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... THE POTATO DISEASE. The following is extracted from a communication, written by Professor Tilly, of Queen's College, Birming- ham, and inserted in the Times : — The potato disease is, in many respects, like the saus;ige disease of Germany , damp air ...
... POTATOES FOR SALE. THERE now on SALE, thi* Canal Ware liouse, quantity of excellent POTATOES, of the Marshland Kidney kind, at 6a. 6d. per Load. Ordera received by Mr. WILLIAM GIBSON. No. 12, Fat Street; and Mr. HOBSON, Canal-Warehouse. Sheffield, Nov ...
... present condition of the potato crops can testify. l To close this part of our subject, for we shall take occa- sion to complete it finally in another article, we give it as our decided opinion, that potato-disense and ''potato- murrain are merely idle ...
... should be sown between the rows of potatoes, mid that when the tops of the potatoes have died, tlie roots should be allowed to remain in the ground. It is computed that an acre of ground, producing an average crop of potatoes, gives three times as much nutrition ...
... within the last fortnight, till when, the potato fields never looked better, and even to speak of disease was thought madness. The disease will have much worse ef- fects now than it had last year, as then the potatoes were nearly perfect, and many not diseased ...
... Oats, Mealing Potato •23s 23a to 27s fine to 2 ...
... and that tbe potatoes that bad escaped the first sttack of tbe pestilence were now becoming diseased. New Potatoes.— Mr. Murchy, tbe gardener of W. P. Ruxtou, Esq., of Red House, furnished that gentleman's table with a dish of new potatoes for Christmas ...
... weather. The returns respecting the potato crop confirm the ac- counts already published of the progress of the disease, and shew it is spreading. The lowlands of Scotland only appear, as yet, to have escaped. The Potato Crop in Yorkshire. — Goole, Aug. ...
... HOW TO BOIL POTATOES. To have potatoes boiled in tbe greatest perfection, it would he proper to attend to the following direction Tbe potatoes should be sorted, so as to have the large and small boiled separately. After being thoroughly washed hy birch ...
... twelve who subsist wholly on potatoes. As the rapid increase of our population has far outstripped the increased production of wheat or other grain, tbe poorer people have resorted to the cheaper and more abundant food of the potato. About one hundred and fifty ...
... Beans,N«w Old , Potato and Poland a 3>l Extra a3l , , .. Fine Old a OU Mealing, per sl,Ein. N. dj IO.Jd ExtraOl. For. Mlielling, pet load ot'26lb» Site New..o>» i>4 Malt, per load of 6'•ashels 39 42 New..3i>«v^ Peas White 30 • Boiling o a ...
... Solid Food. Bread Cooked meat.. . Potatoes Suet pudding Cheese Solid food ..• . Ml Solid and Liquid. 10? pints of gruel . 4* pints of pea soup .. 81$; 1$ pints of broth ..•.•••••••• \ The quantities of food were the same under the old law; but ...