POTATOES. 17 



Dr. Baldwin. I have no big crops to brag of. I planted 

 about five acres this year. I have about a hundred bushels in 

 my cellar, and gathered about three hundred bushels for 

 market. The potatoes sold for sixty-five cents a bushel, which, 

 deducting the expenses, left me forty-eight cents clear for the 

 potatoes, delivered at the station. The best potato for my 

 use is the Dover, but it is a small yielder. We have a new 

 potato with us, that has not been disseminated at all, which 

 has yielded this year better than any potato that I ever 

 raised. It originated in my neighborhood. It resembles very 

 much the Jersey Peach Blow. I should say that potato yielded 

 this year at the rate of 200 l)ushels to the acre, wliere other 

 varieties yielded perhaps 150 bushels. It was hoed but once, 

 but cultivated and plowed several times. It has no name but 

 the Tarbox. The Early Rose, in the same ground, I hardly 

 think yielded fifty bushels to the acre. The Monitor yielded 

 full as much as either of the others, but rotted to a consider- 

 able extent ; not so jjadly, however, I think, but that it left 

 100 bushels to the acre. That variety is not so saleable, and 

 I do not think it so desirable as the others, although last year 

 it was mealy and good. 



Question. What is the character of the land ? 



Dr. Baldwin. An old pine plain, that yielded a great 

 many more potatoes, at forty-eight cents a bushel, than would 

 pay for it in any market where it can be put up at auction. 



Mil. Hutchins, of Danielsonville. What I have to say has 

 no immediate connection with either corn or potatoes, but is 

 intimately connected with both. The Yicar of Wakefield tells 

 us that his wife had a great notion of applying for letters 

 patent, and was exceedingly enthusiastic in her plan. He 

 inquired of her what it was that was so important that she 

 would like to get a patent for it. " Why," said she, with the 

 utmost vivacity, " I have learned that our daughter's hands 

 are never so soft as when they do not do any thing at all." 

 Now, what I have to say is little more likely to obtain a patent 

 than the discovery of the Vicar of Wakefield's wife, and yet it 

 is something which every farmer should have fully impressed 

 upon his mind ; and that is, that to the presence of iveeds in 

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