Tar On Potatoes

■A. B. Dickinson slateu, at a rneutinij ot the JNew i onc State Agncnltural Society, t h n t his practice with tho potato was to selest out the heaviest, as the bost to wilhstuiul the blight. He tested hia pota toes by putting tbetn in very strong brine. Those that wcro tho heaviest were the best to grow. He eut his potatoes into pioces of two eyes in each. He also ítated that he had not plantod er soivn any kind of seed for ten years witliot a coating of tar, and in preparing his potatoes for plantío? he dissolved one pint of tar jn threo pails ot boiling water, and added foup paild of water afterwards'. Tbis solalifin he oitber poured over his sceij notatoes, so that each got a coating, or the pntatocs were dippüd in it and then aprinkled with piaster. Ho statfül tiiat lio ibrmerly had no trouble in faising five hundred bushels per acre, but of lüte ho cfiild not do tbis. Thougb one year' he had raiséd at the raio of four hundred and fifty buehcls per acre, yct he sehlun acr;:ri d abovo tbree