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POTATOES

... others of a common fize; and from the potato which was cut or fliced, only 120 were produced, The potatoes were fhewn to feveral gen tlemen, who expreffed their aftonifhment at the uncommon produce of the potato planted whole, and which now appears to ...

Published: Sunday 02 December 1787
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 212 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

POTATOES

... POTATOES. To Mr Alexander Stewart tackfman of Ardachy, for the greatet proportion of arable land under a potatoe erop, and which produced the greateft quantity of potatoes of any tenant in the counties of lovernefs and Rofs, anno 1794— Five Guineas. BLACK ...

Published: Tuesday 21 March 1797
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 395 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

POTATOES

... half of land that I fed with potatoes in the. ipring of 1790, indead of havi-g a Summer bllorw to kill weeds >aA qiiick grafs, as I had been advifed to Ho ; _nd whirl, wheat was fown on the fame land from whence tl.e potatoes were taken ir. the month of ...

Published: Monday 29 July 1793
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 529 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

POTATOES

... POTATOES. Sir Jobn Sinclair moved for the order of the day fot going into a Committee on the reading of the bill for granting a Bounty on the planting of Potatoes. k Mr Powys obje&ed to it, on the grounds that he ¢eonceived no poffible good could arife ...

Published: Tuesday 08 March 1796
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 667 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CULTURE OF POTATOES

... CULTURE OF POTATOES. go THE following experiments, for the better production of this valuable root, will, it is prefumed, be acceptable to our readers.—The fame quantity of fets pro- duced as follows, viz. No manure - - 134 fmall. Coal afhes - rather ...

Published: Friday 01 May 1795
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

ON THE CULTURE OF POTATOES

... fel Le ON THE CULTURE OF Th? itil Cultivation of the Early Potatoe. CUT the fets, and put them on a room floor, where a current of air can be introduced at pleafure; lay them thin, about two or three lays of depth, cover them with oat-fhells of faw-duft ...

Published: Tuesday 01 March 1796
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 250 | Page: 46 | Tags: none

On the Cultivation of Potatoes

... fome time ago, their to the follow- ing premiums for the increafe of the growth of potatoes. To the perfon who fhall cultivate the great- eft quantity’ of Jand with potatoes for the table; ‘not lefs than fifty acres, the Gold Should there be feveral candidates ...

Published: Monday 01 September 1783
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 262 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

POTATOE FLOftl

... POTATOE FLOftl. (Baft be acknowledged that there is not a more il root than the potatoe.— lt is cultivated at no I expence, my, it profpers in a foil which would nerwife barren and unfrtutfoi. The name of Mr ! i:ee, who introduced this root into this ...

Published: Thursday 01 December 1791
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PEASE and POTATOES

... PEASE and POTATOES. UST arrived, a parcel of fine WHITE PEASE, to be fold oa reafon- J able terms. Alfo, a fmall quantity of excelleat YORKSHIRE POTA'TOES, which, if taken out of the fhip, will be fold at 15d. per peck. Apply to Charles Walkes and Co ...

Published: Monday 12 May 1783
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 216 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

EARLY POTATOES

... EARLY POTATOES. Upon the ?? uit. new potatoes (this year's growth, of the farm of Nether Wiliiamfton, nertr Mid Caldcr, on the eitate cf Lord Torph.'chtn,)' were raifed, and eat at dinner, by the whole family •it Williamfton and fome friends, and a Ejcsjntity ...

Published: Monday 08 June 1795
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 52 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CULTURE OF POTATOES

... CULTURE OF POTATOES. I From the Report of the Committee of the Board of Agri- culture, concerning the Culture of Potatoes. J CC-LIIVATIOS OIT THE EAELY tdTATOE. Cat tlic fcts, and put them on a room floor, where a flrong current of air can be introduced ...

Published: Monday 01 February 1796
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1005 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Remarks on the calcure of POTATOES

... 9. of POTATOES. this 2 * Potatoes, there is, un- » 4 certain depth, which hig to their nature, and gr vegetative power acts is ge Ca : Pth, = Vigour. ‘To determine b Y many confidered as a me importance. hf fo Pe ble a to be a general law in the ie th ...

Published: Monday 07 August 1758
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 812 | Page: 24 | Tags: none