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COTTAGE GARDENS

... attended with beneficial effects, and if dug over in autumn it will not be the worse to be repeated again in spring. Early potatoes should now be planted, and if set no deeper than the surface level, having the soil drawn over them in the shape of a ridge ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1849
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 128 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

ON THE CULTIVATION OF CARROTS

... on the farm, the • whole were carted to certain places on the side of the field, and pitted on the surface in the manner potatoes are done up, then covered with straw and about 6 inches of earth. The best judges computed the crop, which was beautifully ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1849
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1209 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Hodges; on cleaning 37 Ilexhain Farmers' Club 37 Highland Society's annual shows 37 Horticultural publications ..

... publications 48 Hort. improvements. 4B Ice, on 41 Land drainage and irrigatloa Lasythis Zatrocajo Lime, action of on seed potatoes 38 36 ,Markete, 46 Paid 34 on Scottish COO. report 40 Boils, on 41 Spanish &entity culture of the 42 Tolls on turnpike ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1849
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 70 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FORCING FITS AND FRANKS

... water ; if on shelves in the pine stoves, a slight application of liquid manure is beneficial, but in a very reduced state. Potatos&—Sucoesaional orops should be planted in pith or frames, on slight bottom heat. If frost is little more than excluded, it ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1849
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 289 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

FORCING PITS AND TRANI&

... moist atmosphere, and a temperature of nearly 60 Top such as incline to run tall, and support all by means of small branches. Potatoes.—Plant such as have been sprang in the vineries or peach houses for stiooessional crops on beds of leaves slightly fermented ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1849
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 145 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

COTTAGE GARDENS

... also a row of Jerusalem artichokes ; they will come in useful should your potatoes fail. Confine your selection of potatoes to the ash-leaved kidneys, forty-fold, and American early; they have been formerly less affected, and in some cases have come to ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1849
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

AND JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE

... about the 10th or 12th of August.—En. CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR THE SECOND PART OF THE MONTH. lITCRIN URDU. Finish planting potatoes as soon as possible; be sparing of manure, confine yourself to those kinds which the experience of past seasons has proved ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1849
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2192 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

TO SUBSCRIBERS

... them for a few hours to steam, at from 25 to 30 lbs. a square inch, when they were all reduced into a soft state like boiled potatoes. Some of the largest pieces still retained their shape, but easily powdered down by the pressure of a person's hand or foot ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1849
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4494 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... Malt, bB to 59 Fine pale to Oats, English Feed Black 18 to 17 Ditto Poland. 18 to 21 Potato Scotch Feed ..21 to Potato to Irish Feed 18 to 21 Black l5 to 20 Irish Potato 21 to Peas, Grey to Maple 34 to Blue to Imperial to White 33 to Boilers 33 to 34 Beans ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1849
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 341 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

NORTH BRITISH AGRICULTURIST,

... field was ploughed up and planted with potatoes without applying any manure of any sort; these, of course, grew very weak: still, strange to say, they kept green and growing while every other leaf and vestige of potatoes was withered and dead in the parish ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1849
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2816 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

tam, that, whatever was the expense of keeping horses, it was far the better way to keep them on good

... turnips. He believed Mr Fyshe Palmer, late member for Reading, used to keep his horses that were used for carriage purposes on potatoes, either boiled or steamed. London horse-dealers were accustomed to give linseed to their horses; this must be fatten. ing ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1849
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1038 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... Cherry and Fig Houses.—Vide onr last. FORCING PITS AND FRAMES. Cucumbers, Melons, Asparagus, Rhubarb, Beaked', French Beans, Potatoes, and Mushrooms should bo attended to as in former numbers. GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. Continue the general shifting, pruning ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1849
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 320 | Page: 13 | Tags: none