Succulent vegetables are preserved best in a cool, shady place, that is
damp. Turnips, Irish potatoes, and similar vegetables, should be
protected from the air and frost by being buried up in sand, and in very
severe cold weather covered over with a linen cloth. It is said that the
dust of charcoal, sprinkled over potatoes, will keep them from
sprouting. I have also heard it said, that Carolina potatoes may be kept
a number of months, if treated in the following manner: Take those that
are large, and perfectly free from decay--pack them in boxes of dry
sand, and set the boxes in a place exposed to the influence of smoke,
and inaccessible to frost.