THE POTATO DISEASE
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POTATO DISEASE
... POTATO DISEASE. The Council of the Royal Agricultural Society have re- ceived the following statement from Lord Portman, in refer- ence to the potato crop in Dorsetshire, viz. Bryanstone, July 31, 18-18. On the 1st of July my gardener observed the potatoes ...
THE POTATO BLIGHT
... THE POTATO BLIGHT. D UBLIN, SUNDAY EVENING.—A Belfast paper states that in the counties of Antrim and Down, where a large breadth of potatoes had been planted, some cases of blight have occurred, which leave little doubt of a recurrence of the old disease ...
THE CROPS IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE
... decayed, the owners of which do not expect to realise a single peck of sound potatoes. Instances have come under my notice of farmers offering for sale whole fields of potatoes at one halfpenny per perch. The only alternative appears to be to dig immediately ...
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN
... the physical organism of the potato itself. As an instance of the rapid progress of the disease, I will mention a case which is within my own knowledge. On last Thursday week five American flour casks full of sound potatoes were taken up. At that time ...
Varieties
... complaints respecting the reap- pearance of the potato disease. Sussex-The yield of wheat will be much below an average crop. North'Derby;hi; e -A finer sea- son altogether is not remembered. The accounts of the potato disease are not more numerous nor more alarming ...
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... AND FOREIGN CORN TRADE. The unsettled weather experienced in the early part of the week, and rumours of the spread of the potato disease, gave rise to a great deal of uneasiness in regard to the future, and predictions of scarcity and high prices were ...
-------------.--THE ENGLISH REGiy.Vl DONUM
... tracks across the potatoes with their feet quite solid, and there the potatoes are quite sound, while the others are very badly diseased.—II. liilott. STORING POTATOES.—I find from past experience that the best plan is to leave the potatoes undisturbed in ...
BRISTOL
... and 21st inst. was Very boisterous with rain and high winds. The potato disease is making its appearance this year again, but not so extensive as the past years, and as yet the potatoes promise abundantly, however they will be towards the time of digging; ...
HAVERFORDWEST
... The prices as follow Beef, (jd. to 7d. per lty. Mutton, 7d. to Od. Veal, 6d. to Od. Lamb] 7d. to Od. new Potatoes, Is. 7d. per quarter; old Potatoes Is. 7d! per quar. green Peas, Is. per peck; ditto, Gooseberries, 2d, per qaart Wineberries, 3d. per ditto; ...
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... turned right arid left on the potatoes,; thus securing them from the frost, and when the •Vsreather.was likely to be severe, he would cover over with straw (fern is best) such space as he thought would be wanted, in order to render the digging of them ...
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... trilling; and the potatoes remained sound to the last, it is proper, however, to add that the lime appeared to impair the culinary quality of the potatoes, so as to make .them less palatable; and for this reason T shall only sioro such potatoes in lime and ...