far, but this has been a very poor year by which to 
judge anything, for the unprecendented dry weather 
nearly destroyed everything. I hope to do much 
better another year. Respectfully, 
L. I. Deane. 
We should judge the sawdust and hair 
nearly^ worthless, but think the ashes and 
fleshings from the tannery well worth the 
prices you name. We have seen various 
devices for cutting strawberry runners. 
Shall be pleasedfto publish descriptions of 
any real improvement or device for that 
purpose. 
KEEPING SWEET POTATOES. 
New Burnside, Ill., Oct. 23, 1885. 
Mr. I. F. Tillinghast: I saw an inquiry 
from N. P. Kershner, Urbana, Kansas, 
asking for the best method of keeping sweet 
potatoes over winter. There are many 
methods and some are more costly than 
profitable. We want a method that will be 
cheap enough to yield a good profit. I have 
been growing sweet potatoes for six years 
and keeping them for spring market and 
have had good success. I dig my potatoes 
when I think there is danger of freezing 
the vines, or immediately after the vines 
do freeze; a light froot to kill the leaves 
don’t hurt them. 1 put them in the cellar 
the same day that I dig them. I dig them 
with a large two-horse plow, turning the 
ridge over with one furrow and taking the 
potatoes out of the loose dirt without a 
scratch or bruise. 
Handle carefully and pack them in bins 
as large as you please. I use bins five feet 
deep and about five or six feet wide, and 
my potatoes are invariably in good condition 
in the spring. My cellar is built in a side 
hill, covered over the top eighteen or twen¬ 
ty inches with dirt. I have double doors 
so I can close the out side door before open¬ 
ing the inside one, and thus keep out the 
cold air in winter. I keep my cellar at an 
even temperature of fifty degrees, never 
below forty-eight, or over sixty. I keep no 
covering over them at all. 
Will some of the readers of Seed-Time 
and Harvest give the names of the most 
valuable cabbage for forcing? I want very 
early cabbage and sure headers. 
Respectfully, J. B. C. Heaton. 
Iiiterary Mention. 
Psychomktry. The dawn of a New Civilization. 
By Joseph Rhodes Buchanan, M. D. We have re¬ 
ceived from the publishers a copy of a book with the 
above peculiar title, and we find it a peculiar book. 
It purports to be intended to introduce the subject of 
soul measurement to the general reader, and if the 
subject itself is as long and deep and mysterious as 
the introduction is, our lives are too short to waste 
in the vain attempt to fathom it. It is a volume of 
some 500 pages finely printed and nicely bound, and 
to those who have the time to devote to such sub¬ 
jects as the volume treats of, will no doubt prove of 
interest. Published by the author at 29 Fort Avenue 
Boston. 
We have received from the publisher Mr. Henry S. 
Stebbins, 264 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, a copy of 
Cram’s Unrivaled Atlas op the World, and for a 
family atlas we consider it fully equal to anything ever 
published at so low a price. Any of our readers who 
desire to become possessed of a set of maps in a con¬ 
venient form for everyday use, could not do better 
than to procure this. Price $ 3 . 75 . 
St. Nicholas. Like its predecessors, as well as 1 
everything else published by the Century Company, I 
comes out for November in first class style, and is 
fairly entitled to a front rank as one of the finest if 
not the finest youth’s magazine published. Each 
number is so attractive that those who receive it think 
that no other was ever equal to it in any particular. * 
$3.00 per year or with Seed-Time and Harvest at the 
same price. 
Orchard amd Garden. Mr. John T. Lovett, the 
well-known, wide-awake nurseryman, of Little Silver, 
N. J., has begun the publication of a new monthly 
journal of horticulture, under the above title, and 
the first and second numbers are on our table. It is 
a neatly printed 16-paged journal, of Farm Journal 
size, and is filled with articles of practical value to 
gardeners and fruit growers. Mr. Tuisco Greiner, 
an experienced gardener, and pleasant writer upon 
garden subjects, is assistant editor. We wish the 
journal success. 
We call especial attention to advertisement of 
the Ladies' Home Journal on our second cover 
page. This popular Ladies' Journal is soon to be 
enlarged to 12 pages, which are to be highly and 
artistically illustrated, and filled with the best origi¬ 
nal contributions of such writers as Marion Harland, 
Harriet Prescott Spofford, Rose Terry Cooke and 
others. Though richly worth its price, $1.00 per 
year, alone, we will present a year’s subscription to 
any lady who will forward us two subscriptions to 
‘Seed-Time and Harvest, with $1.00, before Christ¬ 
mas. 
The New England Homestead, published by the 
Phelps Publishing Co., Springfield, Mass., is one of 
the most readable of our exchanges, and we know of 
no agricultural paper which is more carefully edited. 
One special feature is its excellent market report*, 
which not only give the bare' prices that are Usually 
quoted, but also give the various conditions of the 
markets, as well as sound advice to fanners and 
