Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-01-26
Marx TMain,s Monderful Va ! Potato. o.

Some of our readers, or their neigh
bors, may be in want of form of certi-
fcate to append to a description of
some vegetable novelty, real or ina
gined, and we offer the following as one
of the best O.. n" ..f-f fi 90
Mark Twain has been visiting Beech
er's farm, Greeley's farm, and the farms
of many of our leading city farmers, SO
that he has fallen completely in love
with the. business, and especially the
part of it which raises the wonderful
new Seeding. He stated his agricultu-
raj line by the announcement of a new
potato. He thus tells its origin: 81
obtained it by crossing the yam of the
tropics with the Canadian thistle, and
by carefully selecting and cultivating
the specimen for several seasons l have
secured product that permanently
combines the earliness of the former
and the endurance of the latter; in
other words, my new potato is asrare
combination of speed and bottom, and
it will do to bet on. l christened it
the Early Sumner name suggested
by its extraordinary qualities and per
formances." ;-...-.--s ,s+ -n f',-, "
Mr.. Twain, however, not having had
much experiences in farming, thought
best to place it in the hands of some re-
fdence, and publishes heaps of testimo-
malls. We give specimen from Mr..
John Smith, a respectable butcher,
whose reputation for veracity is so wei
known. He says. .a.g,.tl- Hgr. 10.
~ am, perfectly satisfied, with the
Early Sumner. The pound that 1 puri
chased of you will do me-. In fact it
has already done me, so that shall not
want any more The day after / planted
them my swine made q raid on the
patch, and I supposed i had lost my
crop You may imagine my disap-
pointment, when the foremost hog, af.
ter. .briiskIIy. opening the first hill, sud-
denly dropped the slice of Summers he
had found there, and with an express
sion of disgust and mort tifcation, walked
off on his ear, sadder and wiser
hog, followed by the remainder of the
drove. My hogs. usually range on my
potato crop and a hog-proof potato has
long been my hope. / hailed the Stun
ner with enthusiasm as being the thing
for poorly fenced fields"
DR.. Jones, the celebrated physician,
also gives the following testimony: %
Having no ground Of my own, u
planted pound of the Early Summers
IN the nacadamized road, opposite my
residence. One of my neighbors re-
commended an application Of plaster, as
he thought the road had beenH summer
followed too much to raise crops with
out stimulant as this was my FIRST ex-
perience in agriculture, acted upon his
suggestion, and applied one of Alcocl's
porous plasters to each hill. The result
was amazing. On the lst day of July I
had ten bushels of Buckeyes; July I'd
one hundred bushels of Pinkeyes July
4th, pair of black eyes July 9th,
twins July 7th, had to dig my potatoes
or give bond to keep the peace. ~ 30
20 Accordingly hired a couple of
Irishmen, sunk q shaft in my front
yard, tunneled under the road, and
soon struck magnificent vein of pota-
toes i shall never know how many
bushels there were, for a rumor got
abroad that there was an lirruption of
predatory Fenians. Before the next
mornings sun burst, the last potato had
disappeared, and 1 was ruined."fi 49, =,