Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1848-10-14
VALUE OF THE POTATO.

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ing excellent remarks in regard to the potato
"The potato Is a vegetable which the ricf
man knows not how to forego; and one which
places the poor man above want. With q
shelter from the weather. and one or two
acres OF ground to plant with this tuber, man
may subsist at almost any distance from
the miller, the baker, the butcher, and may
almost add, the doctor 1t suits all tastes,
fiourishes in nearly oil climates, and is emf.
nenty nutritious and heal,hful. It's cultiva.
tion demands but little labor, and when the
earth has ripcned the tuberf, they are har.
vested without trouble, and cooked without
expense few faggofs in summer will boil
them and in winter the necessary heat is
supplied without expense. There is no waste
OF time in the process Of milling, sitting,
kneading, baking, seasoning. joiniing or carv-
ing. There is nothing deficient or superhu.
Gus in well boiled potato. AS soon as the
potato is cooked. ii opens by chinke, lets fall
its thin pelce npon the platter, and with
little salt, butter, or milk, is ready for the
unfas,idious appetite OF the hungry man.
Start not back with surprise at the idea of
subsistiug upon the potato alone, ye who
think it necessary to load your tables with all
the dainty viands Of the market, with fish,
flesh and fowl seasoned with oils and spices,
and eaten perhaps, with wines,- staH not
back say, with feigned disgust, until you
are able 10 display in your own pampered
persons a finer muscle, a more beau ideal
outline, and healthier red than the potato
fed peasantry Of Ireland and Scotland once
showed you, as you passed their cabin doors!
No; the chemical hysiologist will tell you,
that the we'll ripened potato when properly
cooked: contains every element that man re.
quires for nutrition; and in the best proper
tions in which they are found in any plan,
whatever. There is the aboundiug supply of
starch for enabling him 10 maintain the pro-
cess of breathing and for generating the
necessary warmth of body, there is the nitro
gen for contributing TO the growth and renno.
vation of organs; the lime and the phospho-
us for the bones and all the salts which Il
- -r.--.,le>,;e.- .laraa n1ls- fr C,,~-.i-
potato may well be called the universal
plant and the disease under which il now
labors, is a universal calamity. If any agri-
cultural institution should ever be so fortunate
as 10 make US acquainted with the means OF
controlling it, its name would quickly rank
by the side of the proudest universities and
if the gteal discovery should proceed from j
single individual, his name would live when
those OF the greatest generals and conquerors
have become as uncouih and strange TO hu.
man utterance as their deeds were unfriendly
and opposed to human happiness"
too MODEL FARM.
About l2 miles from Philadelphia, on the
road leading to Be hlehem, Eas.on, Allen.
town, Sc, the eye Of the traveller never fails
to be delighted with truly magnificent farm,
lying on both sides of the turnpike, the build
Jugs all on the West side, which is the very
embodiment of order and neatness. Here
the fences are always in the fines, condition.
barns always groaning under the weight Of
provender-and here are seen about 100 head
of the finest Devonshire mich-cows that are
collected on any one farm in the Common
wealth. That farm, reader, is owned and
cultivated by MoRRIs LoNGsrRrfH, the Dem.
ocratc candidate for Governor
The man who in the management OF his
own affairs gives such striking evidences OF
system, order, and economy may be safely
trusted with the management OF public affairs:
combining as he does, with these good quail
ties, the necessary qualifications and expert
ence. Private industry and integrity, united
10 general intelligence and correct views Of
public policy, are the qualifications most to
be desired in public officer In our opin.
| ion, no better man could have been selected
to gil the Governors chair than MonRIs LONG
srRrrn, the Quaker Farmer Of Montgomery.
| Wool Samuel Lawrence, q very large
dealer In wool, says that within s5 years we
shall produce greater quantity that any
other nation in the world, and says further
that there is moi now enough annually raised
in this country, by fOO,0oO,OoO lbs., to NEE,
the demand Of the manufacturers,
PoTAToEs. is now very generally con-
ceded, we beleve that the crop of late pota-
toes in this State, is almost entirelyfree from rot
and will give large yield. The early pota-
toes, on the contrary, We're more or less tam
ted. The same may be said of Connecticut;
in reference to the winter potatoes.-Bosfcn
Traveller
ION the contrary, the early planted potatoes
have done very well in Coneclicut' whi'e 'ie
later planted are inferior, both in qualliy ana
quantity, in consequences OF drought AT least
such is the fact in The Southern part oi 'he
State. Ia the Northern there was more ram
and the result may have been diherent.l-
Jour. Of Commerce.
! Ma. CoacoRAs has arranged satisfactorily
The business of the loan which he went to
/ London for A letter in the Journal of Com
merce says; 'The houses that have taken SO
1 y 4 = l.