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THE POTATO CROP

... Devon:—l am happy to say that there is no appearance of the potato blight, and our new potatoes are really beautiful, assuming their appearance-. We are now brought know the value of k r °od potatoes, which, when plenty reigned, we never appreciated. The ...

THE POTATO CROP

... TfME POTATO CROP, Ia addition to the details to be found il to-days a I paper, rospecting the potato crop, we n may liere sub- r I join the following. In the Belfast Xoroth0'ei, Whig there are lcetcrs U appearing, from a commercial gentlenll travelling ...

THE POTATO BLIGHT

... THE POTATO BLIGHT. Within tbe last eight or ten days complaints have been pretty general that the potato disease is spreading very rapidly throughout the country. Up to that period the croops were in general looking well, with tbe exception of a few withered ...

Re production op thb Potato.—a correspondent of the Huffalo Commercial Advertiser states some important facts ..

... stated by Mr. Smith that the seed of his new potatoes will now produce a potato of a respectable size, and while the eeed of the worn-out plant at first gives potato hardly of the size of a pea, the seed of a potato renewed will now produce a tuber of an eatable ...

WARRINGTON

... WARRINGTON. Stealing Potatoes.—Numerous robberies of potato stores the surrounding neighbourhood having of late taken place, the police have been for some time endeavouring to discover the parties concerned in the depredations, but without success, until ...

THE FOOD QUESTION

... second place, we believe that the failure of the potato will be in a great measure supplied by other roots, especially by the Swedish turuip. These are just as useful for the feeding animals as potatoes, and if they have been grown iu the place of them ...

THE HARVEST AT HOME AND ABROAD

... the potato crop may again become fuilure, we trust there will a sufficient supply of corn to meet the wants a large portion of our fellow-creatures, without again subjecting them to privations such as they have recently been exposed to. The potato crop ...

Hkat. We have been shown ear wheat, crown William Jeffery Lockett, E>q., this town, the Fainworth estate, near ..

... produce 1650 grains of wheut, increase which we way venture to call most amazing. Setting Potatoes.—A gentleman who has made several successful experiments in potato growing has expressed the opinion that planting n ...

THE CROPS

... tendency of the ex- changes having been checked, and the extremely favourable accounts of all the crops, except those of potatoes and beans, having tended to quiet the corn market. In the beginning of the week the reports from the chief wheat growing ...

Suicides. - Friday afternoon, Thomas Adams Williams Richards, a young man ot highly respectable connexions in ..

... in the roof of the kitchen. She had been subject fits of melancholy, occasioned by peculiar notions religious subjects. Tub Potato Disease.—Within these ten days the disease, which had almost disappeared irom our vegetable mat kef, has manifested itself ...

Advertisements & Notices

... WOODSTOCK UNION. ANTEDl for the supply of the Woodstek urnion. XVt Worlmuse,-100 Sack of best POTATOES. Tenders to set in to the Clerk by Eleven o'cloek on Tuesday the let f October next. By order of the Board of Guardians ,5~pt.17,184. BNJ 11O1LONWAY ...

Mr. Stanford, the Conservative candidate, has been returned for Reading, having polled more votes than those ..

... Prolific Potato. —Mr. Clear, gardener, Weedon, renting a garden near the barracks, some days back dug up a root which there were fifty-one potatoes, and several other roots having on each respectively 20, 30, and potatoes. Before setting the potatoes, the ...