... POTATOES For a good number of years now the potato market has been dominated by the two main crop varieties, King Edward and Majestic. Both varieties have performed yeoman service but there is now an early maincrop potato which outyields Majestic by a ...

... Potatoes LARGE AND SMALL SEED. Those forming the larger heap are of good seed size, averaging 2 to 21 oz. each in weight. Those on the right are rather large for seed and for reasons of economy may be cut lengthways, in this manner leaving an equal number ...

... Consider The Potato TO many, a major meal of the day without potatoes is no meal at all- a few say, Oh, I never eat them; well they miss one of the greatest joys of the table. The potato is the most versatile and the most widely consumed of all vegetables ...

... the flow. Potatoes do not produce heat at a uniform rate throughout their lives. Heat production is at its lowest when mature potatoes are held undisturbed at a temperature of about 36°F.; it is about three times greater for mature potatoes at harvest ...

... POTATO PLANTING The recent spell of favourable weather has allowed farmers to catch up on the back-log of arable work. At Preston Farm, in the Vale of Taunton Deane, featured in our Other People's Farms series, the planting of 40 acres of potatoes is ...

... well as potatoes found the soil and climate of the County Cork congenial, and the big yew-tree still flourishes under whose branches Sir Walter used to sit and enjoy the fragrant weed which he cultivated so successfully. But to return to the potato, which ...

... Blackening In Potatoes I REFERRED, in our issue for August 15, to the enterprising grower who sold his potatoes in a bad scab year as Sandstone Rough-skins; a selling point being that they did not turn black on cooking. Dr. J. C. Hughes of the N.I.A.B ...

... Potatoes and Point BY T. A. LAYTON HOW times change! Ordin ary potatoes are rarely of good quality in England, and they do not lend themselves as well as certain Continental varieties do, etc. Thus wrote Escoffier, the greatest chef within living memory ...

... Potato Harvesters THE SIGNIFICANCE of the potato harves ing demonstration just held near Berwick-on-Tweed is that the value the potato crop in the United Kingdom is approximately 30 per cent, of the value of all the arable crops together. That was the ...

... Potato harvesters George Wardrop compares the performance of machines at the Perth demonstration and suggests that some designers should return to first principles AT THE 10th international potato harvest ing demonstration at Scone, near Perth, the British ...

... Potatoes in Cornwall HPHE setting of potatoes in the majority of cases is still largely accomplished by hand. The work is tiring and calls for endurance and cheerfulness from those whose backs must be bent for hours at a stretch. Mr. Walter Eddy, of Tregellas ...

... THOSE POTATOES WHY CANNOT the Potato Marketing Board do more to control supplies? And will the Board's new powers recently granted by Parliament help it to bring about an improvement? V I The short answer is that potatoes are a very wayward crop. More ...