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Title: The world's opportunities and how to use them
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Guernsey, Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson), 1824-1902
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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tant than everbefore in the South, where potatoes have formerly been grown very sparingly ingardens only, and used for a few days or weeks in the spring as a vegetable ofpositive rarity. Their use has increased of late, and their shipment North isincreasing with the development of railroads and the tendency to trucking.But it is a lesson that has been well learned, that garden vegetables, roots, andthe small grains—all products which flourish in higher latitudes—must be grownin autumn, in winter, or early spring, before the heats of summer reach theirgreatest elevation. So potatoes are planted on the Gulf coast in December orJanuary; a little farther north, at a somewhat later date, adapting the time ofripening to the close of the seasons moderate temperature. And there has sprung up a practice which renders it possible to increaseimmensely the consumption at the South of this valuable food-product, whichcannot endure the heats of summer. This practice should give the Irish potato
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A FIELD BOUQUET.See Note 8. AGRICULTURAL SUMMARY FOR 1881, 1882. 171 a place by the side of the sweet-potato as a winter food for every days con-sumption. It is by late summer planting and early fall growth, ripening beforefrost, that this desirable result can be attained. In high latitudes and eleva-tions there has been some difficulty in getting an autumn crop fully matured.By making two crops—one in winter and early spring, the other in autumn—itis possible to have a continuous supply, and seed-potatoes grown at home,instead of being brought from the North, as formerly. Hay.— The grass crop, green and dry, says Mr. Dodge, is worth more than any other in this country. The hay isworth far less than the pasturage in intrinsic value. Grass de-pastured forms an overwhelming proportion of the growth inflesh of all animals, and bears an important part in the fatteningor furnishing of beeves. The hay crop was the only one whichin 1881 exceeded in quantity that of 1880. In 1880 there

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