... THE POTATO ??? Drought of long contin Uance hftg se nously diminished the average the season's production Correspondents agree (say tfle oar dcncrs ar/n zinc) in representing the potato crop seriously prejudiced, and in » endangered, by the of the rainfall ...

... THE POTATO CROP. A fairly correct estimate of the potato crop England and Scotland can now be arrived at, and may (says the M'prniwj Pott) be of some interest. Four-fifths of the fiotatoes grown consist of champions and magnums, with few regents and victorias ...

... THE POTATO CROPS. The potato disease, the Garden says, has fo!«> lowed the track tiie heavy rains which -we have lately had, and the l'esulfc is total destruction. There has becu 110 attack swift, so general, so complete for twenty or mo. years. Large ...

... WHISKY AND POTATOES Jedburgh to-day, Henry Dickson, drover, was dealt with under the First Offenders Act, for stealing 211>9. of potatoes from garden at Nowcastleton. He said lud been dipping sheep ail day, the farmer gave him a buttle of whisky keep ...

... THE POTATO CROP. All early crops of potatoes (says the Gardeners' Magazine) are more or less affected with the disease. In some cases it very serious already, especially in cold late soils. The. are plenty of tubers to each stool, but owing to the early ...

... fried potato restaurant—on the Boulevard de Clichy. Here one can get the Royalist and Clerical /rites, the Bonapartist and Boulangi«t kidneys, and the Opportunist and Revisionist ai—Lt ds trrrr. ben you ask for your potato. says a correspondent, curtain ...

... These remedies are—l, Searchiug for aud crushing every potato beetle wherever found '2, frequent visits the potato holds, and searching for the eggs deposited on the under aide of the leaves of the potato vine ; and 3, watching for the presence of the lav ...

... THE POTATO CROP. Potato disease is reported to have several places far removed from each other, and fear (says the Gardener's therefore, that it will become general. The a.-h-leaf section appears at present to be most seriously affected, account probably ...

... THE POTATO CROP. The Gardener's Magazine says :—This crop is danger, although neither fungus nor beetle have as yet assailed it anywhere. The tubers have ripened prematurely, and, generally speaking, the crop is light but good. Now, the danger it is is ...

... terday, before Sheriff Hamilton, two men, named were Henry Drysdale and Angus Beaton, charged with stealing four bags of potatoes, the property of Mr Thomas Mylne, from the farm steading at Niddrie Mains, in the yarish of Liberto on the 7th or Sth inst ...

... STEALING POTATOES. jAt the Edinburgh Sheriff Summary Court yesterday afternoon, before Sheriff Hamilton, Peter Wilson, Win., Andersgn, and Rose Ann Thomson or Anderson were charged with stealing about two stones of potatoes from a potato pit on the farm ...

... SUBSTITUTES FOR POTATOES. We are threatened (says the Lancet) with something like a potato famine, and many and well-intentioned are the suggestions which are being made with the view of providing substitutes for the potato. Tho French haricots blan ...