New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-06

low level prairie 10 mark out roso, ana they shah
only dig the two bitches a, its sides throwing the
earth inio the middle TO round up the track, and now
ard then eros s-dch into the prairiethey snail 90
no more; but they shall have from one years end Ia
The other, good, smooth, hard, every way perfect
road. The wet prairies, nj thorougniafe iOr tne
ror dandy in lis buggy.
And then these roads would be infinitely the cheap-
et. Often they would be cheaper in their inst con-
structiou but always, in the long run. road thu.
constructed would last; and all the working II would
need from year 10 year, would be just 10 keep the
bitches clear, whereas, now regular siege mas 10 De
laid to the road every Spring and often two or three
times aiterward in the course Of the season. involving
an amount If labor and expense in each single toVn-
ship that would suffice for two three countesst to
speak within certain bounds, with the roads made as
they ought to be. Pathmasters might almost be dis
pensed With, and taxes for the highway DO reduced 10
a mere nothing. JOSEPH TREAT.
BUTIER-ISpucxMEsrs TO InrRoyE ITS Quhirr.
A few hard facts Of more importance than many
theories or bare assertions. 1t has been often asserted
that much of the butter brought to this market was of
inferior quality and hence its low price. Some of the
buttermakers in the country have thought US disposed
to cry down the quality to cheaper the price. 1t Is
not 80. We would gladly say all the butter offered
for sale is Of superior quality We cannot say so be
cause il Is not so Listen TO little actual converse.
ton with butter commission merchant, as it came of
this 3Cth day of January 1885, when we stepped into
the store Of Miller g. Carpenter, where we saw some
hundred or more kegs of butter, and sad
"Mr Miller, I want q keg of good table butter
what is it worth p
"such as you would have, 80 cents; but haven'ts
keg that will suit you"
moi Not among all this How is that y
81 cant tell you how, but il is SO. l do have a
good deal of good butter but il is snatched up almost
as fast as it arryes and have now standing order
for all that may come in strictly prime at 2S cents
pound, while the most of this will sell at u cents"
THAT is q very great difference-l4 cents pound
Just upon the difference in quality of butter"
1t is so, but ii is the truth"
Another commission merchant, hearing the conver-
sation sad
81 have about 100 packages Of the average quality
of all but prime butter in this city, which will sell al
I5c. to any one who will take the lot of my hands,
and know merchant who is offered % cents pound
for O large dairy which be has on hand, holding for
n cents"
"Is this an unusual season for poor butter 7"
"Well, yes perhaps it s but the proportion of good
butter in market is always very small ct the vast
amount sent here"
Now. that is the fact-not good keg of butter in
a hundred and difference Of II cents pound be-
tween good and poor. What an immense surn-wil
the farmers think what loss and who is that the
loss falls upon.
TIL SWEET PorAro-IIs IsorHEREAL PoslrIos.--
The native place Of the sweet potato is in warm lal-
tudes 1t was in our boyhood called the Carolina po-
tato and it was generally supposed that it would not
grow far north of that in perfection. 1t was at length
accimaed in New-Jcrsey and upon the sandy land Of
Long Island, but for long time no one thought Of
growing crop further north. But the sothermal po
sititn of this valuable plant has been gradually ad
vaucrg until it is now difficult to say where It's north
ern line il or will be.
c. S. Murray, of Warren County, Ohio, who is
probably one of the extensive propagators of the
sweet Dot ato in the United Statcs-making the raising
and selling Of seed and slips for planting specially
says:
III have numerous letters from my correspondents
touching their ln letter from one OF then
at IaddGD, Conn., be says:
"'Severa gentlemen who saw my largest spec.
mems Of potatoes raised from your plants, remarked
that they never saw larger of West India, Caro-
lima or New-Jersey. growth. l am thoroughly CON
vinced thatthey very successfully cultivated in
favorable locations, throughout our State
From New-lork a man writes:
al bad fine success with my sweet potatoes.
Though they were planted late they have yielded
handsome crop. have no doubt OF the practcabIlty
of growing them successfully along the Hudson
River"
81 call attention to the subject now, because 1t i3
time that good farmers laying their plans ~ to
how their grounds are TO be occupied tile coming
season. Sweet potatoes can be grown successfully 10
much higher ATTITUDES than has herefOre been generally
supposed. They have already been produced, well
maiured in Weetern, Central and Eastern New-York;
in Connecticut in New Hampshire, in Addison County,
Vermont near far north the center OF that State
In low they are raised to considerable extent and
something has been done with them in Wisconsin. l
have been successful cultivator OF sweet potatoes
during the dozen years of my residence In Southern
Ohio; so my experience and observation in II have
been something. If you publish this please tell me- in
connection, whether may speak briefly again IN the
matter"
Yes. Briefly tell those who never did raise sweet
potato exactly how to do il, from beginning 10 end
ust O. you would teach child how to spell the word
tn. WARN wIsTER-ITs EFFECT Uros THE EGG
TRADE-The high prices Of eggs in the Winter season
10 this city Neutrality-suspicious. retailing at or
cents each-has made it profitable 10 dealers to pre-
serve them in Summer, by putting them down IN lime
water, whence they taken as the price advances 10
cold weather and packed in oats to be sold as fresh
eggs Just from the country Frequently such eggs
are seut in from the country in the FAN, with orders 70
the commission merchant to hold on until the prce
reaches a certain figure. This has been done the
present Winter to large extent, and has proved bad
speculation. We were told on Saturday, by one who
knows, Of two houses in Washington street that held
over 800 barrels of lnne-preserved eggs, which the
owners expected when they put them up, would realize
at least IS or 30 cents dozen. Whether they will
may be judged from this fact: en- the last day Of JAN
uary 1855 eggs as fresh and good as ever were pro-
dueed by the old /" Blue Hens Chickens" were sold
in NewYork by the single barrel at l6 cents dozen.
barrel Of eggs packed in oats, contains from 60 to
eo l,a, A, tbs pYesenf nrce thew are not expensve