... two-cases of Engfish cholera due-to C eating diseased potatoes. One- case proved fataL d He had also a nuasber of cases of low fever of an e undefined type, which hoattributedto the-eating *of diseased potatoes. The present condition of * things bore an alarming ...

... POTATO TRADE. iTO itE ErMIT01S OF TIH LS55POOL ;MLgCuRY. Gentlernuc,-IL) ,.;-Idering the abtare tulection, ve Wish to retil,;e, cc it tthe min d of the pith'i .andthe lariueretl e ill,; re-ti--; that it is the desire-f *SL. potato trade to lsvy bV tm ...

... 'THE POTATO PROBLEM. Mae', OacetMs) thet folown reaks n How to maryto.remmbe tht i i~notmerely. an andO thttiatt a rig Intilof 61 h lnm Oteatcso a. , t Efiropn and Aelasffr oeI * fasn this figmevry, year, but whe 9b -d~m asncmadttag as-a prtico-as as ...

... THE POTATO CROP. )r The select committee on the potato crop have Ii agreed to a draft report .hich will be finally ml adopted at the closing meeting of the commintteel a eidsy. The report consists of 42 paragraphs. it. 'h begins by stating that the evidence ...

... friend Mr. Boustead. My experience of the potato trade numbers some 40 years. I have been and am at present in both the retail and wholesale potato trade, and have at times bought con- ?? quanxtities of potatoes in a day in the Farmers' Market, ad I assert ...

... was best for a potato crop was composed of sulphate of potash, nitrate of soda, and ?? the Chairman: All bad potatoes ought to be destroyed along with the-stalks, but nu harm would come from feeding pigs with them. If rotten potatoes were left about ...

... POTATO CULTURE. - . .. I , - L Mr ?? f the Agri- Sclua Dprmn n rlni his annual EpotLae ac, 81 ttsta thle year 6k 180wl o oetm ermmered by small farmers, especially in Ireland, on account is of the serious effects of the potato disease in o- many of the ...

... thought no- thing of that, for I know that some potatoes, such as the MIoshaniks, have a delicate skin of violet tint under the white outside. But when I looked more carefully, I saw that this potato was not a I Meshanik, but an early rose, which-as ...

... about an inch long. t Plot 2. Potatoes out into halves and dried for three i hours at about 2120 Fahr. (temperature of boiling water), until they become quite tough. Plot 3 were potatoes in their natural state. Plot 4. Potatoes sown with artificial guano ...

... was remarked that the high dried potatoes not only escaped disease, but pushed with unusual vigour. The latter circumstance may be supposed to have been owing z to the conversion of the insoluble starch of the potato, E by the heat to which it was exposed ...

... attempt to grow potatoes on, laud whieb, either from the *d~ presence of clay or from imperfect drainage, retains 7d(omoleture. On the other hand, even weak, blow-away sand log to may be made profitable by the proper growth of the potato. Lp My There in ...

... THE POTATO DISEASE. /~ ~ I. . X f Fvon U&P Mark Lane Rxzprea.) The recurrence of the potato disease this season, in almost every courty,' hi^disipated all hope that it will ever die out or exhaust itsellf It is now fifteen years since it first made- its' ...