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... POTATO MARKEr-FRIDAY. The supplies of potatoes on sale are tolerably large. Most qualities move off slowly, at the annexed quotations. -Kent and Essex Regents, 70s. to 100s.; Yorkshire do., 60s. to 100s. flukes, 100s. to 110s.; rocks, 55s. to 60s.; Scotch ...
... THE POTATOE DISEASE Mr. Robert Hogg writes to the Times, under ,LN+ T 1 5 Since I last wrote you respecting the ,n,„ lfIjr has attacked the new varieties of American nntof6 t have examined, along with the K,v. M. J. BerkeW .k' 1 that are growing in the ...
... THE POTATO CROP IN THE FENS. The potato harvest in the Lincolnshire Fens is now about completed, and generally speaking, it has been one of the best experienced for several years. The early sorts especially have made extraordinary prices, in several instances ...
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... NEW VARIETIES OF POTATOES. Annexed is a. copy of the important report by Mr Wm. Paterson, Dundee, on the propagation of new and superior varieties of potatoes, for which he lately re- ceived the gold medal of the Highland and Agricul- tural Society of ...
... PREVENTION OF POTATOE PUTREFACTION. Mr. J, Prideaux, a Devonshire agriculturist, in a letter which he has addtessed to the Editor of the Exeter Flying Post* recommends the use of soot as a remedy for the tendency o potatoes to putrefaction. The writer ...
... DIGGING POTATOES BY MACHINERY. The trial of potato diggers selected at the recent Glasgow show to compete for the Highland and Agricultural Society's prize of £20 took place a few days sine on the farm of Bearyards, near Bishop- briggs. The day was fine ...
... FAILURE OF THE POTATO CROP. The special commissioner of the Catholic Times, who has just returned from Ireland, where he had been on a tour of inspection, says that he every- where saw unmistakeable evidences of the potatc blight, the leaves and stalks ...
... THE POTATO DISEASE COM- MITTEE. The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the condition of the potato crop met ag»in on Friday, Major Nolan in the chair. Some Scotch potao farmers were examined, and nil declared that the practical means Ly which ...
... HOW TO UTILISE POTATOES. At an opportune moment, when the whole of oar potato crop is threatened, Dr. Hooker, of Kew, comei 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 CROP BLIGHTED. The potato crop in Kent is terribly damaged by bbgbt. The crops in some places are 50 per cent. below the average. In tbA Midlands a quantity of submerged potatoes have only fetchad 27 per acre. ...
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