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... grating, and fil- tering potatoes, pulp, flour, and .larch may be made to at.fwer various purpofes, but efpccially for weavers ufe, both in linen and cotton, irtltead of wheat flour or buck >■.!:■_'.« flour. At prefent potatoes are prohibited from being ...

Published: Thursday 21 January 1796
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 197 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

i a E L A N B

... length of a bed fown with potatoes at ?? fame time, and though three drills are fuppofed to contain a bed of potatoes,, yet upon weighing the potatoes io each, Dr MauofeU's culture ia the two drills from the (boots of potatoes, weighed double what was ...

Published: Tuesday 29 January 1793
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 622 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Letters and Papers on Agriculture, Planting ,be. Setecled from the Correspondence -book of the Society ..

... fome notion of the leading fads that are here noticed, under the following heads: Potatoes. I. obferve, with a fenfible degree of pleafure, that the culture of the potato feems to engage the attention great a number of the members of this for we are that ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1786
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2798 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

On Ttiefday night, fonae villains let (ire to a quan tity of llraxv in the haggard, at Anneftcld, near Car-

... containing near 60 tons, and entirely coriurned it, with a quantity of corn in (lacks. Lait xveek, three potatoes of uncommon magnitude were dug out ofa potatoe lield at the charter-fchool. Tlicy weighed near ten pounds, and were each about ten inches in circ ...

Published: Monday 15 November 1790
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 83 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

From the tfußSft Gazette

... From the ?? Gazette A method to preferve potatoes from beino- deftrsyed. IT has been difcovered by fome Naiuralifts, that fruits penetrated by froft, fiich as pears, apples, &c. receive no injury thereby, provided the nitre or frolty particles are extracted ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1764
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 247 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PBINTER OF THE CALEDONIAN MERCURI

... - this it-, td furt-ly li.d in Uew the le,l s sing the coafumptiet.i of grain and potatoes, and, iio doubt, meant, til it whoever made and died the farioa of potatoes; or the ii.ir.-h of grain, v- luir-powd«r, i>{ for els : (larsching cloth or garments ...

Published: Monday 07 March 1796
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 930 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

To the Printer of the Caledonian ..Ikrcury

... R, ABOUT twenty or thirty years ago, a Mr Prentice intro- ducee-i into Scotland the culture of potato-.*;, as a far- mer's crop. Before hi:; time '■potatoes were raifed in gardens only, and were fold at 1 s. 6d.to 2 3. per peck. Prentice is ftill alive ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1782
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 139 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

progrefs would be made, in the courfe even of this year, in having thofe indi- viduals taught, who might be

... confequences. is every rea- fon to believe, that perhaps 50,c00 addi- tional acres of potatoes have been plant- ed in confequence of that recommenda- tion. As cach acre of potatoes will feed, at an average, from eight to ten people for twelve months, it is probable ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1795
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 376 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

GREENOCK SHIPPING

... GREENOCK SHIPPING. ARRIVED, Dec. 7. Providence, M'GuiFock, from Dumfries, with potatoes. SAILED, Fly, Ward, for Liverpool, with goods. ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1782
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 18 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HXGHIAXi) SOC!JAIT HAIL,

... perfon who thall raifc the greatcft quantity of potatoes on half a Scots acre in faid counties and Highland diftricls— Five Guineas^ , ' V. To the pei f,„, who fhall raile the next greatcft quantity if potatoes on half a Scots acre in fiiid counties and Highland ...

Published: Monday 20 March 1797
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1246 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TO T_.__.PR/ATER OF TIIF. CALEDONIAN 1-TEP.CURY

... quantity as this. And happily fuch a fuecedaneum we have in the potatoe, at once cheaper and better. That it is cheaper wiii appear evident from the JfaObwing flatcmect : The ordinary price of potatoes through the win- ter and latter part of autumn at Perth is ...

Published: Thursday 14 January 1796
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1744 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

An ACT fcr repealing fo much ofan all made in the 2% I tear rf his late Majefiy King George

... Turnips, and fir the more ?? preventing tbe ftealing or deftroj- ino of turnips, Potatoes, Cabbages, Parftlps, Peaje, and Carrots. 5T7-11_R1'AS, the cultivation of Turnips, Potatoes, C.ih- VV bages, Parfhips, Peafe, anci Carrots, is ofgreat con- f uien.e to ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1774
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 839 | Page: 4 | Tags: none