Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-08-17
4 q rttultnrul.
NEW THEORY OF THE POTATO DISEASE
AND ITS REMEDY.

The following curious paper deserves q
careful perusal. 1t presents plausible ex
PLANTATION Of the cause aud cure of the pota
to rot. Any farmer may put it to the tes
Of practical experience. 1t contains many
other Ingenious views worthy Of careful con-
sideration
1.-The following very interesting paper by
David Ferguson, Esq, was read by the Rev
Mr.. Porter, before the Kilkenny Literary and
Scientific Institution. Prehxed to it being
an engagement by Mr. Ferguson to pay $500
promised in the paper, when the Council oil
the Literary and Scientific Institution decid.
it fairly gained. The Provincial Bank Of
Ireland, Kilkenny, is named as reference
The seed mentioned in the paper may be OBJ
tained from Robert Moyneax, Esq, Johns
Bridge and from Mr.. William Bryan, Scotch
House, Kilkenny.-Loudon Farmers Mag.
azinf
The potato plant is only an annual, EN-.
powered by God with two modes oil reproduc.
ton. The one, like the oak tree, lives only
lor years the other, like the acorn, liveth
forever Both reproductions are deposits
from the plant, different in chemical proper.
ties; Hvr and die' independent of each 9TH
er, with the plant providing Tor, but independ.
ent Of both.
Here exhibiting a potato stalk) is the
plant. This stalk, with its small f5res is the
annual. These eight apples upon the top pos
pess each from three hundred to three hundred
and twenty seeds each seed has the germ Of
plant with seed lobes which perform the
same Office to the germ that the yolk Of an
egg does to the germ of bird, supplying it
with nutriment until all its parts are perfect
ed by termination to supply itself.
Hence the seed of the potato apple is, like
the acorn of the oak, the seed in the apple Of
the tree, of the egg Of hen. These eight
potatoes at the bottom of the stalk possess
each quantity of eyes each eye possesses
the same property for a time that the seed OIL
egg Of a hen does; but the potato, like the
tree and hen, becomes aged and past bearing
the oak lives after it ceases to bear, as do also
the apple tree and the hen, and 50 also doe!
the potato. But the oak, the apple-tree ant
the hen die from age, and why not also thu
potato? Has nature made it an exception
Besides, like the oak, the applc-tree, anc
hen, the potato has graduating scale of as
cending and descending life. Here exhibit
ing potato stalk is a plant grown direc
from the seed. Observe the potatoes ar,
small, like marbles. This stalk bossomed
but had lot strength to form an apple. Her,
exhibiting a large stalk is another which il
one year older. Observe the difference il
the bulk OF the tuhers which are produced
They may be compared to a small egg increas
! ing. This stalk also blossomed. and potatoes
thus grown from seed continue to to blossom
up to five years, and then first begin to form
apples. Here exhibiting stalk) is plan
six years old, which bore an apple; conse
quenty, call the parent of this apple 20
tato the plants before it not being able tt
perform the functions of potatoe [ call germ,
Nos. |, 2, 3, and SO on, ascending according
to their age. t.tr 4ta
Now, to get out the descending germ, lei
us take this Jumper now exhibited. | car
trace the history OF this kind OF potato back
to the year 1878; and | am told that from
1926 to 1885, it was so charged with vitali
ty that it would grow without manure in any
soil, of large size, and producing one hundred
and sixty barrels to the acre, but Of quail
ty more lit for cattle than for man. Their
was the time to take seeds from its apples
and have the young rising into strength fol-
cattle, and the old losing STRENGTH but hecom
ing more dry and foury, for mans use.
), This Jumper, once the prince of potatoes
ike Its great pregenitors, the BARRIERS, kerkip
pms white Turks, red Turks, slipper potato
peeler potato Of Connaught, black-bu Of Ker
ny, and host Of others, each in there turr
iulSa supreme. They are now gone. Her,
is the Jumper, the cup, English red, and Irisl