... THE POTATO DISEASE. Tue outbreakof tbe potato disease throughout the length and breadth of the land brings with it the usual crop oi nostrums aad suggestions for its destruction. Unfor- tunately wa have lost all faith ia their utility, although we are ...

... THE POTATO DISEASE. Sir, — It appears singular that while the failure of the potato crop is more or less general all over the country, no advice is offered to the growers in their trouble. I have in former years seen it stated that to cut off the haulm ...

... POTATO FAILURE. ON OF THE AGRICULTURAL POOR IN NORTH HANTS, &c. (From our Correspondent.) atemente have gone forth that the agricultura' are suffering great distress in this part of the rticularly. Ihe condition of that class is bad some places, it must ...

... THE POTATO BLIGHT. ■ TO THE EDITOR OK THE MORXING POST. SlR,— Seeing that of late experiments have heen tried with a view of finding a remedy for preventing the disease ' or blight which is so frequently visiting our potato crops, j especially in wet ...

... Potato Growing. To an article in the Field on the expenses and returns of the potato crop some interesting parti* enlara are Riven relative to the remunerating capabilities of potato-growing. The general result of the investigation is not very encouraging ...

... Spraying Potatoes. A oommanication from Mr. Hill, of the Aspatria Agricultural College, reminds us of the approach the period when the potato crop should safeguarded against its deadly enemy the Peruooapora Infestans by the use of solution of blue stone ...

... Potato Lifting. Towards the end of the month potato lifting becomes general. It is a very important time for the farmer, for the tuber has considerable influence on the favourable or unfavourable aspect of the balance-sheet. There are three methods of ...

... THE POTATO DISEASE TO THE EDITOR. c r „ r> v . DERBY, Nov. 1, 184-5. ?? me through the medium of your paper to wA- w remarks t0 the growers of potatoes 'in this county Within my own remembrance the great bulk of all the potatoes grown each year was as ...

... THE POTATO DISEASE. TO THE EDITOR OV THE MORNING POST. yn, — TLe potato disease, in its most aggravate I form is : piiij assuming imperial proportions. Will you fchere- fcie give mo a coiner in the Morning Post to state the issue of an experiment I made ...

... sack for the very same kind of potatoes thus the poor, under the false impression that their potatoes would not keep, were driven to sell at a nominal price and le-nonsS^^ bulnoS.^ £#£;&__ fft T* \^ *■• to find out the potatoes keen ben, r ...

... THE POTATO PANIC. W e have received from a most respectable farmer in Not- tinghamshire a letter, of which the following is an extract:— '• What a farce is the pretended scarcity of potatoes ' I never saw them more plentiful, nor of better quality. They ...

... The Potato Crop. As the time for digging the main crop potatoes approaches increasing interest attaches to consideration of the condition and prospects of the crop. Potato growing, if it does not receive quite the universal prominence that is devoted ...