THE FARMERS MONTHLY ViyiTOR. 



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Great yield of Rohan Potatoes. Mr. Stephen 

 Okdway of Laadon happening to be in Concord 

 on one of the last days of May, at the store of Maj. 

 M'Dnnlel saw some remnants of Rohan potatoes 

 which had been kept for sale. He was told they 

 had sold at seventeen cents the pound, and he paid 

 two cents for one small potatoe weighing- two oun- 

 ces. This he took home with him, and cut it into 

 seven pieces, which he planted in four hills — two 

 in three hills, and the smallest eye of nil in a hill 

 by itself. The ground on which these hills were 

 planted was in a spot of hard pan which had not 

 been manured for three years. It was near his 

 iiouse where ea"ly potatoes had been planted, 

 which had already made their appearance above 

 ground at the time. Mr. Ordway dug the product 

 of his potatoe on tlie 2lst September, the vines be- 

 ing still green ; and this weighed seventeen pounds, 

 or one hundred and thirty-six for one. The largest 

 potatoe weighed one pound and fourteen ounces, 

 and several weighed Irom one pound to one and 

 three fourths pounds. 



Thk Roiians. — A gentleman in this village [Au- 

 gusta, M'aine] jjlanted last spring a Rohan potatoe. 

 weighing six ounces, which he cut in twenty-two 

 pieces, and put two pieces in a hill. He dug them 

 on Wednesday and found the yield of his potatoe 

 to be 148, which weighed sixty-six pounds, and 

 measured five pecks. Another gentleman raised 

 100 potatoes, weighing forty-three pounds, from a 

 Rohan of about the same size and planted in the 

 same manner.— -A'c/t. Gaz. 



From a single Rohan potatoe sent to the Editor 

 of the Farmer's Monthly Visitor from Boston hav- 

 ing eighteen eyelets was raised full three pecks in 

 measure weighing tliirty-four and a half pounds, 

 and one hundred and ejghty-four in number. One 

 hill was entirely eaten by mice, and serious depre- 

 dations were made in some others. The weight of 

 the seed potatoe did not exceed four ounces. The 

 largest potatoe weighed two pounds. 



From eight pounds and ten ounces of Rohan po- 

 tatoes planted upon \''J'2o square feet of ground 

 fourteen full busiiels have been gathered upon the 

 premises of the editor of the Visitor the present 

 year. The mice made an extensive inroad upon 

 this crop, having, according to the estimate of the 

 person who dug the potatoes, eaten and destroyed 

 at least two bus!icls. The product' gathered was 

 at the rate of i^75 bushels to the acre — it would have 

 been much larger had the seed been quadrupled on 

 tlie same ground : for 



Samuel Marshall, Esq. ofHanipstead, present- 

 ed the editor on the first Tuesday of June with 

 three potatoes wcighinaf, as near as may be judged, 

 one pound each. These potatoes were of a new 

 kind : they were cut into twelve pieces, and laid in 

 a row about one foot apart. They were planted on 

 ground of the same quality as tiiat of the Rohans, 

 onl^' they were under the shade of a row of lusty, 

 spreading rhubarb, while the others had a fair 

 chance to the sun. The product of tiie twelve 

 pieces was one hundred and si.xty potatoes weigh- 

 ino- forty-two ])nunds, several of which v/ere more 

 than one pound in weight. The mice, intliiscase, 

 as in the two others, had tanen their portion. The 

 kind of potatoes furnished by Mr. Marshall is su- 

 perior to any we have ever seen, not excepting the 

 Rohans: tiiey are of a, light yellow, round, and 

 have a beautiful smooth skin. On good ground the 

 product of these potatoes might be made to be five 

 liundrcd bushels to the acre. They are double the 

 eize of the common potatoe the present year. Nei- 

 ther this kind nnr the Rohans v.'ere this year struck 

 with rust. We have planted five bushels of long 

 red potatoes, said to be of inferior quaht}'^ for the 

 table, which have also escaped rust, while the 

 round whites in rows along side of them have been 

 dead from rust ever since the first of September. 



Kr-Vnion in Heaven. — How short is the earthly 

 history of a family ! A few years, and those VvMio 

 are now embraced in a family circle will be scat- 

 tered. The children, now the objects of tender so- 

 licitude, will have grown up and gone forth to their 

 respective stations in the world. A few years more, 

 and children and parents will have passed from this 

 earthly stage. Tiieir names will be no longer heard 

 in their present dwelling. Their domestic loves 

 and anxieties, happiness and sorrows, will be a lost 

 and forgotten history. Every heart in which it was 

 written, will be mouldering in the dust. And is 

 this all.' Is this tiie whole satisfaction which is 

 provided for some of the strongest feelings of our 

 hearts? If it be, how shall we dare pour forth our 

 affections on objects so fleeting? How can such 

 transitory beinirs, with whom our connection is so 



brief, engage all the love we are capable o:' feeling.' 

 Why should not our feelings toward them be as 

 feeble and unsatisfactory as they ? Bui,b.e3sed be 

 God, this is not ill. Of this he has given us per- 

 fect assurance in the Gospel of his Son. Though 

 to the eye of unenlightened nature the ties of do- 

 mestic love scent scattered into dust, the spiritual 

 eye of faith perceives that they have been l)osened 

 on earth, only to be resumed, under far happier 

 circumstances, n the regions of everlasting love 

 and bliss. Tliuigh the history of a family may 

 seem to be forgotten when the last member of it is 

 laid in the grave, the memory of it still livca in im- 

 mortal souls, and when the cin^lo is wholly dissolv- 

 ed on earth, it is again completed in heaven. 



• Death of Judge BueS, 



It is with great regret that we are obliged to add 

 the name of Judge Buel to tiie list of honorable 

 men departed. He was seized with disease at Dan- 

 bury Conn., ten or twelve days ago, when on a 

 journey from his residence at Albany, to New Ha- 

 ven, for the purpose of dcliverin.'r an agricultural 

 lecture there. In spite of the attention of friends 

 and the skill of the physicians, the disease termin- 

 ated in death on Sunday last, and the remains of 

 the deceased were immediately taken to Albany. 

 Judge Buel has filled various ofllces of trust and 

 honor. Cut his cherished field of usefulness, was 

 in the pursuits of agriculture, and the ditfusion, 

 through the medium of his " Cultivator," of the 

 results of his intelligence and sagacity. Some years 

 ago he took possession of a portion of the barren 

 plain tv,"0 njiles west of Albany, and converted it 

 into one of the most fruitful spots on earth. 



yvt'W York Journal of Cummerrs Oct. 8. 



The death of such a man as Jesse Buel may be 

 regarded as a public calamity : his efforts and his 

 example for the last twenty years iiad added mill- 

 ions to the products of the country. His farm was 

 almost literally the work of his own creation : it 

 consisted of only about sixty acres of land which 

 had been deemed entirely barren. Hi? successful 

 culture of this ground had induced thousands to 

 " go and do likewise." His agricultural experi- 

 ment, unlike that of others, was to himself a pro- 

 fitable experiment: in it lie demonstrated tliat the 

 earth might be made tc> yield an increase ten-fold 

 o-reater than its present product. His "Cultiva- 

 tor" had a circulation tif .some twenty thousand 

 copies montlily, and was diffusing extensively the 

 practical results of many safe experiments. He 

 was sixty-two years of age ; and it may be said he 

 died at no time wlien his eminent usefulness v/ould 

 be pretermitted with greater regret to tlie whoh' 

 community. As a last eirbrt, he had just prepared 

 and transmitted to the publishers a volume on Ag- 

 riculture, being one of the series of one hundred 

 volumes intended for Common School Libraries: 

 this work is now publishing in Boston, by Messrs. 

 Marsh, Capen, Lyon & Webb. 



Dr. Franklin and Legislative Chaplains. 



Our great American philosopher lias not been 

 usually ranked among those who, among the re- 

 nowned names of the world, can be claimed as a 

 believer and follower of the Christian religion. — 

 Yet, in the testimony which is annexed, and which 

 we do not remember to have seen before, tJi(,Te is 

 such proof, both of religious faith and practical 

 wisdom, as to outweigh many vague accusations, 

 jXcid York American. 



Motion for prayers in the Convention. 



Mr. President: The small progress we have 

 made, after four or five weeks' close attendance 

 and continual reasoning with each other, our dif- 

 ferent sentiments on almost every question, sever- 

 al of the last producing as many noes as ayps, is, 

 mcthinks, a molanchcly proof of ihe imperfection 

 of the human understanding. We, indeed seem to 

 feel our own want of piditical wisdom, since we 

 have been running all about in search of it. We 

 have gone back to ancient history for model" of 

 Government, and examined the different forms of 

 those Republics, which, having been originally 

 formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, 

 now no longer exist ; and we have vie\^'ed modern 

 States all around Europe, but find none of theif 

 constitutions suitable to our circumstances. 



In this situation of this assembly, groping, as it 

 were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce 

 able to distinguish it when presented to lis, how 

 has it happened, sir, that we liave not iiitherto 

 once thouijht of applying humbly to the Father of 

 Lights to illuminate our understanding? In the 

 beginning of the contest with Britain, when we 



were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in 

 this room forthe Divine protection. Our prayers, 

 sir, were heard — and they were graciously answer- 

 ed. All of us who were engaged in tlie struggle 

 must have observed frequent instances of a super- 

 intending Providence in our favor. To that kind 

 Providence we owe this liappy opportunity of con- 

 sulting in peace on the means of establishing our 

 future national felicity. And have we now forgot- 

 ten that powerful friend ? or do v/e iniagine we now 

 no longer need its assistance ? I have lived, sir, a 

 long time, and the longer 1 live the more convinc- 

 ing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in 

 the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to 

 the ground without His notice, is it probable that 

 an empire can rise without His aid ? We have been 

 assured, sir, in the sacred writings, that "except 

 the Lord build the Imuse, they labor in vain that 

 build it." I firmly believe this ; and I also believe 

 that without His concurring aid, we shall succeed 

 in tliis political building no better than the build- 

 ers of Babel ; we shall be divided by our little, 

 partial, local interests ; our projects will be cr 

 founded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach 

 and a byword down to future ages. And what is 

 worse, mankind may hereafter, from this uniortu- 

 natc instance, despair of establishing Government 

 by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war and 

 conquest. 



I therefore beg leave to move — 



That henceforth, prayers, imploring the assist- 

 ance of Heaven, and its blessings on our delibera- 

 tions, be held in this assembly every morning be- 

 fore we proceed to business, and that one or more 

 of the clergv of this city be requested to officiate 

 in that service. 



Rohan Potatoes. 



The rage among cultivators, fir the Rojjan Pota- 

 toes, has in some parts of the country been more 

 violent and it is believed mucii more useful, than 

 the rage for speculation in Jiforus MulttcauUs. The 

 current price during tlie last planting sesson, was 

 something like i^-li) per bushel, and even at that 

 price, the retailers made an immense profit, by sel- 

 ling them out by the pound. The distinguishing 

 trait of the Rohan ia the reaiarkable abundance 

 with which it produces. A writer in a English ag- 

 ricultural paj)er states, that in 1&37, he raised from 

 sixty mode, ate sized Rohans, planted under trees, 

 and injured to a considerable extent by drought, 

 twcntij four bushels fait measure. In France these 

 potatoes frequently attain the v.'cightof ten pounds. 

 When cooked they are said to possess a fine flavor, 

 and from the abundance with which they yield, 

 and the consequent cheapness with which they are 

 raised, they v/ill probably when generally introduc- 

 ed, furnish an excellent substitute for the common 

 potatoe, for the purpose of fattening hogs and beef 

 cattle. — Coos Cointttj Democrat. 



Bone Manure. 



Horace CoUamore, Esq. of Pembroke, Mass. in a 

 communication in the Plymouth Rock, gives the 

 results of experiments made by him lust year in 

 the use of bone manure. He selected a piece of 

 Ruta Baga and Mangel Wurtzel. In every other 

 row, or drill, he sprinkled the bone manure at the 

 rate of a handful to three feet in length. The oth- 

 er rows were allowed none. Throughout the sea- 

 son the rovi's tiiat were favored with the bone ma- 

 nure appeared more healthy and vigorous, and in au- 

 tumn he says, he gathered four bushels of Mangel 

 Wurtzels, and two bushels of Ruta Bagas, from a 

 row — mixing six bushels to a row for both were 

 mixed together — and from those whicli had no bone 

 manure he harvested but two bushels; and this 

 dilterence, he bays, was unifcrm throughout the 

 lot. He thinks tiiat three cents worth of bone ma- 

 nure v/ill jiroduce a value of twenty-five cents in 

 a crop. The bone inanure is i>repared on a large 

 scale at Ward's Manufactory in Roxbury from 

 bones gathered out of the city of Boston. There 

 can be no doubt that this sort of manure is one of 

 the most powerful stimulants that can be applied to 

 the earth. — Mainr. Cultivator. 



Co.MPLiMENT. — A writer in the New York Sun, 

 pays the following compliment to New Hampshire. 

 It is a just one— New Hampshire has produced 

 something besides loco focos in her day. 



Kcenc Sentinel. 



[Our veteran brother Prentiss (no incorrigible 

 loco foco, as we always have been, and we fear, on 

 his account, always may continue to be) will adnjit 

 that the produce of loco focoa which remains upon 

 our soil and which contributes its full share to the 

 emigration and prosperity of the flourishing Slates 



