HOW TO KEEP POTATOES.
A writer in the American “ Agriculturist ” gives the following advice upon this subject : —“ To * clamp ’ potatoes in the garden or field, select a place a little elevated, and dig down aa low as you can drain the excavation. It may bo 2ft., Ift., or but a few inches, according to the drain that it will command. Suppose that you have fifteen or thirty bushels to bury, the hod ohould be made about 4£t. wide and as long as necessary, with the potatoes about 4ft. or sft. deep in the centre. When all are in position, take long rye straw and set it against the two sides of the heap thick enough to shed rain. Then throw earth against the sides of the pile 6in. or Sin. thick; but none at the top, whore the straw meets, as an air-hole must be left open. And if the straw is well applied the potatoes will stand any weather that may be expected. This system is hotter than to put them into daop pits, as was the custom fifty years ago.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1986, 6 July 1880, Page 4
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