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oLD DOMINION STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

NJ y, HAVANA AND MEXICAN MAIL ). 4 LINE
N. steamers pier s North River 1T 81 T.. W.
FOR HAVANA DIRECT AND VERA CRUZ,
calling ~ Progreso. Campeachy and frontera
CITY OF VERA CRUZ December ~
CITY OF WASHINGTON nIasana only. Thursday Dee -
leave New orleans Dec Is Tor Vera
Cruz via Matamoros rampico, Tuxpa, connecting with
amer for Havana. New York and above ports
y. ALEXANDRA A SONS, 81 and SO Broadway.
NEW YORK AND HAVANA DIRECT NAIL LINE
~ These hrst class steamships will sail ut j. NJ from
pier rs North River foot 81 Cedar 81 for Havana direct
steamer SANTIAGO DE cUBA...... Wednesday. Dee IL
For freight aud passage having unsurpassed aecomoda
ttons, apply
WILLIAM y. CLYDE co, No Bowling Gresn.
MCCLELLAN LULlNG n co, Agents In Havana
HALIFAX, n s., AND sr JOHNS. N r.. CROMWELL
Enthusiastically leave as follows, from pier 10 North
Kiver.-
CVhilsS tuesday, December
AlhAMBhA ......*...4+., 44..fridas. December "a
Foe passage (hsyiBg excellent accominodations
freight apply 20 CLARK SEAMAN. - West st.
NEW YORK AND CUBA NAIL !. n LINE FOR
~ HAVANA DIRECT
FROM piar ~ East River, At = y. VI,
= sAkAf0,iA new. Wednesday December II
Tickets issued also for VERA Cruz aud WEsT INDIA
ISLANDS ~ connection With French aud English steam
JAMES Il WARD A 60, Ii3 Wall st.
NEW ORLEANS DItECf-fuE CROMWELL. LIN.
~ steamship NEW DItLEANS viii leave Saturday. DEE
surance effected AZ hall per cent open policy.
Ihfough bills ~ ladinx Mobile and principal
ppintn tho Mississippi river. For fsght passage
pE W CLARK SEAMAN ~ cot a.
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METROPOLITAN
wi ELEVATED RAILWAY.


WI ELEVATED RAILWAY.
OPEN FROM 5 30 A. NJ. TO IL r. VI.
RECTOR sT.-Nearest point for Wall street ferry and
connects with ears for South ferry,
CORTLAND ST.-Nearesi point for Jersey City AID
Communipaw ferries
PARK fLAcE-Nearest point for Post Office. City Hall
and Barclay street ferry to Hoboken.
CHAMBERS sT-Nearest point to Pavonis and Erie
Railway ferry
FRANKLIN ST
GRAND ST-Nearest point for Desbrosses street ferry to
Jersey City and with for and East
Grand street ferries
BLEECKER sT-Connects with cars for east and west.
9Th ST-Nearest point for Christopher street ferry
Hoboken connecting with for Christopher and East
Tenth street ferries.
IfTH sT-Nearest point to Union Square Wallacks and
Lyceum theatres Academy of Music irving and Tsmmany
halls connecting with for East Twenty third and
Thirty fourth street ferries
23D sT-Nearest point to Booths st. James and Park
Temple and Twenty third street ferry Jersey City
Theatres; Aquarium and San Francisco Minstres
connecting with for Weehawken ferry.
AID ST.-Connects with New York Transfer Companys
cabs tor Grand Central Depot
JOTH ST.
5sTH ST.-Nearest point for Central Park.
connec ting with cal OF Belt Line Railroad.
FORa UPTOWN TRAINS take side stations
FOR DOWNTOWN TRAINS take west side stations
FARE, 10 CENTS
except the hours of 80 80 A. NJ and to
l.. NJ, when the fare is cents,
WIN. X. GARRISON, President
w. upAr r,,,t.n
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CoAsTwrsE STEAMSHIPS.


Affoa wKsf r IN6IKs AND SOUTH AMERICA
v,. calling a. the 4 following ling ports1sv1
Prince Aux ca;es and Jsems IN iayti santa M"rlaa
savana, cartiagena aud Aspinwail. in Colombia, aud
Regular for,nis,y sangs pier No North Rivor
FOX msSTI COLOMBIA, snEyrowx ssyc,, lsrllNus
or PANAMA y AsD A s2HSa sAc'''c rohrs'
:
Superior 1'' class So Agents
FLoRI6PNA bIRHT AMP S 81 LINE
LOWEST KHTTs of Fv FREIdl iTS PASSAGE
81 s SArJE6Ay ssssssf 49, ,ar
Only line issuing through tickets and bills Of ladng all
Flint River and Branswick. Ca Insurance oaaha psr
eeF s 81 as s"ea on pier Of ar and
sage rates apply to No. III @ y sohs up Stairs
L MoRGAS,s LouisIANA AND TExAs RAILROAD
steamship team spk GhNnhhL o @nrfSfy
V" e.: Ssi s..iDs.s
at3p NJ taking freight for New Orleans Mobile and all
and sTss 'sss T 70 s''T.s ss se
aa sns
pier 81 North River
RERMupA, WEST INDIES AND VENEZUELA
For s = sssu;hip GAMMA Dsss%SsTia
PtEeTo cABELlo and cu RAcoA IS. hADJI. Decem,
Der - Msns At poRss ss,sfnnss r. c,A and HAR
BADos IS fLHsBokoGGHH December qH H. ana 0A"
f9 is'5St rHd EreSS Agents 20 Broadway
LEVE 4 ALDEN, 27l Broadway.
TEXAS LINE FOR GALVESTON. TOUCHING AT
Ney s.rsyng NJ United STATE. Marho s.aams
from pier 20 East River Saturday December a. at W.
on Ih h bills Of sdng given 70 and all points
ton and and the Galveston Harrisburg and San
IN ss %SLoRY
pier ~ East River
SAvANNAH AND FLORIDA.
GATE GiNy CITY Cap. Dasses. "Wednesday, Dec II
- From pier 3 ssrs% %r River At F91s Ds'
and Gulf R.iroad. Georsa and Florda sieambsa, Com
nd -tS ws hs se~ and S r SoSa
K As As ss..a~ sas G. 9seH 81. Co srs css
FEEoE:IpaA DIRECT sEsTEAaEEs LEAVE PIER r; 20
Fla touching 81 Brunswick and Port Royal steamer
on
rates glyeS to AZ points in the South and Southwest tn
co5i S 'ss Ess East River
Fl rs SAsq ASD II a
From ST. s,s4a,hp sEGEEr pses%ss, ~ q
IDA and NASSAU. aURRAY, FERRIS ! Co, - south !.
TRAVELLERS GUIDE.
( LBANY BoATs-PEoPLE's LINE. LEAVE PIER
kA4i. \. R., daily, except Sunday, at q T. n.
A CITIZENS LINE TROY BOATS LEAVE PIER 40
A.North River Leroy St daily except Saturday. at6PM
DOSTON-vIA FALL. RIVER LINE: MAGNIFICENT
Disclaimers BRISTOL and PROVIDENCE leave pier -
North River daily sundays excepted, ut 80 u full
leave sreslyn va AZ @ iFpX sA'' '"''
L,OR BOSTON AND ALL POINTS EAST
er. MAssacnnsErrs and RHODE isIANb from pisr
80 n r. foot Jay st, at 80 r. NJ Sundays excepted.
PROVIDENCE LINE freight only daily Except Sundsys
fro % n T. foot Of VI 81 A Z. NJ
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AN ASTOUNDING STORY.

THE HUSBAND OF THE MAN MIDWIFE OF GEN.
ERAL CLUSTERS OLD COMMAND" COMMITS
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A SUPERIOR CORNER LIQUOR STORE. FULLY
licensed cheap rent. be purchased applied
for this day. good re~sons 2ol broadway, room -.
4 LIST OF FIRST CLASS SAMPLE AND LIQUOR
"A Stores. groceries, Manufacturing interests &c
a War
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COAsTwIsE sTEAMsHIPs.

-.
pAclFic MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY
L Pier foot q Canal st. North River.
steamship CRESCENT CITY. "Wednesday, December H.
connecting Panam. and Central America
For san Francisco via Is.hmus Of Panama.
saa
From san Fraaei.eo for o Japan and China
r CRY anS
Sss e. TO- ssR River aaa 70
apply At eompanys ticket Office No 257 broadway
UNITED sJ NATE s AR sHAFII LINE
for 81 Thomas. Para, Pernambuco. Bahia and Rio dc
connecting Thomas With German steamers for Porto
The FIRST class iron stesnship CITY or RIO DE
JAsEIKo Captain Weir viii sail Tor the above ports
Positively freight received after I'd Freight b
Freight At low rates taken for the above ports
Freight received At all times at Roberts dock Brooklyn.
Ing insurance can effect same under our policy
q ii. MiLL6RY co, Agents Office pier 20 4. r.
PorcLAn sA aSiIRE fos AID FLORIDA
Avoid danger snd SEA INCIDENT 70 ocean travel
and Florida Inland Steamboat Company. statcrooms
''''e LEvE 4 ALDEN General Northern Agents
nLD DOMINION STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
o,,e sailing from pier q North gye,
M Win ali ao oa for e souTa s6 NJ
and WEST; also with steamers for SEWBERSE aud
WASHINGTON, y. &. steamers tor LEWEs DEL. and
REllOBofH BEACH and connecting railroads, Tues
DAYS aud FRIDAYS, at Y. VI.
Through passenger tickets and bills of lading all
points a. . .s. @.ar sa, Tor s9rle AZ I,
General office, No 1871 Greenwich 81
y. l. NcCREADy. President.
rIExAs LINE FOR GALVESTON TOUCHING AT
Key west-ihe steamer CRY or SAN ANTONIO, Cap.
tain Pennington will sail from por "a East River Satur
December a. att T. NJ
Through bills 81 adng given Houston and all points
the International aud Great Northern Galveston ous
and Henderson aud the Galveston Harrisburg
Antonio railroads.
For freight passage and general information apply to
y. IA. MALLORY n co. Agents
49, 70
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A FINELY LOCATED OYSTER AND CHoP HOUSE.
Apsying handsomely good reasons for selling
LLOyDs, Warrcn.
A MEAT MARKET FOR SALE CHRAp-BAKERIEs
~ Groccries Restaurants, Hotels Liquor stores Cigar
STORES MITCHELL, 10 Cedar.
A STOCK or NEW sAFEs--sTEEL DOOR FRAMES:
Anvil be in store next week present stock Of and
second hand safes offered very low prices
FRoTHiNGHAM EMORY, ~ ycscy ST.
LUNCH COUNTER IN A FIRST CLASS DOWN.
itown vino and sample room best rcssons for selling
out; bargain; $500. MALONE, Murray st.
4 FIRST CLASS MILLINERY STORE on BROAD.
Away stock Fixtures and Good H. ia working order.
terms low. Address MILLiNER. Herald Office
4 CASH GROCERY STORE, UP TOWN FOR SALE.
AcheaD; doing good trade best for selling
N. d ~, station g.
A DRY GOODS FANCY GOODS AND HOSIERY
iBusinsss for sale. 2sp Smith IT., Brooklyn
nRUG FIXTURES AND STOCK FOR sALE-TRE.
Dmendous sacrifice lat once: NO humbup
SCHAfNWAi.D III West 3sth.
L'oR sALE-A MILK ROUTE IN NEW YORK AP.
Il ply 49, Hicks st., Brooklyn.
Lrog sALE-A FIRST CLASS CORNER IIoCoR
u store on Let av. Call on SCHWARTZ BROTHERS. AL
East iJh u
L'oR sALE-THE CORNER LIQUOR STORE NO 2ls
Il nth Az. No agents
L,oR sALE-BrTTgR BUSINESS; EXCELLENT Io
capital spfo 10th av, corner 10th st.
GROCERY STORE FOR SALE IN BROoKI.YN-
uNicely located Fulton st. cheap rent. doing good
business must BE- sold this week Of
quire IaDPark place.
OYSTER AND cHOP nOusE-DOwN rowN. DAY
Otra.e. rent low, easy terms. price 49, 2t4
Herald tfce.
DESTArRANT DAY TABLE GOOD BUSINESS 10.
JAeati0nt reasonable rent, owner retiring, cheap J.
: JONES. =, Gsilsrs 81
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FOR SALE.

4 GO0D CORNER LIQUOR STORE MAR BROAD
y way doing good trade long lease; cheap r~nt
lshcd is years; owner retiring Apply 2si Broadws ~
*.
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4 sPLESDIDLY FURNISHED FLAT STRICTLY
hhrss class in every particular - East 18th Janitor
UNFINISHED FRONT AND BACK ROOMS: ALSO
l.hAll Rooms. second aocr IA East 18th ST. Tiff
tMnyis
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fT'EXAS LINE FOR GALVESTON. TOUCHING AT
Key West carrying The United States MaLrhe
CITY OF san ANTONIO. CAPTAIN Pennington, will sail
from pier 20 East River Saturday December H. at W.
Through bills of lading given 10 Houston and all points
the International and Great Northern Galveston Hous
and Henderson, and the Galveston Harrisburg and San
Antonio railroads
For freight passage and general information apply to
C. II. MALLORY co, Agents,
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DERMUDA WEST INDIES AND VENEZUELA
- Quebec and Gulf Ports Steamship Company.
For BERMuD steamship GAMMA, December 10
For ST. JOHNS. r. r. ST THOMAS LAGUAYRA
PUERTO CABELIO and GU RACOA, SIS. HADJI, Decem
Der IL calling at Ponce rcturnngD
For ANTIGUA MARTINIQUE. ST. LUCIA and BAR
BAD0S, IS FLAMBOROUGH. December IL.
For freight and passage apply
A f. UCTERBRIDGE 4 co, Agents, 20 Broadway.
Z. q. DE GARMENDIA Is Broadway.
LENE ALDEN, III Broadway
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FURNISHED ROOMS AND APARTMENT
TO LET.

A SECOND PLOOI-SEATLY FURNISHED ROOM,
n price reasonable, private family o75 Lexington
9Th
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il SAVANNAH AND FLORIDA
Avoid danger and sickness incident
by purchasing through tickets to Florida via the
aud Florida Inland Steamboat Company Statcroous
Gu red III Broadway.
The Portland daily press., 1878-05-14
For Sale i'm GOrham Village.

A 1 1-2 story cottage house. and large stable, on
"A one of the best locations on the sunny side OF
South street. House contains 10 rooms, every thing
convenient good water, SPLENDID one half acre
garden, fruit trees. grapes, strawberry bed Within
three minutes walk of the depot school, church, and
will be sold tor less than value, if sold Immediately
for cash. Apply to j. l.. Curtis on the premises, or
LEWIS MCCLELLAN. County Treasurer, Portland.
ape diff
The Portland daily press., 1878-05-14
How to Utilize Table Refuse,

A correspondent of the American Poultra
Yard describes his method as follows:
First, proper feeding pail is an absolute
necessity to successfully prepare the refuse ol
the table and kitchen to make 1t proper food
for fowls. Get hardwood pail, or ask your
grocer for hardwood butter firkin shaped
like pail. Cut board to fit into the chine
hrmly on the whole bottom of the pail, and
thick enough to project an eigh lh of an inch
or more beyond the ends of the slaves, so that
tne pail may rest firmly on the bottom instead
I pl on tne ends of the slaves. Fasten in place
py leW nails driven through the slaves into
tnis laise bottom, which may be of pine as it
only 10 keep from bursting out the bottom of
the pali by chopplng in it. If you cannot get
a HARDWOOD pan, put another false bottom of
hardwood lnside OF pine pail, nicely fitted
ana secured IKE Inc under one. Grind the
edge OF common spade sharp, and you have
an admirable chopping knife, and will be sur
prised to see how quickly you can chop fine
all scraps and waste of every kind, cooked or
raw vegetables, chicken bones, and every-
thing except beef, pork or mutton bones
these save by themselves, and put into stock
soup kettle, with all pieces of raw meat, or
cheap meat from the market, and keep it on
the Kitchen stove as much of the day as you
can induce your ''better half' to let it remain
Alter boiling several days some of these large
pones Will chop up ine with the other waste,
and can be used as fast as they become soft.
Chop up the waste each morning, adding meal
and shorts enough for breakfast for the
hock, scald the whole with the soup from the
STOCK Kettle, adding once each week one OF
the following articles, for each 25 hens one
spoonful pepper, six onions, one-haf pint
charcoal, one spoonful pure ginger and two
spoonfuls of sulphur, etc. The above will
produce breakfast that will make your poul-
Try house and its occupants as lively and mus
ical as first class opera house, and its effect
upon the egg-basket will be visible to the ma
ked eye, and may gain for your soup kettle
more time on the kitchen stove.
The Portland daily press., 1878-05-14
STEAMERS.
a L T. a N LIN E.
SHORTEST OCEAN VOYAGE,
speed, Comfort and Safety Combined.

,4E~I The lrst-class iron mail steam
->AfSdA-tA ers of this line sail from HI Halifax
R1Hl tAFAHKSM every Saturday a. m. for
slsssAsz4HIsNsAAsS Liverpool Il via Londonderry
N:<=zsEsSzzS The Baltimore Mail Line
sail from Halifax every alternate Tuesday for
Liverpool via Queenstown.
, The advanced easterly position of Halifax ordinar-
lily reduces the actual sea voyage by this line to
about seven days.
T1e Pullman Train leaving Portland on Maine
Centraii T. 4. on Thursdays at II As O'Clock p. M
Is que at halifax on Saturdays at 9.15 O'Clock
Cabin Passengers $50, $40 and $50 gold or its
eqnlvalept: Steerage $2S currency. Return and
Prepaid Tickets at reduced rates to and from all
parts Of Europe.
:, Apply to j. e; FARMER, General Agent for New
England, No. India Street, Portland Me,
GsIght sterling Check ks issued in sums
10 suit for 6 and upwards.
febl2 div
The Portland daily press., 1878-05-14
Reasons Why All Should Use the
Reactj0nary Health Lift.
ong appeals to the common sense

1t makes strong appeals to the common sense
every man or woman in every walk of life.
furnishes an exercise which may and should be in
troduced into every house; which may be practced
at all seasons in all kinds of weather, by persons of
both sexes. all ages, and degrees of strength or
much in praise Of it, and no one can afford to do
without it. All who investigate thoroughly use it,
and consider it invaluable and indispensable 1t Is
the safest, simplest, cheapest and most efficient
medicine ever discovered. No claim is set up for it
which is unscieDtific or impractcabe.
General-It Is the best of rest. 1t is perfectly
safe. No harm ever came from its use. 1t strains
no portion OF the system. 1t directs the vital forces
to the affected parts. By its the health is easily
maintained. The purchase of KeactIonary Litter
is the best kind of economy. The convenience of
having one in the house is very great
Mind and Brain. 1t invgorates and
strengthens the brain, and renders it more active
and efficient in all its operations.
sieep.-It is the simplest and safest narcotic 1t
IS the most natural and probably the best means of
inducing sound and refreshing sleep.
Nerves.-It is a wonderful tonic TO the whole
nervous system. 1t is most eficaeious remedy in
paralysis, if ta,ken in time.
Lungs, Throat and Voice. 1t gives special
expansion and greater mobility to the chest; en-
tlon, and brings the voice fully under control
AS preventive and cure of lung diseases it has no
equal. ~ ~
Exercise-Itis is the most perfect exercise for man
or woman, furnishing the best form of physical
culture and development in the safest, easiest
most thorough and expeditions manner. 1t is
better than the gymnasium and free from its
than boating, and infinitely better than drugs in a
majority of chronic diseases. 1t rounds and hardens
the muscles, and educates them into ever ready
Ialthtul and ef1c1ent servants of the will.
The Portland daily press., 1878-05-14
POETRY.
To the DandeliOn.
BT JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way,
FriDging the dusty road with harmless gold,
First pledge OF blithesome May,
Which children pluck, and iul OF pride uphold.
High.hearted buccaneers, o'erJoyed that they
An Eldorsdo in the grass have found,
Which not the rich earth's ample round
May match in wealth, thou art more dear to me
Than all the prouder summer blooms may be.
Gold such as thine ns'er drew the Spanish PROV
Through the prlmeval hush of Indian seas,
Nor wrinked the lean brow
Ofage, TO rob the lovers heart of ease:
IT'S the Springs largess which she scatters now,
To rich and poor alike, with lavish hand,
Though most hearts never understand
10 take 1t at Gods value, but pass by
Inc offeIed wealth with unrewarded eye.
Thou art my tropics and mine Italy;
To look at thee uniocks warmer cline;
The eyes thou givest me
Are in the heart and heed not space or time;
Not in mia june the golden-curassed bee
Feels more summer-like warm ravishment
In the white lily's breezy tent,
His fraerant Sybaris, than L. when first
From the dark green thy yellow circles burst.
Then think of deep shadows on the grass,
Of meadows where in sun the cattle Craze,
Where, as the breezes pass,
The cleaning rushes lean thousand ways
OF e.ves that slumber in a cloudy mass
Or whiten in the wind of waters blue
That from the distance sparkle through
Some woodland gap, and of sky above,
Where one white cloud like stray lambdoth move
My childhood's earliest thoughts are linked will
thee;
The sight of thee calls back the robins song
Who. from the dark old tree
Beside the door, sang clearly all day long
And L. secure in childish piety,
Listened as if heard an angel sing
With news from heaven, which he could bring
Fresh every day to my untainted ears
When birds aud flowers and were happy peers
How like prodigal doth nature seem,
When thou, for all thy gold, so common art!
Thou teachest me to deem
More sacredly Of every human heart,
Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam
VI heaven, and could some wondrous secret snow,
Did we but pay the love we owe
And with child's undoubting wisdom look
On all these living pages of Gods book.
The Portland daily press., 1878-05-14
AGRICULTURAL.
HifIing Potatoes


Much has been published within a few
years on the subject of hilling potatoes, and
by some the flat-culture system has been
recommended. At one time the arguments
brought out in its favor were so clear that
experimental on the system, and the result
was very lean harvest of small potatoes. /
have no doubt, no Sever, of the sincerity of
those who recommend that mode of culture,
which probably has been successful under
the circumstances by which they were fa-
vored. But in farming, as in medicine, there
are no fixed and positive rules of practice
In medicine, the constitution, habits and all
other peculiarities are to be understood in
order to apply safe and efficient remedies.
so In farming, the nature and quality OF
soil, and other conditions, must be understood
In order to insure successful practice. When
the potato rot first appeared in this country,
thirty five years ago, it was soon discovered
that the vines were first attacked on low
grounds, subject to fogs, and that the disease
was worst on stiff, clammy soils, enriched by
fermentlng manureS. This induced farmers TO
plant on lands high and dry, (if the soil was
very sandy, so much the better), and to use
manures cooling in their nature The result
was saving of the crop under such manage
ment; while where the older system of plant
ing lower fields of more compact soil, and
feeding with heating manures, was contn-
ued failure from rot was the general conse-
quence.
Here was happy variation of results
brought about by variation of culture, and
we have no reason to suppose but that fiat
culture OF potatoes, under some crcum-
stances, may be successful. Admitting this
to be so, we should select sandy or very por-
GUS land as the field on which to try this
mode of culture; while on tenacious, clay
ey soil, or stiff, lOamy one, that requires
much working to keep it in friable condi-
tion, 1 should continue the old system of
piowlng out, pulverizlng the soil and hillipg
up. for the following reason: Where such
soils are fiat-cultured, they will become com.
pact by the rains and by the atmosphere, so
that they become impermeable to the influ-
ence OF rain and air-two valuable elements
OF growth-consequent the size OF the po-
tato is diminished, and its quality impaired,
by its being deprived of two essentials of
healthy growth.
Ireland, with soil moistened by the saline
breezes OF the sea, is famous for potato grow
ing; and her stalwart sons who come to
America, are uniformly successful in its cul-
ture here, and often raise fine crops of pota-
toes under most unfavorable circumstances.
What their practice may be in other localities,
l am not informed; but here, where they
form numerous class, their uniform prac-
tice is to hill largely, or if they plant in drills,
to bring the earth into ridges along the grow
ing crop, and their crops are large.
Just when to form the hill is an important
consideration in securing crop, and is better
done after rain than when the ground is
very dry; for by hoeing in moisture, supply
is secured to counteract the effect of dry
weather.-Cor. Country Gentleman.