New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-04

si1, Of the fruit Nearly all the foweri OF plants
rroducsrg small fruit OF their kind are erue VI Polots
in their sexual organs Few Q! s'e ors fertile or con.
80 botS seIuN organs perfectly developed; Inc
Durhsse A Angouleme pear and Hoveys StrawDerrie,
are examples o The flowers OF hlgnly oeveioPeo
futs ct those fruits which nearly perfect IN tner
Al rathe most imperfect their blooms and exoioit
f.vest fertile blooms. The rationale oi .nese ia~s
exhibt their infinite wisdom. every plossoui oi
1ree fertile, there c9ula u1 ., ~ ,ao e., rSs
Of fruits. - co,o, po,,.so. ro.a =. 10,
-. Giant n " which states that the writer,
E IN r Hogeboom, had twice tried the expert
go. ~ nIsnting large and medium potatoes, with
esut very decidedly IN favor of the large tubers He
also tried vey email ones The yield OF the crop from
o. large seed oneeighth better than the medium
s;z. snd ths medium one fifth better than from the
small ones the product Of the latter being like the
ssed 10 s,e and few in the bill He thinks with more
care setecting seed there would be ess potato rot.
THos. w. FITLD-lt is my opinion that much OF
the dsease OF potatoes comes from the unrpe cOndi-
ton OF the tubes when affected by sudden change in
the weather The great error in the discussion OF the
potato rot is the assumption Of the position that rot
specific disease while rot is but the decomposition
OF the tubes after its DEATH and may be the result of
many diseases. Thus rot Of the potato was in 1857
produced after eight ten deys of hot rainy weather,
during which a succuent growth was produced which
vas so immature TO lose their leaves under the heat
cfthe uncoaded sun, and the unnpened tubes rotted
VIZ. LswTos-I cannot find from all accounts that
u
potato disease 1t is inscrutsble disease the
Of which has not been discovered, and hence rem
edy applicable, and discussion OF the question nearly
useless. Who can tell what has blghted the syca-
more all over the country? Perhaps it is owing TO
Che Winter, was at first thought bat no one knows
Judge MEIGs-I agree that the disease is nscruta
be but the human mind is powerful, il may dis
cover the cause and the disease, by discussion
Of the subject.
Solos RoBISsoS-The subject is one OF such vast
Importance to the world that we may discuss II
every meeting, and may be laughed at Tor our pans
YET If cur discussion should be the means of discover
ing cause, or for the disease we could wei
afford 10 lay down at last, Satisfied that we had g.
least done good thing 10 our lives Tor the beneht Oh
our race.
A. BERGEs Ia Long Island farmer)-l do approve
scussioR upon all questions relating to agriculture,
as it may develop something beneficial not only re-
zstsg to potatoes, bu fruits. Our old old stock OF
Long leland cherry trees has failed and we have not
found out the cause, or a good substitute. A few
years ago could raise barley now that has passed
away sad we are obliged TO substitute otner crops
by talking with another, we may learn the cause
Prof NAsH-After all the discussion, we know
nothing about the pOtatoe disease, yet we may dis
cover something am sure that If we plant early we
are more likely, at best far have been, to get
good crops. Yet this may fail. Another point of .
practical nature is this: that if prepare our ground
well and feed it such ingredients the crop needs
more sure TO get good crop than by the oppo'
site
Mr. FHLD-I am sure that know that on wet Soils
OR on recently manued soil potatoes do rot more than
upon dry MANFRED land. So, if we have learned this
fact we may learn others by continual discussion OF
the question.
have failed upon dry SOIL while IN the same field, on
very wet soil, my potatoes were entirely sound.
Prof NAsH-The fact that the writer of that letter
did past large potatoes ano get greater yield I'M
important and it corresponds with the experience OF
most farmers As TO potatoes on wet or airy SOL,
have known crop good on swamp and ana oad on
the a6je ming hills the same year.
Mr.. FELD-Lime on caroOnaceous SOIL mas the
effect to make the vines less succuent and more
hardy and that may account for its prevention oil rot
on such soil.
Rrnoroting Worn ont So,ls.-The honr for miscel,
Ianeous business having expired, the Chairman called
up the regular question of the day and asked Solon
Robinson to give his views upon the subject.
SoLoE ROBIHsON-The Southern plantaIs, psrtcu-
iay Of cotton and tobacco, the grestest Destroy
els Of Of earths best gifts to man, tine power OF
reproduction and tenfold multiplication OF all food
prodscsg seeds that man may plant They have
Tesde millions Of acres, once fertile, SO utterly un-
productive that they have been abandoned as worth
less and forsaden by the owners, and afterward, III
charging owners, have been counted at mere nomi-
nal value. Within ten years, the lands OF some OF the
old Virginia plantations, within two days easywater
carriage of New York, have been, as II were, peg
ying purchasers like hawkers waves at one to four
siofars an acre; lands, too that were once cOnsid
cred gsIdenspots of America, the surroundings OF ps
Iatia residences of princey owners. kicn acres OF
laet sandy loam worn down to such utter barrenness
that a whole acre, aye, whole field would not pro-
siuce. old negro truly said to me once poverty
"grsss enough TO mske dis chiles ole hen a nest
Vet that field, 80 utterly barren, 80 cOppeu Wheh
newly cleaed of its oak forest with tobacco that IT
world longer pay for cropping; then planted with
Indian till indian corn would not produce enough
10 pay the labor then rowed with rye until Its largest
crop OF three bushels often failed and then
given up TO grow old field pines and poverty grass,
the last effort of exhausted fertility to produce vege-
tston. Yet such lands as these have been reclamed.
1t upon just such field as this that the old ne
yro stretched his hand over when he illustrated It's
former bauenness by the fact that he had ued in vain
10 gather grass enough to make hen nest
: Now look at him. said he, proudly. g See de
clover and de wheat. Seventeen bushe 10 de acre
first tina trying; and de clover-sh, you see MIN
Amt he big But | did tink my masss done gone
crazy, cure when he tell dis nigga dat he goln SOW
wheat dat field / never spec to see de end again
in dis world .
Faithless at the first the old fellow was now exut-
any iubilsnt to see the waving crop upon this aoan
soped old fied-to see it's remembered fertility, almost
a hundred yhars before, again restored. .
This pleasant was at the home OF the hon.
Willouehby Newton, W estmoreand County Virginia,
one Of the pioneers in the renovation of worn-out
lands. Now, what Wiloughby Newton and his COM
peers have done there may be done here aud there
again ana everywhere where old fields abound that
have been exhausted of their produotlVenees
There has been miracle wrought; no mage word
waved over the land; no costly application ana there
is mystery in the process; Is SIMPLY TINS SOW SOW
900 pounds Of guano per acre lightly powed IN, OF well
narrowed in With the seed, one bushe oil Wheat anu
six to eight quarts of clovereed per acre. Ihresh Tue
whest aod return the straw to the SOIL eVeuy sPiea
on the surface and LET the clover grow until ripe he
second wear and then turn under, having dressed It
in the Spring with bushel of plaster per re- and ~
the fall with thirty TO fifty bushels per acre WIN
powdered lime. This is a sure and cheap inode OF
restoring old barren fields to fertility. "a.
Other lands equally barren have been made prohta-
Div productive by the of green sand mari ana III
both cases without cost, because every year lho iu-
sre.ssd crops have paid the EXPENSE and now con-
tend thst all the worn fields of all the old States
and their number is legon-may be all renovated aud
made product at only the cost OF interest OF money
1non tie investment in fertilizers. No matter what