New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-10

tons from intensely hot. dry TO cold and
damp. together with our forcing, over-stlm'
ulatinp culture, with view to large crops /"
has at length fallen svictim to disease whose
immediate Indictment is cold, vet chill, or
hot, damp rust or blight. Unusual and unsen'
isl weather always precedes and causes the rot,
ard no worm or insect is the usual cause Of
that calamity.
Mr.. Goodrichs remedies may be summed up
thus: Avoid late planting, which subjects the
CROWNS tuber to the maligu influence Of the
chilly nights and storms Of September. Culsi-
yate seedlings extensively, especially those
from varieties recently imported from the ma
tive cline of the Potato. (He instances the
Rough Purple Chill as the best of the new
varieties.) Bat do not rely on any established
varieties, and go on replanting its tubers from
year to year for the disease has not passed
awsy-on the contrary, it has become perma-
nent. and Will be more or less prevalent from
year to year in different localities, according to
the weather We must be perpetually plant
ing the healthiest bolls, produced from the new
est and hardest varieties, and then replanting
the potatoes thus produced for seedlings, as but
one in large number of new varieties usually
proves valuable The Importation of healthy
and primitive varieties must also be vigorously
persisted in. Such is nearly the substance Of
Mr. Goodrich's essays.
AN agricultural friend assures US that o
handful of Lime laid on the seed potato as it
is dropped before covering, will go far toward
securiDgit against the disease. This specific has
at least this advantage-if the Lime does not
prevent the rot, twill pretty certainly increase
the product and enrich the soil.
And now word of the great Remedy for
(or rather security against the Potato-Rot,
said to have been discovered in Michigan.
Our former article on this subject has brought
us letter from Mr. William Congdon Of Chi.
cago (Ill.) Agent of the asserted discOverer,
(Mr. Z. C. Roberts, of Washtenaw Co. Mich
which, with the accompanying certificates, we
are requested to publish. We shall do no such
thing Mr.. COngdon asks s. of each one to
whom the secret Of the asserted Remedy is
confdentially revealed and, if he wants to push
his business through our columns, he must
send on his advertisements and the cash. We
make our living by our business, whereof Adver-
Using is decidedly the more profitable part,
and We cannet make business Of advertising
for nothing. Mr.. COngdOn argues that TO pub
lish their discovery and appeal to public graft
tude for suitable reward, is all my eye
which We do not believe, provided that the
remedy is what il is cracked up for;) but We
shall deal with these gentlemen on their own
principle of so much for so much. We have sent
our s. and applied for the secret. intending to
try the process faithfully this season, and re-
port progress in ample time for merit years
planting Meantime We don't advise anybody
else to follow our example in this Open-your-
mouth. and. shut your.eyes experiment, for we
have not much confidence in it. We don't be-
lieye in selling any more than buying pig in
pole If this turns out well, we shall pub
licly say so; if not, not. Should any of our
readers see fit TO invest So in this blind bust
ness they know where to apply but they must
DO it on their own responsibility.
And this gives us fair opportunity to
say that we do not know, and of course can
not be responsible for, the nature of the vari-
Gus business enterprises advertised in our
columns. One day we see an advertise
ment that by sending 81, 80, s., or so to
such an address GENERALLY vague or fictitious)
any one may secure certain specified advan-
tages. In these cases We know no more of
the matter than any reader, and can only
guess whether il would be prudent for any one
10 comply with the solicitation implied We
presume some of these advertisements are in
serted in good faith and that others are not
and that the reader should satisfy himself as TO
which is which before he and his money are
parted But it is idle 10 write US letters with
regard TO such advertisements as we neither
know who inserts them, nor what they refer
20, and We have not time to write special let
tiers 10 set forth our ignorance in the premises
FRoN WAsHNGroy.-Mr. Clayton conclud.
ed bis speech yesterday on the Buwer and
Clayton treaty, condemning and scouting the