... POTATOES. The estimate may be exaggerated, but it is calculated that from eight to ten million tons of potatoes will be grown in Ireland this year. Should this expectation be realised, not only will there be sufficient food, without imports, but a large ...

... THE POTATO CROPS. The accounts of the potato crops are of the most favourable character, and it is now generally thought that even should the biight again appear, its effects cannot be so disastrous as was the case in the two last years. Great faith the ...

... FEOSTED POTATOES. )iwiiht'anling the various recipes given in dir public prims for the bringing buck frosted nobi’oes to their proper stale, believe none have. .-is yet, completely answered. The steeping of potatoes-is cold water is only partial | remedy ...

... —The potato crop is abundant, but affected by disease ; the Kendal Mercury states to the extent of an eighth of the crop. Furness.—The potato disease is very general. Yorkshire In Yorkshire we do not hear or see much of the disease amongst potatoes, though ...

... THE POTATO CROPS. North Lancashire.—We are exceedingly glad to state that the latest inspections of the potato crops at Nateby, Winmarleigh, and Pilling Mosses, give the most satisfactory assurance of their all but perfect freeness from the much-dreaded ...

... THE POTATO CROPS. South Lancashire. The Potato Disease is now almost universal South Lancashire and North Cheshire. It has burst upon us suddenly at last, though not without frequent warnings, early in the season. In many fields in which the plant blossomed ...

... THE POTATO CROP. Galway.—lt is with regret we have to mention that disease has rapidly manifested itself this week in the potato crop in this district. It was hoped that the season having so far advanced, and the weather being so genial, the esculent ...

... reversed. The potato, instead of producing stem from the eye of the seed and young potatoes from the stem, has reversed the order, so that the young potato grows direct from the old one without the production of any stem whatever. Potatoes, but of a more ...

... this hope at least—that what are sound will keep SO, as was the case last winter— Lancaster Gazette. The Potato Fraud—On Wednesday morning, potatoes were actually selling in our market when they were first brought in, at eleven pence the stone of 141b5 ...

... THE POTATO CROPS. Within the last ten days the potato crops in some parts of Lancashire and Cheshire have undergone a decided change, the haulms appearing to decay rapidly, and in some cases decidedly from the eft'ectsof thepotato blight. We find also ...

... THE POTATO CROPS. The accounts of the potato crops this part of the kingdom are, this week, much more unfavourable, on the whole, than any we have previously had to record. Many more diseased potatoes have been brought to the Manchester Market this week ...

... THE POTATO CROPS. The reports of this crop still continue satisfactorj from all quarters. We have heard of some few diseased potatoes being gathered in various localities round this neighbourhood, but the quantity quite insignificant; so much so, that ...