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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

CULTURE OF POTATOES

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

Published: Friday 01 May 1795
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 153 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

ON THE CULTURE OF POTATOES

... fecond crop, is obvious ; both of thefe are more produ&ive than any of the early potatoes; and as the price, at advanced period of the feafon, is always lower, any potatoe that will produce a greater bulk will he more profitable. There is, befides, another ...

Published: Tuesday 01 March 1796
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 883 | Page: 46 | 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

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

FOR MAKING POTATOE BREAD

... MAKING POTATOE BREAD. THE following method of making potatoe bread has been laid before Bath Agricultural Society, of which fpecimen was produced, and met * J general approbation : any given weight of flour put half that ht potatoes. Let the potatoes be well ...

Published: Monday 01 February 1796
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 80 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

METHOD OF RAISING EARLY POTATOES

... the fprout, or nofe end, and the umbilical, or tail end, of the potatoe, and having the middle entirely for the fet; the worft method of cutting the potatoe appears to him cutting the potatoe down the middle, from to tail end ; a practice but too common ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1795
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1581 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

ON FEEDING CATTLE AND SHEEP WITH POTATOES

... WITH POTATOES From Transactions of the Society for the Encouragement of 1 turers, London, vol. n. —and for which a gold medal was adjudge Efq; Devonfhire. AFTER defcribing the mode of raifing his potatoes he fays, _ twenty acres of thefe potatoes, I fed ...

Published: Sunday 01 June 1794
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 561 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE CONSTITUENT PARTS OF THE POTATOE ROOT

... THE CONSTITUENT PARTS OF THE POTATOE ROOT. BY DR PEARSON. FROM Dr Pearfon's Experiments it appears that 100 parts of potatoe-root, deprived of its fkin or bran, confift of 1. Water, - - 68 to 72 2. Meal, - to 28 100 % The meal confifts of three different ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1797
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5504 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Method of making Bread from the Potatoes

... Method of making Bread from the Potatoes. [From Lord Dundonald's Letters.] procefs making flour, or farina, from potatoes, is fimilar what has long been pra&ifed in the Weft Indies, the negroes the preparation of the Caffddo-flour ; viz. by grating down ...

Published: Friday 01 July 1791
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 919 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

CURL IN POTATO F.S

... CURL IN POTATO F.S As it is laid that the difeafe known under _1 c. name of the Cur!, has, in fome places, attacked tins valuable rooc, we think it right to apprife our readers that it is extremely infectious, and that the mftant any of the plants are ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1795
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 94 | Page: 3 | Tags: none