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... PIG POTATOES Raw potatoes are not really suitable for adding to a meal ration for bacon pigs. They are inclined to cause scouring and irritation because of the poisonous matter found in sprouts and in the green parts of the skins. Boiling not only removes ...
... NO POTATO SHORTAGE Farmers in the principal growing areas have made excellent progress with the lifting of main crop potatoes, and yields in most places are a little above average. Earlier there were fears of low yields because of lack of moisture. Then ...
... FIGHTING POTATO BLIGHT Farmer , are urged to make every effort to reduce the risk of damage by potato Wight. Spraying machinery and other materials should he overhauled and mado oe:able or arrangements for spraying the crops made with e,m-tr et ors. To ...
... CHILDREN AT POTATO HARVEST 2,221 Glasgow children were granted exemption from school to take part in potato-lifting last year: 422 from Senior and 1,799 from Junior Secondary Schools. Every effort is being made to see that all other labour available lutilised ...
... NEW POTATO RAISED IN A new variety of potato, Pentland Beauty, roisetl by the Senttislt Society for Research in Plant Breeding., Plant 13reetling Station, Pentlandfield. Roslin. has in attaining the high .tatnlard necessary for registration by the ...
... POTATO TRIALS, 1951 A public demonsiration of the varieties of potatoes under observation this year at the Seed Testing and Plant Registration Station, East Craigs, Corstorphine, Edinburgh, will he held on Friday, July 20, at 215 p.m. The potato trials ...
... ADDITIONAL LABOUR FOR POTATO HARVEST A , in previous year , . all ,tep, possibl e will he taken to secure supplementary• labour before calling, upon the services of schoolchildren. Mr. Tom Fraser, Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland ...
... AFTER SCOTLAND'S SEED POTATOES - band's potato crop is worth C 11.000.000. of that stint than half is recsir,il for - -red potatoes. It is worth t rouble, therefore. to see is kept high and that Bets value for mom y. 4e is entitled to expert 1 dressed ...
... PROTECTION AGAINST POTATO BLIGHT Farmers are urged by the Department of Agriculture for Scotland to make every effort to . reduce the risk of damage by potato blight. ..spraying machinery other materials should be overhauled and made usable, or arrangements ...
... SCOTLAND Exemption of School Children For Potato lifting in Lanarkshire• Boys and girls ut 13 years Lod over attending schools in Lanarkshire and wishing to assist local farmers with the lifting of the potato crop can be granted exemption from school ...
... MAY SELL SPUDS Met anyone recently who's been without a potato ? No ? Well, where's the famine there's been such a fuss about .1111 - tug the past few weeks. There ain't no sich animal. Potatoes have been grown, and there are enough for everyone -- if ...
... COLORADO BEETLE DANGER Growers Advised to Examine Crops Potato growers are again remiuded that the utmost vigilance as necessary during the coming months to prevent the Colorado beetle establishing itself in Scotland. Last year two beetles were found ...