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POTATOES

... POTATOES INCREASED YIELDS BETTER QUALITY BETTER HEALTH AND BETTER PROFITS A small increase in the acreage planted compared to 1975 seems possilbe, but the dominant factor influencing prices is likely to be the weather due to Its effect on yield. Most ...

Published: Thursday 07 October 1976
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 92 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

POTATO

... POTATO PASTRY Plf Thaek goo4pess home grown potatoes, and par larly King: Edwards and Golden Wonders in Scotland, for there are no others as floury and tasty as these. Mashing when cooked is easy enough, and best done when well strained and the uncovered ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1974
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 204 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POTATO POSTS

... gardener hays other which attack their potato mjw tiround may become potato sick, tiny eel/I'm - Ins may infest the stems, and wittworms and slugs may burrow into the tubers. Of late years I have had brought to me potato stems devoured by the larva of the ...

Published: Thursday 27 July 1950
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 208 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

POTATO SEEDS

... POTATO SEEDS A few days ago a reader rang up to tell me that she had found a small green tomato growing on a potato plant in her garden and she wanted to know how this could happen. The potato and tomato belong to closely related families. The potato ...

Published: Thursday 16 September 1976
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 172 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Potato warning

... Potato warning I otato thieves who raided a field at Coleorton have dug up part of a crop which has recently been sprayed and could cause illness if eaten. --- iii;ilait - nes belonged to Mr. P. D. Fovargue of West Farm, Coleorton, and were lifted from ...

Published: Friday 12 August 1977
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 94 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POTATO BLIGHT

... POTATO BLIGHT During July, potato blight was recorded on a few scattered main crops in various parts of the country, but little development or spread has taken place. Weather favourable for the spread of blight occurred last week in many parts of the ...

Published: Thursday 07 August 1969
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 78 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

growing potatoes

... growing potatoes .. G rowers of seed potatoes in tngland and Wales who intend to enter crops M the S.S. and A certification schemes are reminded that applications for soil sampling cannot be accepted after March 15th. 1969. Growers who have not done ...

Published: Thursday 13 February 1969
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 134 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

POTATO BIAGHT

... POTATO BIAGHT Until last week the weather had not been favourable for the spread of potato blight and so far this year there have been excentlonally few records at the disease. Isolated records on main crops have come in only from Cornwall and Lincoln&hire ...

Published: Thursday 13 August 1970
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 101 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

POTATO BLIGHT

... POTATO BLIGHT Until the last week lit June, the weather was generally dry and by the end of the month blight had been reported on early potatoes in only a few counties and on one or two main crops in the Fens. Since the beginning of July a few isolated ...

Published: Thursday 18 July 1968
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 117 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

CHEAPER POTATOES

... CHEAPER POTATOES There is a glut of potatoes just now, and householders are in the happy position of being able to purchase—at any rate for the next few weeks—a little cheaper. The price has in fact dropped as much as 10s. per ton and yesterday potatoes ...

Published: Thursday 26 September 1963
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 59 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

POTATO SUPPLIES

... POTATO SUPPLIES The census taken as at November 2nd, gives a figure of potato stocks in Great Britain. excluding seed. of 3.625,000 tons on liin. riddle. At the census, there were about 77,000 acres in the ground, more than half being in Lincolnshire ...

Published: Thursday 28 November 1968
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 147 | Page: 4 | Tags: none