POTATO ROT, 635 



COMMUNICATIONS ON THE POTATO ROT, 



FROM CITIZENS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



NAMES ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. 



Adams, Ichabod, Duxbury. Potatoes half grown when dug, 

 would produce earlier potatoes than those full grown. Best 

 time for planting. May 25 to June 28. Dig as soon as the 

 vines fail. 



Barber, Jos. S.. Gloucester. Thinks mildew the cause ; 

 early planting the remedy. 



Bassett, Samuel, Taunton, having had twenty years' expe- 

 rience, believes, like others, that the potato has run out by age, 

 and recommends planting potatoes that bear plenty of balls, 

 and renewing the seed from the balls often, and at a distance 

 from the diseased ones. 



Bradford, Wm. J. A., Boston, in a printed pamphlet of 46 

 pages, evincing extensive reading and deep research, and writ- 

 ten with fluency and ability, expresses nearly the same senti- 

 ments as to the nature of the potato, its discovery, cultivation, 

 kind of soils and manures best adapted, the causes of its decay 

 and disease, with the means necessary for its renewal and res- 

 toration to health, which have been expressed by Mr. Dawson 

 and other able and experienced writers. Those who have 

 leisure and inclination to read these opinions at large, would 

 do well to procure the pamphlet. Here, only a condensed ac- 

 count, or brief abstract, can be given. 



The authorities quoted by Mr. Bradford represent, that the 

 potato was, for a long time, used only as a delicacy, — cultivated 



