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The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Irish potatoes (search)
ign potatoes will be imported in time for next spring's planting, we have thought it would be an advantage to our readers to explain how the gentleman (a planter) who presented us the potato managed to save seed for the planting of last spring's crop. He informs us that about the first of August of last year he ploughed up the ground where the spring crop had been planted and gathered, but enough seed had been left to produce a fall crop. from which he used as late as Christmas — Early in January and not until then, he had the potatoes remaining in the ground taken up and put in a dry place. His reason for taking them up was that if they remained they would sprout prematurely and be killed by cold weather. At the usual time he planted the seed thus gathered, and raised as good a crop and as large potatoes as any of his neighbors raised. This process is worth trying, and we have thought it our duty to describe it to our readers. They will remember that the ground where the sp
The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], A New rumor. (search)
Nothing has been yet done towards rebuilding Sebastopol, and its appearance differs but slightly from its state at the end of the siege. The Ingham University of La Roy, N. Y., has conferred upon Gen. George B. McClellan, the commander of the Federal troops in Western Virginia, the Ll D. The steamer Capt. Roskell, left New York on Saturday for Liverpool, with 65 passengers. It is stated that upon the representation of Frank P. Blair, Jr., Col. has been made Brigadier-General. Alderman E. A. January, one of the oldest citizens of Montgomery, Ala., last Friday. Bapinet, the French astronomer, says that the present comet is Charles but Leverrier denies it. Dr. Wm. A Rogers, a citizen of Entaw, Ala, died last week.