T^he RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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CHASE 
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TRACTOR 
The ability to go through the 
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Those are some of the reasons 
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It’s one thing to work in a level 
field in mellow soil free from 
stone. It’s entirely another to 
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Keeping Sweet Potatoes 
On page 1078 Trucker, .Ir., whose 
commentary on any subject is always 
practical and well taken, tells how to 
store sweet potatoes commercially. For 
over 40 years, a full s pply for our own 
family has been kept as long as desirable, 
usually until we have peas, and with¬ 
out a single failure. When mature, dur¬ 
ing the last half of October, preferably 
on the morning of a sunny day, they are 
dug, and in the evening, spread thinly on 
an airy barn floor to dry and cure for 10 
days or two weeks. If any rot ever de¬ 
velops, it will be during this time, and 
there may be some in a wet season. 
They are then packed as close as 
herring on top of a kitchen pantry, and 
endure the variable temperature and air 
humidity perfectly. Three sons with 
furnace rooms in their homes cure sim¬ 
ilarly, then pack in berry crates, and 
shelves overhead, with nearly equal suc¬ 
cess, but small tiibere may be lost by 
drying. The four men always resident on 
the farm are generously supplied at dig¬ 
ging time and store as I do, and not 
once has there been failure. Countless 
friends have been taught to do likewise, 
but not one farmer in ten in Kentucky 
at least, has a tuber on .January 1st. 
The sweet jiotato excels the white one 
in food value by one-third. Its best es¬ 
tate is from December to April, but will 
keep indefinitely. In proof of this, a 
tuber stored last year, with all the siirouts 
developing in the meantime, is sent by 
post, and today is of better quality than 
Sweet Potato from Home Storage. Fig. 531 
one “fresh from the vine.” How strange 
so simple a method is unknown to tlu' 
counties.^ farmers who know this only as 
the Summer and Fall tuber! 
Kentucky. ir. f. iiillenmeykr. 
K. N.-Y.—The sweet potato here men¬ 
tioned is shown on this page just as it 
came by mail. The potato is firm and 
solid, and suitable for eating. 
Asparagus on Long Island 
S. F.. page 10."):!, may he interested in 
a method of asparagus culture practiced 
siieet'ssfully on I.ong Island. Seeds are 
planted, or roots set in well enriched 
ground, without trenching, and given flat 
cultivation the first year. In early Spring 
of following years furrows are plowed be¬ 
tween the TOWS, the earth being thri)wn 
upon the plants. When weeds appear, a 
board scraper is run lengthway of the 
row, throwing the earth back into the 
furrows. This process, wlilch kills the 
weeds and keeps the soil in friable condi¬ 
tion. is repeated until the asparagus 
sprouts begin to show, when a final hill¬ 
ing is given with the plow, finishing with 
a home-made implement which leaves the 
earth over the plants in a sharp inverted 
V-shaped hill. As low as possible into the 
side of this mound the cutting knife is 
thrust, to cut a long blanched sprout. 
This method should work well in light 
.Ter.sey soil. Little if anything is saved by 
.setting out the roots, as the plants do 
best when grown from seed without trans¬ 
planting, and by judicious thinning 
enough plants may be sold to pay for cul¬ 
tivation until the salable crop is pro¬ 
duced. W. B. CLEVES. 
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