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Show SELECTED. A WoNDERFuL rOTATO. Mrtrk Twain has been visiting Mr. Beecher s fUrin, Greeley's farm, aud the (arms of many of our leading citv f. nuers, so that he has fallen coinpletelv in love with the business, and especially with that part of it which raises the wonderful new seedlings Lie starts his ''agricultural" line by tne an nounceujent ol a new potato. He thus tells its origin: ' I obtained it by crossing the yam of i he tropies with the Canada thistle; and by carefully selecting and culti vh ting the best specimens for seasons, L have secured a product that perrua nently combines the earliet of the former with the endurance of the latter; lat-ter; in other words my new potato is a rare combination ot (-peed and bottom, and it wiil do to bet on. 1 have christened chris-tened it the 'Early Stunner,' a name suggested by its extraordinary qualities and pi rforinances." Mr. Twain, however, not having much experience in farming, thought it best to place the thing in the hands of some reliable nieu in whom the public had confidenoi'-, and publishes heaps of testimonials. We give a specimen from Jolin Smith, resprcta. ble butcher, whose reputation for veracity ver-acity is so well known. He says : "I am perfectly satis-fied with the 'Early Stuuner.' The pound that I puicha.-ed of you will do tue. In fa 't it has already done nie, so that I sh;ill nut want to buy any more. The day after I planted them my swine made a raid on the patch, and I supposed I had lost my crop You may imagine my disappointment when I saw the foremost hog, after gieedily opening the first 1 1 ill. suddenly drop the .-lice of 'Siunner' which he. found there, and with an expression of disgust and mor-tifica mor-tifica ion, 'walk off on his ear,' 'a sadder sad-der and wiser hog,' followed by the re uiainder of the diove. My hogs usu a.ly range my putato crop, and a hog proof potato has long been my hope, i hail the 'Stunner' with enthusiasm, as being jut the thing lor poorly fenced fields." Dr. Jones, the celebrated physician, also gives the following testimony : "Having no land of my own, I planted a pound ot 'Kariy Stunners' in the iijacadamizrd road, opposite to my residence. One of my neighbots rec ouiniended an application of plaster, as lie thought the road had been 'summer 'sum-mer fallered' too much to raise crops withmu a stimulant; and as this wa--my first experience in agi iculture, I acted upon his suggestion, and applied one of Alcock's porous piasters to each bill; the result was amazing On the first of July I had 1U0 "bushels of buckeyes ; July 2d 1U0 bu.-hels of pinkeyes; July Oil), delirium tremens ; Juy 6th, twins; Juy 7th, had to dig my potatoes or give bonds to keep the pi ace. Accordingly 1 hired a couple of irishmen, sunk a shaft in my front ' yaid, tuuneled under the . road,-and soon st' uck a magnificent vein ot )o t a toes. .1 shall never know how many bushels there were, for a rumor got abroad that i had opened a potato mine, and that night there was an lr ruption of predatory Fenians. Beiore the next morning's sun burst, the la-t potato had di.-apreared and 1 was ru- ined." yir lork p ifirr. |