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THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



but at Celle Sainl-Cloud I have subjected it to I chased Kalf a barrel oi" them for see.i, and oblain- 



various cooking and culinary processes. I have 

 had it tasted by great amateurs of the potato ; 

 and if its quality is not superior to severiil fine 

 and more succulent kinds, it is found at least to 

 be of a good taste, sufficiently mealy, and superi- 

 or to most of the kinds employed in feeding cat- 

 tle or making siarch.'''— Edinburgh Quarterly 

 Jour, of jjgricul. 



In the Farmers' JMagazine, England, there is 

 a notice of a Mr. Kimberly, who obtained, from 

 GO moderately sized tubers, 24 bushels full mea- 

 sure — the vines growing S leet. Another year 

 he obtained also a most extraordinary yield (rom 

 Ihcm. It is said, that in Paris this potato i.? Ire- 1 

 quently exhibited of ten pounds weight. There 

 they are cut in slices of about two inches thick, 

 boiled well, and are pronounced very iarinaceous, 

 or mealy, and of fine flavor. 



Mr. Geo. Hezlep writes to the Albany Culti- 

 vator, that from two Rohans, weighing \\\ oz. 

 planted in 12 hills, three leet apart each way, he 

 obtained in October, T75, or two bushels, heaped 

 measure, weiirhing 118^- lbs. And this without 

 any extraordinary pains — some manure only in 

 the hills, and two hoeings. 



Mr. Henry H. Hopkins wriles from Auburn to 

 the same paper, that a gentleman raised three 

 bushels from one potato. - 



Mr. A. M. D. Robertson, from Rnrck River, 

 Wisconsin Territory, sta'es that 13 Rohan pota- 

 toes planted late, in 18 hills, after suffering much 

 from the cut worm, produced a barrel larger than 

 a flour barrel full, and 3 pecks over. 



J. E. Ferre, of Agaivum, Mass., raised from 

 one tuber, weighing 6 oz. 34 lbs. of Rohans, be- 

 ing 68 fold. 



It seems unnecessary to quote more examples 

 of this kind, particularly as the above are but 

 trifles in production from tiiis singular species of 

 the potato, compared with some others we cannot 

 refrain from giving, especially as we shall shortly 

 arrive at some well authenticated statements re- 

 garding it in our own immediate neighborhood. 

 Mr. Jas. J, Jackson, of Wellsborough, (Va.), 

 says, in the Albany Cultivator, that from one 

 potato, weighing 10 oz., with 53 eyes, he raised, 

 the last season, 134 lbs., measuring two bushels, 

 being an increase of 214 fold in weight ; two 

 pieces planted in a hill. 



Mr. Levi Kobbins,ol' Copenhagen, N. Y. plant- 

 ed 6. lbs. 12 oz., somewhat injured by frost and 

 the grub worm, and notwithstanding these disad- 

 vantages, raised 70 bushels. 



Eut we desire more especially to direct the at- 

 tention of our western farmers to facts connected 

 with the culture and produce of the Rohans in 

 our own section of the union, the experience of 

 every day more and more convincinir us that it 

 is to experiments of ail kinds in agriculture m our 

 own part of the country that we ought to look lor 

 correct inlbrmation, and not generally to what 

 answers in the east or in Europe. 



We have then, \v'ithout referring to (he enor- 

 mous yields of this potato in some parts of the 

 west more distant from us, to go to facts within 

 only a few miles of Cincinnati. 



Mr. T. Worthington has, with sufficient accu- 

 racy for our purpose, ascertained in the cultivation 

 of these potatoes, that their yield here is prodi- 

 gious in comparison with other sorts. He par- 



ed from them 160 bushels. He plan'ed them 

 last season rather later than they should liave 

 been, and in ground which became soon after 

 strongly tiound hy hard rains; they came up for 

 some time wiih very slender stems, and the 

 ground when hoed was of course cloddyand in 

 an unfavorable condition lor their growth. Some, 

 of liis neighbors saw them, and predicted bad re- 

 sults, yet notwithstanding these disadvantages, 

 (the season however «/as :a\ arable,) tlie above 

 (160 bushels) was the produce from half a bar- 

 rel : and this was not all, their size must not be 

 omitted — iheir weight is from 1 to 4 lbs., (we 

 have them in our office lor inspection,) one now 

 before us weighs 4 lbs. 8 oz. Mr. VVorthington 

 feels confident that next season, with the best cul- 

 ture, he can raise them to six and even eight 

 pounds. To show that the growth of this potato 

 is naturally large, it has, unlike sonie other kinds 

 whose growth may be termed forced, no hollow 

 in the middle — and with respect to the quality of 

 the Rohan for the table, if it is not first rate, it 

 seems deserving of rank among the second class, 

 bur we are not able wiih our present knowledge 

 In this particular to recommend it. Fronri 2 !ba. 

 of the Rohan, we liave obtained 4 oz. of starch, 

 while from the satne quantity of the light blue 

 potato, 3^ oz. of farinaceous maitter was yielded. 

 We have to state, however, that the starch from 

 the Rohan was not so white as from tlie other. 

 Mr. Worthiiigion would recommend two eyes 

 being planted in a hill at three fijet apart, although 

 fie planted only one eye in a lull last season. 

 Mr. W.'s opinion as to this kiid of potato re- 

 quiring pretty deej) hillinff, perfectly coincides 

 with the advice of the Euio['ean atid eastern 

 cultivators. There is a great saving of labor 

 both in the seed, and in the crop in the harvest- 

 ing. 



Upon the whole, we are of opinion that the in- 

 crease of two kinds of root crops, the sugar beet 

 and Rohan potato, would be a great improvement 

 in this part of the western country. Yve think 

 that here both will be liir preferable to turnips, 

 Swedish turnips, &c. for stock, as aflbrding the 

 greatest amount of nutritious food from the same 

 quantity of land, and at the same time the most 

 milk-producing vegetables for cattle in winter; 

 and the potaio, when distant from a profitable 

 market, as boiled food for hogs. E. J. H. 



SYKOPSIS OF THE CULTURE OF RICE — ON 

 BLACK RIVER. 



From the Southern Agriculturist. 



On our way to Society Hill, we stopped a few 

 days with a friend on Black River. It was not 

 our iniention to investigate the culture of rice at 

 that lime, and although we had passed over the 

 Santees, the Sam-pit, and stayed a ['ev: days on 

 Black River, and moreover was at the very period 

 when this could have been best done, yet as we 

 had set out with a specific object in view, we were 

 loath to abandon it, and therefore left the culture 

 of rice Icr some fiiture examination, when we 

 propose visiting all of tfie rice districts in the same 

 season, investigating the several modes of culture, 

 and by bringing them together enable our plan- 



