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Agriculture Higher Farm Yields Possible COURT OF SESSION

... the amount applied annually in excess of that . - In my view , by far the greatest menace to future crop production is the potato oelworm There is no doubt that both the infected acreage and the intensity of infestation are progressively rising ; a recenti ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1950
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 610 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON SOME RECIPIENTS

... of Scottish Seed Potatoes Certification Scheme , which employs 300 qualified inspectors in the season . Largely due to this scheme that British potato yield has risen by about one ton per acre . Is author of standard work on potatoes and joint author ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1950
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5121 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FARM STOCK , CRASS , WOOD , &c CONTINUED FROM PRECEDING PACE

... Pedigreed Cattle cle ** on oOth January . Prize Lists and Entry Forms en application . Also . AXXtTAL SPECIAL SALE OP SEED POTATOES . Laft Year . 1165 Tons . PEEBLES AUCTION MARKET . FRIDAY FIRST . 6 th January , at 1 jun . 150 CAST TUPS . I . AWRIE t SYMINGTON ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1950
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 519 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SCOTS FAKMLNG UN 1949 Up Horn , Down Corn : Problem of Rising Costs » y UCM The highlight ol the farming ..

... lifting of main crop potatoes , favoured bv the best spell of fine , dry , and warm autumnal weather for years , proceeded so ^• noothjv that the shortage of casual labour , pidly becoming almost an insuperable handicap in the potato-growing areas , was ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1950
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4916 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

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Published: Friday 06 January 1950
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 16036 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... give an opportunity for second thoughts . \ Lesson of the Potato The fact that Glasgow school children harvested 40 , 000 tons of potatoes last Tear does me city . Against 40 , 000 tons of potatoes he counter-balances disruptions in the schooling of Glasgow ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1950
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1081 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

YUGOSLAVIAN FOOD FOR BRITAIN 36 , 000 Tons of Meat Over Five Years 18 , 000 TONS OF BACON HAPPY IN SOVIET ZONE

... and 9000 tons in the five years . Prunes—5000 tons this year , and 29 , 000 tons in- the five years . Starch ( maize and potato )—3500 tons in the fii / e years . Poultry—500 tons this year , and 6000 tons in the five years . Sausage Casing—270 tons ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1950
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 652 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Educational RECTORSHIP OF HIGH SCHOOL Glasgow Given Freedom to Fix Salary MR WOODRTIRN'S DECISION IIRTHER BONUS ..

... conditions previously nnnrnvnrl EFFECT Ur I'UI . VIU uahvlsi iviu The 40 , 000 tons of potatoes lifted by Glasgow ' s 3 . 346 pupils who attended last autumn's Scottish potato harvest were raised at the cost of considerable disturbance to education in the ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1950
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1448 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ECONOMIC PROBLEMS IN EAST ZONE OF GERMANY Population and Production Falling

... the home consumption part is largely of low quality . To this must be added the fact that all basic foodstuffs , including potatoes and fish , are still severely rationed in the Soviet zone . Though Central Germany should normally produce a surplus of sugar ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1950
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1021 | Page: 8 | Tags: none