Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-08-15
From the Dartmouth IN. H. Herald.

From the Dartmouth IN. II. Herald
Potatoes. have early potatoes, sci
sticks by those plants which first blossom.
and preserve their roots for the follow lug
year.
To have good potatoes, let them ripen.
There is no greater mistake than that this
vegetable will do well though planted late.
There is nearly as much difference be-
tween green and ripe potatoe as be
tween green and ripe apple. But POI
tatoes require a long season to ripeti.
They should be planted as soon as the
ground is open, and dug early before the
fall rains.
What are called solid or juicy potatoes
are green potatoes. When perfectly ripe
they are dry and mealy; unless they
have been exposed to soaking rains late 10
the season. Nopains should be taken to
clean them before putting them into the
cellar /; the more dry earth adlleres to
them the safer they will be during the
winter. But keep them as secure from
too much warmth as you do from frosts.
The best method Of planting potatoes
is to split them into small pieces, Ian eye
10 each and SOW them 10 furrow FIVE or
six inches apart. Let the burrows be
three or four feet distant from each other.
In ploughing and boeing disturb the
ground as little as possible, making it your
sole object TO keep down all other vege-
tables which take the strength Of the soil
from the plants. The hill is Of no use
whatever.
When ripe and mealy the potaioe is
one of the most nutritious of all vegeta.
bles, but when green and heavy it is in-
digestible and unwhoIesome. Irish pota.
toes are always mealy, and the Irish OF
the poorer class, robust and hardy race,
make them their principal food. Wei
have blue potatoe, which is always
meaIy, because it is species that ripens
early, and therefore does not suffer, like
the white or mellow potatoe, from being
planted late 10 the season.
Morning Machine "A machine is in
use 10 Maryland for moving with horses.
1t carries FIVE scythes; and is drawn BY
one horse, at the rate oftwo or three miles
an hour. Whether il can be made TO a.
dept itself to gentle swells in the land is
uncertain.
Rakiag Machine. The Shakers Al,
Canterbury, 10 this state, have some time
made use Of rake, drawn by horses, by
which on smooth ground, man and a boy
rake twenty acres in day. The head is
long, and followed by the man, who lifts
it when filled to make winrow.
Patent Churn.--A Churn has been in
vented by young man 10 Vermont, which
answers every purpose with very trifling
labour- II stands perpendicularly, and is
perfectly tight. The operation is per-
formed by person sitting near the churn
and working the machine by each hand,
as you work a pump. The dasher is
turned by means Of two leather straps,
which are fastened at Que end of the up-
right cylinder ADD passing each once round
it in opposite directions, are fastened al
the other end OF the handle on each side
of the upright. So that the stroke with
one hand turns the dasher once round and
that with the other turns it back.
When | look upon the tombs o
the great, every emotion Of envy dies
when i read the epitaphs Of the beautiful
every inordinate desire forsakes me; whei
/ meet with the grief Of parents upon /
tombstone, my heart melts with compass
sion; when see the tombs Of the parent
themselves, feel how vain il is 10 griev,
FOR those whom we must quickly follow
when / behold rival kings lying side By
side, or the holy men who divided tn,
world with their contests and disputes,
reflect with sorrow and establishment OF
the frivolous competitions, factions, ant
debates of mankind; when / read tn
several dates Of the tonbs---of some VIII
died yesterday, and some six hundred
years ago, am reminded Of that day
when all mankind will be contemporaries
and make their appearance together.
ADDISON.