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 In the latter end of October, or early part of November, prepare for preserving sweet potatoes for the winter. Select dry place, level the earth, and lay bed of dry straw, so as to form circle of about six feet in diameter. On this straw pile up the potatoes, until they form a cone foar or five feet high, over which spread little dry grass. Then cover the entire cone with corn-salks. set up endwise, with the buts resting on the ground, and the tops reaching over the apex, of suf- ficient thickness to conceal all the potatoes. Then cover the whole pile with earth, to a depth of at least foot, without leav.ag any air-hole at the top, as is frequently dones A small shelter should then be made, so as to prevent the rains from washing off the earth. This may be done by inserting in the ground about the pile four forked stakes, on which rails may be placed to support the covering, which may consist of boards, bark, thatch, or other substances. Potatoes can be pre- served in this manner until June, nearly as fresh as when first put up..

 In these months dress burr artchokes, taking away all their suckers, except three to each stock, open their roots, lay about them new earth and manure, and plant out suckers for another crop. Trim and dress asparagus beds, by cutting down the stalks and burning them over the beds Then dig between the shoots, level the beds, and cover them three fingers deep with fresh earth and manure mixed. Continue to plant celery, set 1t in gutters as it grows, and hill up Sow spinach, lettuce, and radish seeds, and plant out evergreens-they will dc now perhaps better than in April. Plant vines or beans and early peas, [.4gricultural Almanac.