The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-05-12
yHARLOTTE. n. C. MAY az. 1872.

application Of il to the manufacture Of 81
gar from the stalk, and Of oil from the
meal. Below wall be found some comparl.
sons and deductions on this subject, and
view Of the true policy OF our country 10
relation to it and to agricultural industry
generally,
poTAroEs The Tabular View shows,
that in quite number o.! States the amount
Of potatoes raised IS very great. New
York, Name, Peuusy lyania, Vermont, New
Hampshire, Ohio, Massachusetts, aud Con.
uecicui, are the great po,atoe growing
States; more than two thirds OF the whole
crop are raised by these States Two
kinds, the common lash and the sweet pc.
s,aloe, as they are called, with the numerous
varieties, are embraced in cur Agricultural
\ Statistics. When il is recolleCted that this
7 product Of our soil forms a principle article
of vegetable food among so large class
Of our population, its value Will al cnce be
seen. The best common or Irish potatoes,
as an article Of food for the table, ave pro.
duced 10 the higher northern ATTITUDES Of
our country, as they seem TO require cold
/ er and moGstcr soil than corn aud the grams
generally. Il is on their peculiar Gdapta.
! ton 10 this respect, that Ireland, Nova
Scotia, ard parts Of Canada, are SO peculi.
arly successful in the raising and perectlng
Of the common OF Irish potatoes. Ii is es
umaied tha, in Great Britain, co age of
potatoes will feed more than double the
number of individuals that can be fed lsom
an acre Of wheat. II IS also asserted that,
whenever the Iaboriug class is mainly do
pendant on potatoes, wages will be reduced
to minimum, Ii this be true, the Gdyan.
tage Of our laboTng classes over those Of
Great Britain, 10 this respect, is very great.
! The failure Of crop Of potatoes, too, where
II is so much the main dependence, mast
produce great distress aud s,arya!lou.-
Such is now the case in Ireland and parts
Of England aud Scotland. Another dIsad.
vantage Of relying 90 this crop as chief
article OF food for the people IS, thai It does
not admit Of being stored up as It IS, or con.
yerlcd in some other fOrn for future years
as do wheat aud corn. Potatoes also enter
largely la;o the supply Of food ior the Go
nestle animals besides which, consldera
BILE quantities are used for the purpose Of the
manufacture Of starch, OF molasses, and dis
Citation. New varieties which have been
I introduced within a few years past, have
excited mech attention. and many Of them
have been found to answer good purpose.
Increased improvement, aud with yet more
successful results IN this respect, may be
anticipated.
Tie crops Of potatoes in lSil suffered
considerably in many parts OF the country,
and, perhaps, came nearer 10 failure thao
has been known for some years. In por.
tons Of New England and New York this
was particularly the case. 10 other sec
tons, however, # correc. Judgment may
DO formed from the notices of the crop,
there appears TO have been u more than
average increase. Ia proportion TO Der
population, Vermont may DO considered
( foremost IN tic cultivation Of potatoes. -
The sweet potatoe IS raised with some sue
cess for market as far north as New Jer'
sey, though the quality Of the article IS not
equal to that which IS produced 10 the moro
southern ATTITUDES. As tho climate Of the
West compared with that of the Atlantic
border varies perhaps nearly several do
grces within tho same parallels Of latitude,
1t NAV be supposed that this variety OF the
po,atoo can be cultivated even as high up
az Wisconsin or Iowa, in favorable sea
sons with tolerablo success.
HAY.-Thts product was remarkably
successful during the past year IN Paricu
lar sections of our country, in others less
90. la Maine, and in tho New England
States generally, there was more than an
average yield. In New York, which ranks
highest 10 tho Tabular View, il was Ugh.
ter than usual In New Jersey, ard the
middle States generally, it was considered
"good:" in the more Southern and South
western ones, lltiIc, comparatively, IS cult
waited. In the Northwestern States II ap-
pears 10 have been about an average crop
The extensive prairles Of tho West admit
Of grass, Of better varieties; and when this
ia done they will prove far more valuable,
both for the purposes of stock, and also ~
raising hay for the Southern market al
New Orleans, which is already supplied, tc
some extent, with this product, brought
down the Mississippi, from Indiana, Ohio
/, and Illinois, as well as by the Atlantic
coast, from the New England States and
New York. Hay is also on article oil ex
port, in some quantities, to the West Indies
To be Continued.