Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-02-24


secration, and finally prevented the ac-
cession to the American Episcopate of the
able and accomplished President Of w ash
ington College" L.
Januasy 81. 1871.
*The Diocese of Connecticut (preliminary)
in April, 1888. Bishop Seabury was conse-
Grated November IA, 1884.
Success in Sweet Potatoes.
At recent meeting of the Cincinnati
Horticultural Society, Mr.. Keller. by re-
quest of the society, gave an interesting
account Of his twenty-five years experience
in raising sweet potatoes. During that
period of time Mr.. Keller stated that be
had made the culture Of sweet potatoes
speciality. For many years the smallness
of the crop raised to the acre was sub
ject that gave him much dissatisfaction.
He tried various remedies, hoping thereby
to produce more satisfactory results. A
bout ten years ago he made discovery,
pro6ting by which he had ever since been
enabled to raise bushel of sweet pota-
toes from eight or ten hills with as much
ease as previously he had raised that
quantity from fifty or sixty hills.
He constructed his hot-beds not till a.
bout the middle of May. splitting the seed
potatoes length-wise and laying the cut
side down in rows across the bed. which
was ten feet wide. He adopted this width
so that the bed could be covered With
boards twelve feet long, as it was very
important to have the beds protected from
heavy rains. The seed potatoes in the
rows were placed, say half an inch apart,
so that if one should rot, the rot would not
extend to the next potato. The spaces
between the rows were from one and one
half to two inches wide. These seed
pieces were covered with three inches Of
soil. If the hot-bed was in proper condi-
ton, in two weeks or so the plants would
be about two inches high, which he re-
garded as the right height to plant. In
taking the plants up he did not pull them
up, but be carefully raised the potato from
which the plants issued, and cut a piece
out of the potato along with each plant.
By this means he preserved all the roots.
There was one set of roots which were
white, the most easy to come of, if pulled
up, which he was satisfied were the roots
which swelted into potatoes in the process
of growth. And to have large crop. it
was very important to have plenty Of
these small white roots attached to each
plant. By cutting off piece of the seed
potato, all were preserved. But, even
when all were preserved. sometimes the
number of these white roots was not as
great as, he could desire, in which case
such plant was rejected. He often had
plants. however, which had thirty or for
ty>of these white roots. .,a aa.
I He preferred new land on which to raise
lssweet potato crnp, and to have sidehill
or rolling land. He ploughed deeply,
and then by repeated borrowings and roll
ing he made it very mellow. 1t was then
thrown. up into ridges. and the hills made
from the ridges. Hepreferred small hills;
say not to exceed at their base the size of
the bottomdof half bushel, and then IS
high as they could be made. In planting.
he held the plant in the right hand. aBd
gently displaced the soil with the other
sufficiently to receive the roots Of the plant,
which he tried to have remain in their
natural condition. which was downward
rather than lateral In this way he raised
often bushel of sweet potatoes from six
or eight hillsI and three years ago he had
on the tables at the Cincinnati Horticul-
tural SocietyHs Exhibition bushsl yhich
was raised from only four hills.
The plants should never be transplant
ed into the hills until the season had SO
far advanced as to cause the ground to be
warm. Aud it was for this reason he
preferred not putting his seed potatoes in
to the hot-bed until the middle of May.
By proceeding in the way described (hav-
ing the rows of'seed-pieces one and a half
or two inches 5sparD he supplied himself
with fine stocky plants. in the place Of the
spindling plants grown when the seed po-
tatoes were crowded close together. "a =
CHICKEN CHOLERA usEs-REMEDY.
A writer 10 the Country Gentleman. speak
ing of Cochins, says They are much
troubled with what is termed cholera in
fammation Of the mucous membrane
caused by damp, sudden cold, and eating
too much green stuff; as cure. have
used with great success alum in water,
shutting them up and not allowing them
to drink anything else. at the same tune
feeding them with bread soaked in milk
with pulverized red pepper and charcoal
mixed in it--either one would probably
cure the disease, but think it best to make
sure Of it; with this treatment, in two
days they mostly will recover.
This disease is also brought on by the
fowls eating trash, such as rotten flesh, a
certain brown cut worm. and other larvae.
I have in such cases squeezed them out of
the throat. holding the fowls head down.
wards-administering the same feed az
above.
@"I have very little respect for the
ties of this world,' as the chap said when
the rope was put around his neck
EEOld maids are described as ''em-
bers from which the spark has fed"