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... LAUGHING POTATOES. In America the good old custom of serving potatoes in their jackets has been revived, as weB as the carved wooden bowls for holding them, and the small wooden platters on which to place the skins when removed. The scientific way boiling ...

... TOBACCO AND THE POTATO. Wis- -S 8a* ...

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... that notwith- standing the precarious nature of the culti- vation of the potato, the Irish peasantry appear to place the whole of their eggs in this very unsafe basket. The potato is an exotic, and as such can never be depended upon in such a humid atmosphere ...

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... THE POTATOE CROP IN SCOTLAND. In all the best potatoe-growing districts the crop, as a whole, is a sad wreck. On the rich black loams in the north and west of Scotland— more especially those in the neighbourhood of the towns, an t which were highly m ...

... appearance of the potato blight almost universally over the unfortunate ieland. The blight, first seen iu the poorer lands on the coast extendiug from Douegal westward to Wvx- ford, has spread with such rapidity that tbe entire potatoe crop is affected ...

... YOUNG POTATOES. P*t Murphy: Axin yor pardon, sor, bud have you seen my young potato crop ? Old Gentleman: Young potato crop, Murphy, why, what do you mean ? Pat: Shure, sor, I mane the childrer; I call them me young potato crop, becos me name's Murphy ...

... BARLEY-MEAL AND POTATOES. Horticulture asks what would be the average weight of goodness in one sack of boiled potatoes in proportion to one sack of barley-meal ? And would it be as profitable wheu fattening pip to give them part potatoes ground up, instead ...

... THE POTATOES AND GROCERIES FOR THE POOR. MORE matter inviting scrutiny was presented to the Cardiff Board of Guardians last Saturday.- A difficulty of a very peculiar nature has arisen about the potatoes, with which the more we read the explanation, the ...