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... PROLIFIC CROP OF POTATOES. A Nuneaton correspondent says :—The Attie- borough allotment holders are gathering marvellous crop of potatoes. A single specimer, has turned the scale at 31b. 207. aud the genera) yield is four strikes to the rood. Considering ...
... BOILING POTATOES IN THEIR JACKETS. A correspondent, writing from Fulhnm, affirms that there can be no doubt that potatoes boiled in their jackets are better and more wholesome than those which are first peeled. The reon, he states, is not far to seek ...
... HOW TO UTILISE POTATOES. At an opportune moment, when the whole of our potato crop is threateqed, Dr. Hooker, of Kew comes forward and gives some valuable hints as to utilising the deceased tubers. He says that the starch of the potato, which is not affected ...
... THE POTATO DISEASE. Evidoiice was given on Tuesday, before the Potatoe Crop Committee, at the House of Com- mln: by Mr Dyer, a si is ton t director of Kew Garut na, and Mr Citrnitfcgrs, for a number of years naturalist of t' e l>oy l Agricultural ^ocietr ...
... THE CARDIFF POTATO WOMEN. TERMINATION OF THE STRIKE. The West (juay yesterday assumed its normal aspect, for ttie w.,ir)en who came out on strike have resumed work at terms which, if not exactly what they have desired, are much better than they formerly ...
... THE REMEDY FOR THE POTATO DISEASE. MESSRS Sutton and Sons' experiments with the sulphate of copper remedy for potato disease have created a good deal of surprise. The eminent Reading seedsmen have ob. tained results which differ widely from those of Dr ...
... ABSENCE OF THE POTATO DISEASE. I HAVE not seen any notice taken of the remarkable fact that this year this part of the country is free from that scourge, the potato disease. It is something like forty years since the disease first showed itself in South ...
... GLUT IN THE POTATO MARKET. VIEW OF A CARDIFF MERCHANT. > With reference to the paragraph published in tne South Wales Daily News on Wednesday regarding the glut in the potato market, in con- sequence of which growers in the Lincolnshire' fens and in Essex ...
... POTATO BLOSSOM FOR DECORATION We )earn that the Americans, weary of orchids, roses at Christmas, exotics, and costly flowers of all kinds, have pronounced the potato hlossom first in Flora's kingdom for the time. E Jl^tic Boston leads the way, and decorates ...
... THE POTATOE DISEASE IN JERSEY. The potatoe disease is very prevalent in several parts of Jersey. The cause is attributed to the late heavy ...
... THE POTATO BLIGHT IN IRELAND. The Irish Registrar-General has issued special inquiries to the investigators who supply agricul- tural statistics with a view to ascertain precisely the extent of the potato blight, the distinctive variety of potato in which ...
... THE POTATO FAILURE IN LANCASHIRE. Throughout the whole of. Lancashire the loss of tbo. potat crop from disease and flood has this year been most, disastrous. In the northern division of tha, couriiiy, about Kirkhan^, Garstaug, Great Ecclslc, Pilii.og ...