Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-01-20

When all admit the prcPrlety OF sucn
course, why is it that SO few of our farmers
arc seen following il. Why do they still
keep on the old beaten path that is so ex-
pensive and leads on to ruin !? This sub
Iject brings forcibly to my mind the much
Improved "Porlable Girls, MiIl'' and the Cob
crusher" and ':Grinder' that saw at the
fine establishment of Messrs. Robt. Sinclair,
Jr. s. Co. when | was last in your city. 1t
seemed to me that i. was all that farmer
wanted, and that the day was near at hand
when acater and acind-milzs were to be look
ed upon as things that "had been, but are
not now." ! mean country mills for grind
ing corn-those mills so fruitful in yielding
toll to their owners-in vexing customers
by disappointments and short measure-in
OBTAINING often for days cart, man and six
oxen, to grind dozen bushels of grain
This is a common occurrence in our coun-
try, where millstreams are scarce and grog-
shops plenty. Any man who has a farm Of
200 or 300 acres would in one year save e.
nough to pay for horsepower and the ar
,ces above mentioned, by buying them and
being his own miller-taking his own toll
and saving the great difference in feed be-
tween ground and un-ground food. take
pleasure in heartily concurrng in your views
as expressed in the Nov. No. Of the Farmer
concerning Mr.. Maynard's beautiful mill,
and its fitness for the purposes i! was in
tended.
In speaking of Tobacco, in your last
number, you allude to Col. B. having Il trea-
tise on the subject. have seen it and i, is
practical essay, embracing the whole sub
jec, in its culture, preparation for market;
Its commercial relations to other products {;
its various uses and manufacture, and indeed.
he views i, in all its various phases: but
oplne the Col. is not the man this time 10
answer your complimentary call. He SAYS
she wants for that article something harder
and more solid than SOAP, even if it was
manufactured by his friend Sands.n ! learn
tina; an article on tobacco will appear in the
January number of tina, able work, the Gar
mers' Library" and will be hand<omel y illus
traled by colored engrsvings of lheinsec,. So
troublesome and I'M furious to its growth and
perfection. We wan, more light on the sub
ject of Tobacco. II is great interest, Sc
regard to it by our agricultural writer's! ]
was pleased to see a paragraph in the ga
merican"-,hat excellen. commercial paper
of your city-which stated that the crop
throughout the Union would not be more
than half as large this as last year, and that
it would be better, therefore likely TO raise
the price of the article and the standard Of
excellence. That is wha. we planters want.
The "American" can lose nothing by It's oc-
casionsl notice of The great staple of our
country.
The Polatoe Rot is destroying almost to-
tally the whole crop. The MERGERS are
more affected than any other kind. So far
my white mercer potatoes are going daily
with it, and it is so with all my neighbors.
Mr.. Governs 'Lady Fingers" stand it adj
mirably; the purple mercer are not touched
as yet with the disease, and that Prince of
pota,oes,-lhe Bowie Seeding, wealhers The
storm nobly. Out of 200 bushels of the
latter variety, have not lost half busheI,
and those had not the horrid smell that the
mercer has when it is decayed by the ROT
so that canno, say that they have the dis
ease a, all, although few have rotted bul
i, was decay similar to what has always
been seen among potatoes. am pleased
to hear that several have followed The sug-
ges,ion Of your correspondent, made some
months since, and have saved seed TO raise
seedlings. My friend Mr.. G. Graham, rails
ed some the present season Of very promis-
ing appearance, and entirely free from rot,
as all seedlings are, learn for some years
at least. Mr. G. is one of our best planters.
and at more convenient season, your cor
respondent will notice particular his exten-
sive estate, so neatly and orderly managed,
showing skill, taste, system, and industry
on the part of its hospi'able proprietor
While talking of potatoes, ] will mention
curious circumstance in regard to the growth
of the "Lady Fingers" When Mr.. Cow
en- sent them to me, it was late in the season
andthey were not planted until after the 25lh
of June. Just one half bushel were cut in
pieces, leaving one or two eyes to each piece;
one or two pieces put in hill !; the hills
3 feet each way; hand full of coarse barn
yard manure put in each hill, then covered
with the hoe ;-worked once with hoes, and
three times with shovel pillow, used for work
ing tobacco. On 10Th October they were
dug. The yield was. ffy-taoo heapimg half
bushels. Wherever a joint Of the vine had
been covered with dirt, small potatoes start
ed from each side of the join,-and have
now portion of one vine which has three
potatoes, from one to two inches long. at
tached to the vino, just below the apple or
seed fruit on the top of the vine where the
blossom grew; thus the blossom actually
was lying on the top of the growing po,a-
toes. This was what called growing at
top and bottom and all around, tho Mr.. G.
said in his letter to me, that they were not a
prolific potatoe, "but remarkable as an early
'rariety,"