ANALYSIS OF THE POTATO.Next to the cereals, the potato is the most valuable plant for the production of human food.

The tradition that the potato is the Irish national vegetable is a hoary fallacy that needs to be exploded once and for all.

I do not, however, think, or mean to say, that potatoes alone are proper food for any human being: but I feel confident, that four ounces of meat, with as large quantity of good potatoes as would wholly take away the sensation of hunger, would afford, during twenty-four hours, more efficient nutriment than could be derived from bread in any quantity, and might be obtained at much less expense.

The common potato is the best type of non-proteid vegetable food.

The potato is a thickened stem.

The Sweet Potato is an example of this class.

Oh, the potato is a lordly fruit; drought or downpour, it grows and grows all the same.

The wolf chooses the bottom when "oats" were the object of choice, and the top when "potatoes" were the sowing.

The restaurant was scrupulously clean, the steak was good, the potatoes were mealy, the coffee wasn't bad, and there were hot biscuits and butter.

Potatoes were a new thing, nothing mystic, nothing religious; women and children could plant themearth-apples that came from foreign parts, like coffee; fine rich food, but much like swedes and mangolds.

The potatoes were evidently the luxury; and, guided by that feeling, the man who had told the strangers that they need not be afraid of being robbed, at once selected six out of the bowl, and deposited three each before Dick and Caldigate.

Potatoes are a good article of dietto be used once a daythough they are not very nutritious.

If the turnips are especially watery, one or two hot, mealy potatoes mashed with them will be an improvement.

His tastes are simple, but to him the plain, boiled, watery potato and the equally watery greens were abominations.

DESCRIPTION.The sweet potato is a native of the Malayan Archipelago, where it formerly grew wild; thence it was taken to Spain, and from Spain to England and other parts of the globe.

Potatoes are the only root crops extensively cultivated.

If their Families too are such as they are represented, tis certain they cannot be better clothed, and must be a great deal worse fed: One would think Potatoes should be all their Bread, and

Mashed potatoes, kartoffelkloesse or any kind of flour dumpling is a nice accompaniment.

In winter the cooking was done in a cabin, and sweet potatoes, dried peas and meat were the principal diet.

*** "Is the potato the saviour of the Fatherland?" asks the Deutsche Tageszeitung.

" Later on he learned that what he supposed were potatoes were only stones.

When these changes are complete, the potato becomes a loose, farinaceous mass, or "mealy."

"The potatoe is a native plant of America."Ib., p. 60.