The North Carolinian

Potato Rot in New Jersey will this year, beyond all question, greatly diminish the crop. The damage done by this disease is increasing every year, and fears are entertained by well informed cultivators and vegetable physiologists, that we shall lose the vegetable altogether unless some remedy is found. This would, indeed, be a great public calamity. The annual product of the potato crop in good seasons, may be estimated at 15,000,000 bushels, which yield to the growers, at an average price of 20 cents per bushel, the sum of $3,000,000—an immense amount of productive value for a nation to lose, especially so—as there is not a plant in the whole catalogue of productions that could possibly indemnify us. The most popular theory ascribes the disease to fungi or parasitical influences. This position is adopted by the principal vegetable physiologists of Great Britain, France, and the United States, and most of the directions published in agricultural papers, are given with reference to this fact.—New York True Sun.