



We are indebted to our friend. Col. J. Lu- 

 cius Davis of Henrico county, for the details of 

 a discovery of his in regard to the proper treat- 

 ment of sweet potatoes in store, which will af- 

 ford a new idea to our potatoe raisers, as well 

 as give them a piece of information which we 

 believe will be worth to them more than five 

 years' subscription to the Planter (which is 

 only %2 a year), and we trust they will all profit 

 by it. One of our subscribers told us he made 

 last year a very fine crop, but lost a large por- 

 tion of it by the rot occurring after they were 

 stored away. 



They are worth taking care of from tlie fact 

 that they sell well, and are among the very 

 best of all the vegetables for table use. They 

 are equal to almost the same quantity of bread 

 — they make a first rate pie, and eaten hot with 

 a plenty of butter and good rich milk, they are 

 good and acceptable to almost every body any 

 hour in the twenty-four. 



RN" PLANTER. 



Col. Davis says the rot is produced by pres- 

 sure, and begins in the bottom centre of the 

 pile, gradually fresh potatoes come into imme- 

 diate contact M'ith the rotten ones until it 

 spreads through the pile just as a little leaven 

 leavens the whole lump. 



The remedy is to take off the pressure — so in- 

 stead of making them-into piles, they are pack- 

 ed away on shelves which are eighteen inches 

 apart. Those shelves may be nailed up to a 

 common piece of studding 3x4 inches thick. — 

 This studding should be boarded inside and out 

 with common plank, and filled in between with 

 pulverized charcoal, tan-bark, dry sand, or any 

 Avarm, dry substance. 



Potatoes thus stored away on shelves made ' 

 in this manner, in a dry warm cellar, will keep 

 until they dry up into mummies. 



When potatoes are dug, they should not be 

 " piled up" before they are dry, or otherwise 

 upon being cooked, they will taste as if badly 

 frosted, even before any frost has fallen to af- 

 fect them. 



" NEW'¥00KS. 

 Maury's Wind and Current Charts. 



Our thanks are most respectfully tendered to 

 Lieut, Maury, superintendent of the United 

 States Observatory'-, &c., for the first volume, 

 eighth edition, of his great work, entitled Ex- 

 planations and Sailing Directions, to accompa- 

 ny the Wind and Current Charts, approved by 

 Capt. D, N. Ingraham, Chief of the Bureau of 

 Ordnance and Hydrography, and published by 

 authority of lion. Isaac Toucy, Secretary of the 

 Navy, Washington, 1858. 



It would be the height of presumption were 

 we to attempt, with our short line, to take the 

 soundings, or to fathom the depths of this 

 learned work on meteorological science — the 

 fruit of unnumbered facts and observations, 

 collected with immense labor, and generalized 

 with such accurate—we had almost said match- 

 less discrimination, as most clearly to develop 



the great natural laws which " the wind and 

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the sea obey,^' and by the promulgation of 

 which millions have already been saved and 

 added to the wealth of nations through the in- 

 creased expedition and safety imparted to the 

 movements of commerce. 



Yv^e can but render to genius the profound 

 homage of our admiration for the ability dis- 

 played in the production of this work, while, as 



