METEOROLOGICAL TABLE. CINCINNATI, DECEMBER, 1852. THERMOM 130 5 8 33 49 9 36 45 10 29 42 1123 34 12 27 38 13 34 35 14 24 37 15 24 43 16 43 49 17 31 34 18 27 40 19 40 53 20 34 64 21 33 36 22 30 37 23 44 56 24 43 60 25 36 45 26 29 38 27 37 56 fog, var.. cloudy variable rain do. cloudy. fog, var.. variable do. snow cloudy clear rain clear do. do. cloudy do. fog, cl'dy rain cl'dy, rain cloudy. clear cloudy. do..... clear 28 26 30 29 23 38 30 38 47 rain 31 44 51 do. Sunrise. Noon. Sunset. RAIN. SNOW. 1 Calm. 2 Calm hazy. 3 Calm hazy; light NW. fog, clear · do. clear do. ... clear 4 Calm; light W. and SW.; calm. do. 5 Calm; light SW. [at night. 6 Light SW. and S. rain rain [brisk W.; squally .98 7 Light S.; brisk S.; high S. and SW.; •12 8 Light S.; calm at eve. 9 Light S. E.; brisk W.; light W. *23 clear 10 Light W. *65 11 Light W. 13 Brisk W.; light W. 14 Calm; light SW.; hazy; light NE. 15 Light NE, hazy calm. 45 16 Light SE.; squally at night. 17 High SW. 18 Light W. and SW. and S.; calm. 19 Light S.: brisk S., light S. 20 Light S and SW.; light NW. 21 Light N. 22 Light NE.; calm at eve. 23 Light SE.; heavy thunder. [var.; calm. 24 Light S.; brisk SW.; high NW.; light 25 Calm; light NE.; calm. 26 Light W. and SW. and W.; calm. 27 Light SE.; brisk SE. & S.; high at times. 28 High SW. and W.; light at eve. 29 Calm; light SW. 30 Light S. 31 Light S.; calm; light W. Variable-sun visible, 8 15 8 31 Rain and snow water, inches, 9.84 45 WHEN at Utica, last September, attending the state fair, one of the most interesting objects in the extensive tent devoted to regetables, was the collection of healthful, handsome tubers of this important esculent, which has suffered so much from the effects of disease in past years, as to have attracted the attention of some of the best minds of eur country. Among the many essays which have appeared, none have furnished more valuable practical information, than the report of a committee appointed to examine the experiments of Mr. C. E. GOODRICH, with additional remarks and explanations by that gentleman himself. It appears in the valuable Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society, page 365, and has also been received in pamphlet form through the kindness of the author. Mr. G. assumes certain propositions previously presented, and gives the following valuable information: 1. The immediate cause of the potato disease, is sudden alterations of weather, occurring at critical periods in the growth of the plant. 2. The remote cause is the exhausted energy of nearly the whole species cultivated in Europe and the United States. Since the first conception of these sentiments in 1846, to the present hour, they have been almost constantly before my mind, while engaged in the cultivation of a market garden of from fifteen to twenty acres, embracing from three to six acres of potatos annually. Other theories of disease have been before my mind, but continued and varied obsertrines of these two original propositions, as well as to most of the illustrations by which they were originally enforced. I have noticed numerous facts and sentiments, leading in the direction of these propositions, and published as new during the last two or three years, all of which are noticed and discussed in the first two essays above noticed. It is essays, but merely to state new facts and not my wish to go over the ground of those illustrations bearing on the same great points, and usually corroborative of them. vation constrains me to adhere to the doc |