322 CORN AND BEANS, ETC. 



keep off the insects, but I find nothing like little 

 chickens. 



For the last two or three years, I have only 

 raised a few very early potatoes for home use. 

 They are a farm crop, and as I can raise a 

 bushel of strawberries almost as easily as the 

 potatoes, I prefer to take the nine dollars that 

 the latter will bring, and buy nine bushels of 

 potatoes. And yet, if one had plenty of land 

 adapted to the growth of this "corner-stone" 

 vegetable, and kept a horse, so that nearly all 

 the work could be done with a plough, it would 

 no doubt pay well to raise the Early Rose. I 

 have known them to sell as high as three dollars 

 a bushel, and a good crop at one dollar and 

 fifty cents would be very satisfactory. If it is 

 possible that I have a reader who does not 

 know how to cultivate the potato, let him ask 

 the first Irishman he meets, and he will get an 

 answer not far out of the way. At the same 



