Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-18
Potato Culture.

AT a late meeting of the Oshkosh
horticultural Society there was a dis
cussion on Potato Planting and Culture,
mainly confined to the experience of E..
w. Sanders, whom Secretary HOLE pro-
nounces King of the Potato Growers of
Winnebago County. By slight changes
we condense the report SO as to give his
viewssin-a connected manner.
For the last five years l have raised
and experimental on potatoes, and I
find that early potatoes need much
more manur to enrich the soil than
later varieties. 1 would prefer a new
sod soil, broken the previous year for
this crop, provided the soil is in good
condition ; our later seedlings require
much less seed than the older varieties,
andI can raise more potatoes by cutting
to single eyes, and planting one in a
place-planted in drills about Is inches
in the drills in rows about 31-2 feet. If
in hills, no more than 2 eyes-hills
about, 3 feet to- II each way. I think
the drill system is the best. 1 adopt it
altogether.
Ashes for -potatoes1 never tried. I
have planted potatoes four years in sue
cession on the same ground, keeping
up the, strength of the soil with well
rotted manure +; have been troubled the
past year with the white grub. I have
used lime, and have found it a benefit
on, the black soil, but in the light
clay soil | have discovered no beneficial
effects. "ei@ s12" " z
After planting 1 usually run the Gull
tivator first, then hoe around the plants
to, destroy any. grass, near the young
shoots, follow this up with the cultiva-
tor, and wind up with the shovel plow,
and T do not throw thoAoorthk uarvr hinh
round the potatoes. Iawould not earth
up potatoes of any variety very high. I
would rather not plant potatoes on low
ground.
In marking u 8 a common light cross
pillow. 1 pillow as deep as possible.
DE- - u
\ AN ANEcDoTE OF LORD BRoueHAM's
CHILDHooD.-The pupils play-hours at
home were devoted in part to playing
at judge and jury, in which game he
opened the case, defended the prisoner,
examined the witnesses and passed
judgment. The legal idea was made to
serve his purpose on another occasion,
when the impulsive boyish impertinence
displayed was elevated to the dignity of
prophecy. A party of children, of
whom Henry ,Brougham was one, were
on their way in a hackney-coach to a
Jill Al lh01I pTORr6SS was
stopped at a toll-bar by the inability to
collect sixpence among them to pay the
toll. The gate-keeper was memorable.
The children were in despair, but up
suddenly jumped young Henry, who
said gravely to the to~ll-collector, "Oh,
you will surely let us pass, for l am the
Lord Chancellor Tt is a singular
fact, recorded by Brougham himself,
that when he was in after life offered
the CHARACTERISTIC his mother exercised
her self-control and self-denial in oppos-
ing, by her circumstances and earnest
advice, her sons acceptance of the
Office. He may himself have told his
well-loved daughter the story of his try
ing, when a child, to pass himself off as
the Lord Chancellor in order to get
through a turnpike toll free. If SO, al
whether so or not, the young girl or
ways looked, as IN a certainty, for her
fathers elevation to that dignity. When
she was but seven years old, she used to
say: "Papa will be Lord Chancellor
you'll see that:' Her father used to
tell it of her with great glee. Some
one would ask her questions regarding
other dignities, and the persons likely
| to obtain them. To such inquiries she
would answer, ~ do not know; but ]
am sure that papa will be Lord Chan.
cellor.''sgeIt has been conjectured that
when the dignity was offered to him his
daughters prophecy had more inhu.
ence with him than all his mothers adj
/ vice not to take upon himself the
responsibility of such an ofice.-Tengph
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