... just as a potato is called a spud He is only known to his buyer, his employer, by a number. let us look at the second quotation taken from NT paper. It refers to the commodity Potato. Potatoes are sold, like working men, for a price. The potato merchants ...

... the poor, showing - Mrs Henry - how to make Scotch Broth out of potato peelings and Banana skins, aud how to make nice pudding's for the dear children - with equal portions of skim milk and water with a pinch of salt in place of sugar. It's just as ...

... for the crop. Let x lab. equal y potatoes in the good season. Now if in the bad season the yield is,only equal to half that of the good season, then x hrs. lour equals y/2 potatoes in the bad season. Say that y potatoes in the good season sells at Ea, ...

... ruinous ' potato prices, the farmers have almadv taken steps to curtail the supply of potacnes to the market, and thus raise the proe o! spuds. The Manchester Guardian of Frit!•ty, 25 Aug., reports that at a oonfuenne of Yorkshire farmers and potato growars ...

... that the Government must control the foodstuffs, are asked to read the following : • I here is a good story about the seed potatoes supplied to the thousands of plot-holders in the London area. 2hcy arc from being of the best quality, these 'daises. Some ...

... confronted by a serious potato rhortage. The autumn crop is much smaller than usual, and there are no means of enmeying the potatoes to the towns before the frosts set (ideas arrangementa can speedily kw for tivrisport, a potato famine is unavoidable. ...

... of Labour and Defence of 29th April gives the peasants' Co-operatives the right of purchasing seed potatoes at the current market price. These potatoes are not to be subject to any requisition, and any local authorities who seek to hinder the transport ...

... with regard to the production of potatoes, to which F. H. Warner particularly refers. What, then, does determine the price of potatoes? Anyone experienced in the business will inform us that the market price of potatoes is determined by the size and soundness ...

... part of the. people followed. Three or four years of famine occurred from 1846. Ireland grew grain for England, but lived on potatoes. The famine caused appalling misery, and the people were left to die. At least three-quarters of a million died and two and ...

... from crime, when it is onsky his full stomach. On half allowance he would be as ugly and knavish as anybody. Don't mistake potatoes for principler— THOMAS CARLYLIL ...

... are keeping strict to 3larxian principle. Last Saturday we supplied to all the people half a pound of bread, one pound of potatoes, and one ounce of margarine from funds which we collected from the shops; but before issuing anything they had to produce ...

... which itself has its place and time. The value, then, is the central point around which price hovers, and with the commodity, potatoes, we find that there is, as in all things, a relative term as regards their volume. The crop is said to be good or bad, which ...