New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-10-21
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Tuv por.ro Ror.-A writer in the Bangor Wig
attributes the prevaien, disease among poiatoeS 10
The old age OF the varieties which ar. most at-ctso
hv IT. He says:-''i nave been torcib!Y struck
with this truth, that where the potato mas oecE a.
tackled with the rot, hiss been conhaeo, Win IL"
exceptions 70 those varieties which nave been pro
Dagated the longest, while those which nave BIN
fecentlv iotcodnced from the natural seed are as iE
AS n miik.Inad'. cheek The fact il, that mas, va-
-eties are actually diving WITH Old age. and Ike ne
aa,d winter hch nas,cus the old nan 10 his tor D.
70 the past has been rii. with ali the eir-
men:s necessary 10 quicken ,hcee pnrcpes o. &c
cav; as nave been visited WIN aimosf every e1-
IRENE to which cur fcks climate is suhjact
So far as the observation OF the writer has e1-
tended the Chenanso variety winch has heeG cult
waited by farmers Cor ioEE series Of veerS, mas DH'
most Effected by the disesse. The English whites
an lorg reds have not suffered 50 much, necaUre
g;,ey have eas constitutional detects, bur ines
have 20, some years, shown strong symptoms OF
decay
An intelligcn, farmer Of our Acquaintance cor
roboraers the opinion advanced in the ubo9e p'ra-
graphs, attributing tie disease TO the constant re-
plsnling of the same seed He says the 6istemPer
has become so c;al in lis consequences in some oi
The Eastern States that die farmers cali II the 70
tato Cholera TIE farmers Of Noys Scotia WHO
shipped large quantities fthis root; 20 Boston during
the past season. have lonS been acquainted NTH ne
disease and call il the RoI. IL seems 10 pef'sdt
particular farms and sometimes appeers IN the
stalk ike rust long before the potato has arrived az
maturity, and on cutting cpen the young ROOF The
disease will he found 10 exhibit itself III ulack spct
throughout the inside Of il. At other tiinez he dis
temper will appear ai,rr Inc potetos have been n'r'
vested and buried or put into tue cellar. Ine first
Indication Of the disease which the farmer receives
will be from an offensive smell arising rom then DE-
composition. His only rescurce then Ia 10 remove
them as soon az possible The diseroper in Il 'ew
inects the whole body, 10 ,naues how large II may
be. Tne progress Of t1s disyemper among the p :
r.,oes in Nova Scotia ses'ns 10 nave been somewhat
singular II would break out suddenly and spread
{,S farm 10 f.rn lila: 10 c. lar, lingering lew
Gears and then entirely disappearing tor Time.
The farmers supposing the epiIen'c wss located
somewhere ab5us IIe premises resor;sd 10 white
washing and cleansing Inslr cellars but 10 40 sIsc'.
A, length the evil was discovered 10 be as stated
above, 10 the continual Ieplanng o! the same seed
Like all o,ner plants, the potato finally deg'ne'aies
and runs out. The Nova cotians plant the bail1
md thus procure new seed which during the second
year arrives Ut maturity and iuit size, Seed mus
procured is proof against the to; and by this pfae-
tice they were enabled 10 furnieh seed potdos 10
some of our New-Ens gland farmers for last Spring
planting.
The dis,enper with this indispensable plant seetn5
no, to be confined TO this side the Atlantic, but has
leng been known to the people OF Ireland, whose
potg;o-eating propeEslties Gre 81 progcrbal. From
n gentleman from tina, country we learn that in
1916, the apple potatoes, which fer several years
previous was the iavore and most excellent OF the
many species then in existence in that country, ex-
hbited symptoms OF decay not unlike those already
spoken Of and ceased 10 be reliable portion not
only OF the sea-s,ock Of the emigrant, but was
seldom purchased for The more immediate use OF the
table. The result was that The farmers discontinued
lis cultivation unwilling 10 lose ,ker tine and I'LL.
age on seed which could longer sustain the Tepu-
ae,ion Of the stock and this IL still the custom there
II would hence appear that either unable or inds-
posed to inquire into the cause and nature OF tie
decay, they come 10 the root Of the eyi! by
rejecting the diseased cseuent altogether. On lie
sorsct Of potatoes, irish authority is not 30 vtry
bad