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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February i?. 
DRYING SWEET POTATOES. 
The sweet potato must be kept in a 
warm dry place to carry over Winter. In 
the vicinity of Swedesboro, N. J., where 
they are most extensively grown, every 
farm has its sweet potato house, fitted up 
with storage bins, with a bricked-in fire- 
pot and flue to maintain an equable tem¬ 
perature during cold weather. These brick 
furnaces retain heat a long time after 
thev have been thoroughly heated, and the 
potatoes stored under such conditions 
might very properly be termed “kiln- 
dried.” The sweet potato will not stand 
either dampness or cold without a seri¬ 
ous deterioration in quality, while storage 
in a warm, dry place improves the qual¬ 
ity and flavor. It is claimed by the 
Swedesboro growers that their crops of 
sweet potatoes, grown on elevated or 
slightly rolling land, are drier, better in 
flavor and keep better than those grown 
on the level land near the river only four 
to five miles distant. You are probably 
familiar with the fact that sweet potatoes 
grown on heavy loam are much moister 
in flesh and inferior in flavor to those 
grown on well drained sandy soils, but I 
have no doubt that the flavor and keep¬ 
ing quality of the wetter product could be 
greatly improved by the application of 
fire heat to dry them out. 
At Swedesboro station there are three 
very large storehouses for sweet potatoes 
capable of storing from 20,000 to 30,000 
barrels each, and these houses arc warmed 
to ensure the proper temperature, so that 
sweet potatoes marketed from these store¬ 
houses could also be termed kiln-dried, al¬ 
though there is nothing of an oven-like 
treatment in handling them. In our home 
management the Madame always gives 
her sweet potatoes a thorough drying by 
the kitchen stove when we get them in 
the Fall, as they always sweat after the 
barrels reach us, and when dry they are 
stored in a warm room at the top of the 
house, where they can be kept perfectly 
dry, and this plan enables us to have 
sweet potatoes in fine condition until the 
new crop is ready for the market the 
following season. The above statements 
regarding the sweet potato are equally true 
with the tender-skinned pie pumpkins and 
the Winter squashes. These fruits rot 
quickly if stored in a cool damp cellar, 
but when properly stored in a warm dry 
place they can be kept in fine condition 
until later in the Spring. During the past 
few Winters quite a business has been 
developed in the vicinity of Swedesboro in 
putting crops of Marrow squash in the 
warm storage or sweet potato houses to 
hold them for market in the Spring, and 
such stored crops have sold for $20 per 
ton in the Spring as against $8 to $10 per 
ton in the Fall. e. d. darlington. 
Mistaken Notion About Manure. 
F. T. C., Chicago , III .—We are managing 
a number of farms in North Dakota and 
other Western States, and are interested in 
fertilizing and making the land better and 
more productive each year instead of deplet¬ 
ing it every year. We are advised by many 
farm and dairy papers to have the manure 
hauled out and spread upon the land every 
day. The manure that is spread the day 
before it is plowed under carries about all 
of its strength and humus into the soil, but 
if the manure is spread upon the land and 
not immediately plowed under, then, it has 
been found that much of the strength of the 
manure passes off by evaporation into the 
air and does not. get into the soil. The ques¬ 
tion now arises, would it be better to leach 
the manure and put the liquid manure upon 
the land? The liquid manure would pass 
into the soil, and very little of it be evapor 
ated and lost. We do not know just how 
they leach it—presume the manure is stored 
in some cement receptacle, watertight floor, 
and water poured upon the manure by means 
of windmill or power pump, and the liquid 
manure hauled away and put upon the land 
as fast as it leaches out from spouts, drains, 
etc., from the bottom. Could you give us 
any information on the best way to handle 
the manure to obtain the liquid fertilizer? 
The pulp of the manure, after having been 
leached thoroughly could then be spread on 
the land and plowed under for humus. 
Ans. —The proposition you make of 
leaching the manure and then putting the 
liquid manure upon the land is not prac¬ 
tical. The losses take place in manure 
as a result of destructive fermentation and 
of leaching. If the manure is kept in 
piles for any considerable length of time 
more or less fermentation takes place, and 
this results in the loss of ammonia. If 
the manure can be hauled to the field and 
spread upon the land soon after being 
produced it will most nearly do away 
with the losses due to fermentation. The 
losses which occur through leaching usu¬ 
ally take place when the manure is piled 
in the barnyard exposed to the rain and 
the dripping of the eaves. When placed 
upon the land the soluble plant food is 
carried into the soil by the rains, and is 
there held available for the plant’s use. 
Unless the fields are especially hilly, or 
the manure is spread upon a coating of 
ice, very little loss takes place due to 
surface drainage. I know of no better 
way of preserving stable manure than to 
haul it to the field and spread it as soon 
as possible after being produced. The 
loss which apparently takes place in 
manure when spread upon the land is 
largely the loss of water through evapor¬ 
ation, and while the odor of freshly- 
spread manure would .seem to indicate 
that ammonia was being lost, yet this 
slight loss ceases as soon as the manure 
is dried. 
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