... CULTIVATION OF POTATOES. Sir,-I observe it stated, that in some counties there is a great failure of the potato crop; this, I think, may be remedied by sowing the seed. Sets will not last above twelve or fourteen years after that time they decline, and ...

... THE POTATO CROP. The potato disease, says the (Harden, has followed the track of the thunderstorms and heavy rains whiob we have lately had, and the result is total destruc. tion. There has been no attack so swift, so general, so complete, for 20 or more ...

... THE POTATO CROP. The potato disease, says the Garden, has followed the track of the thunderstorms and heavy rains wbicp we have lately had, and the result is total destruk tion. There has been no attack so swift, so genera., so complete, for 20 or more ...

... THE POTATO DISEASE. We extract the following communication from the Times In the Times of July 20, 18,17, I stated my belief thllt the potato disease resulted from a long-cpntinued ill-treatment Ihc tubers, and from the too great of the soil in which ...

... THE POTATO DISEASE. IT is now beyond question that one of the most popular of all esculents, the Potato, is diseased this year to an alarming extent. Not only in England and Ireland, but in France, the crop is so deficient as to threaten a potato famine ...

... SUBSTITUTES FOR POTATOES. We are threatenid with something like a potatoe famine and those who remember the similar disater in 184(5 do not need to be told how grave is now the pro pect, with a vastly increased populat ion, and a stale of depression ...

... THE POTATO E DISEASE. BY A PRACTICAL FARMER. We copy the following valuable article from the Mark Lane Express, in the hope that it may prove of service, not only to the farmers of this neighbourhood, but to the agricultural interest generally — There ...

... HOW TO COOK POTATOES. A writer in the Gardener's Magazine gives the follow- ing direction on this subject:—There are two methods by which to cook peeled potatoes-boiling and steaming. Potatoes baked should have their skins on some will, perhaps, take ...

... him, or his pay continued in winter, or when work is not wanted ? Why should he have hit cottage at a low rent ? Why should potato ground or an allottment be provided, when the employer can no longer look upon him as a friend but rather muit regard him ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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