Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-19
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The PoTATo RoT.-We scarcely open
a paper which has not some complaint sim
liar to those which have been before given,
Of the total destruction Of the potato crop.
The Salem Reglst speaks Of the annihila-
ton Of the crop IN Essex county, and the
Providence journal records the presence OF
the disease in Rhode Island. The pecunia-
ry loss To the farmers Of New England in
the sudden destruction OF the most valuable
crop which most of them have rnlIrya'ed-
is incnicufahfe but the greater loss Is to
every family which has been used to have
upon lls table daily this valuable escu'ent.
Air adv the faint of the rot is sensible to
the smell, as soon as the potatoes are cook
ed, and the taste is the same as that which
nauseated every one when the disease first
and fatally appeared.
The Portsmouth journal, after stating
the loss in It's own section, says OF a remedy
even at this late hour
DR.. Heyes, the welknown chemist of
Roxbury, reported to the Agricultural
Society remedy for this disease. 1t is
this the moment the disease is supposed
dug and placed in bin, the bottom If
which is composed Of open Stats, under
which sulpher. birthstone is to be burnt,
the flames ut which, passing up through the
potatoes for an hour or more, will elfectual-
ly put stop to the disease, which he CON
slders parasitic OF iungous growth. Dr..
Ileyes says that this is fact which he has
established by numerous eXperments.-
How important, then, is it that our farmers
should avail themselves of this remedy -
Sulpher fumes are so volatile that there need
be no fear Of any taste being left in the po-
tatues.
The Granite Farmer, speaking of the po-
tato rot, says-''In one field, of which a
friend spoke the rot of the tubers was so
entire, that The stencil arising from the
ground almost forbid any one crossing the
field We learn that Gov. Hill has lost a
field oftwenty-four acres i'll this way.-Bos.
ton Courier.
10 Seven hundred songs for Jenny Line
have been handed in to the committee t,
select the prize song from.
Four GENERATIONS IN JAm.-There
said to be in one ofthe county jails in Con
necticut, little girl, her mother, granC
mother, aud great grandmother. Her
iniquity is visited upon the children unit
the third and fourth generation.
~ In note to a speach recently DIT
livered by Mr.. Giddlugs, inthe House
Representatives, in denunciaion of the tie
million grant to Texas, he states that "Ec
ward Curiss, OF New York, is said to hay
spent most of his time in Washington eli
durlug the winter, both before aud aft
the proposition to pay his vast sum to Tex
was reported in the omnibus bill. lie
said to h0M milton Of It1ds scrap
Buffalo Republican.
IL G. P. R. JAMES, Esq, the celebr
ted novelist, is about to deliver series
six lectures at Boston upon M0derH Ct0
station.
Dr.. BucKLAND.-The celebrated L
Buckland, the eminent geologist, Dean
Westminster, and private friend of S
Robert Peel, is, it is reported, berett of re
son. and in close confinement in lunat
asylum near Oxford Glasgow AdOertist
July II.
THE Loss or LIFE IN PENNSYLVANIA !
FLoop. AT Reading, eleven lives were Il
by the great storm and food at Tamagu
thirty-six bodies have been taken up, amor
them the pastor of the German Luther
congregation at Berwick, Columbia cou
ty, TWEEN, y-one lives were lost; at Mou
Heckly forge, thirteen persons, eight
them women, were drowned The numb
of buildings destroyed at Reading were
brick buildings, 81 frame dwellings, 63 ST
bles, workshops and Understanding