260 POTATOES. 



ery, is more often spoiled for want of care than any 

 thing that is brought to market. When pure, it is one 

 of the most wholesome articles of diet, and no pains 

 should be spared to preserve it in perfection. 



POTATOES. 



We have lately given some hints of the fallacy of 

 testing the prolific qualities of potatoes and other plants 

 by the weight or the number of seeds planted. A 

 potato may be so subdivided as to produce an hundred 

 fold, when, in the usual mode of planting, it may not 

 yield ten fold. We again invite attention to this sub- 

 ject in noticing an experiment made by the editor of 

 the Zanesville Gazette, — a very valuable and inter- 

 esting paper, published in Ohio. 



It seems that, in a very accurate experiment made 

 by him, one pound of the long reds — the La Plata 

 potato — produced nine pounds more than the Rohan 

 potato under the same cultivation ; one producing thir- 

 ty-two pounds and a half, and the other forty pounds 

 and a half. 



The long red is a great favorite of ours, but we 

 think, in our soil, the Rohan will produce most ; but we 

 are open to conviction, and hope some of our readers 

 have made accurate observations on the comparative 

 merits of the two. We have never used any richer 

 potatoes than the long Johns when they have had time 

 to ripen. 



We publish the editor's observations at length. 



New things — Rohan Potatoes vs. Long Reds. We 

 have a desire for improvement sufficiently strong to 

 prompt us to make trial of all articles which are sup- 

 posed to be extraordinarily valuable, when we can do 

 so without incurring an unwarrantable expense. 



