26 THE ROHAN POTATO. 



managed till much of it now hardly pays the expense 

 of cultivating. 



This must not be. The prices of our produce will 

 justify us in making more strenuous efforts to supply 

 the demand. In some of our numbers we shall go 

 more into detail, and offer some practical hints on this 

 vital principle of agriculture, this life-blood of our 

 hopes of improving our natal soil. We promise you, in 

 the mean time, we will not lead you into extravagant 

 expenditures of outlay, that you will never see returned 

 in this generation. We will leave all that to theoreti- 

 cal calculators, who never handled the spade or the 

 fork, and we will discourse to you " of what yourselves 

 do know." We will endeavor to stir you up by way 

 of remembrance in such a way that, like Paul, you 

 shall greatly magnify your office. 



THE ROHAN POTATO. 



To the Mditor of the Cultivator : 



Dear Sir, — Appreciating the motives which have in- 

 duced you to commence a paper, devoted to the in- 

 terests of the farmer, and at the same time affording an 

 agreeable and interesting family paper, with the hope 

 of adding something to the value of its pages, I have 

 taken the advantage of a few leisure moments to give 

 you some observations upon that remarkable vegetable, 

 the name of which stands at the head of this article. 



Potatoes are a crop to which our farmers do not pay 

 sufficient attention. When it is considered how valua- 

 ble an article the potato is, and that there is probably 

 scarcely a family in the New England States who do 

 not have them upon their tables at least once a day, it 

 would seem that there is no product of the farm to 



