Daily National Intelligencer

FROM THE NEW JERSEY JOURNAL

PLANTING POTATOES.

Mr. Kollock—As it is an opinion with many, that Potatoes will yield best to change the seed, and plant the largest; therefore, I made the following experiment:

Last Fall, I sent to Albany for some of the best Red Potatoes, which were very good and large; and on the 26th of April planted one row, containing 19 hills, in which I put one Potatoe in a hill larger than a goose egg, weighing in the whole 8 lbs. and put a shovel-full of fine manure in each. And when dug, the above 8 lbs. of the largest Potatoes, produced 54 lbs.

The next row I planted with cut Potatoes, of the same kind, putting five pieces in a hill, the whole of 4 lbs. weight and manured in the same manner as above. They produced 50 lbs. as did several other rows in the same patch.

And on the 15th of May, I pealed five of the largest of the above Potatoes, carefully digging out the eyes about the size of a cent, which I planted in 3 rows of 16 feet long, putting the eyes 8 or 9 inches apart, and the rows 3 feet, which contained about half a rod of ground. I produced 1 bushel & 9 quarts (weighing 78 lbs.) of good sized Potatoes: many of which weighed from 8 to 10 ounces, and but a very few small ones. This ground received no manure.

Yours, &c.

RICHARDSON GRAY.

P. S. The whole and cut Potatoes were planted in a light sandy soil, and the eyes in a damp soil; and, as the odds is so great, I think no one will hesitate to follow the plan, as it is a saving of all their Seed.

Elizabethtown, Oct. 21, 1816.