... farmers having assured me that the potato crop has been badly damaged. An extensive Lisburn dealer in potatoes, however, says he does non believe all he hears about the rot, as he has never handled sounder potatoes than he has done. so far. this season ...

... THE POTATO CROP. '° MxRLTu ASD LouTr. -The potatoes on Sale are the best seen for many years past. The tubers are . full-sized, well-formed, and of excellent quality, realising from Gd to 7d per stone. After careful i Inquiry, I have been unable to detect ...

... The Sportsman. TEs POTATO DlisG.Aws-The potatoes were doing remarkably well unti! the terrinic thunder weather of July arrested the progrees of ripening, and caused the tissues to burst, through absorption of excessive moisture. Potatoes lifted bicfore the ...

... THE CROPS.-THE POTATO. A correspondent in the neighbourhood of Moy writes - The potatoes cilled Eallygawley Pinks are, I may say, entirely gone. Other descriptlons very bad. POTATO DISEASE TN ENOrAND.-Tho potatoes in this neighbourhood are reporteduas ...

... petition with man as food consumers is net direct but it is none the less effective. They only cat the leaves of the potatoes, but as potatoes cannot h~ve wiihout leaves, the result is none the hs; ibjecien. able. Their destructiveness is not grcater than ...

... would give satisfactory results as a main crop potato. le does not feel quite sure what variety should be introduced as an early potato to give food before the champions come in. The great bulk of the seed potato supply for Ireland has of late years been drawn ...

... TIRE USES OF TEE POTATO. TuE proeseit year, which hts been fuli' ml calamt- ol tone to the pctrto orops in Europo as to the vines ol and the corn fields, does no, perhaps seem quite M tho beast thalu co-uld be cl'.oo n for gratuitously fend. 0: Ing the ...

... THE POTATO EXHIDITION. n COMMFSTNO on the potato exhibition at the o Crystal Palace, after the proverbial reiereuce to e Sir Walter Raleigh, the Daily Telegraph says Is The prizes are offered by the vice-presidents and .e by loading seedsmen, who themselves ...

... POTATO SPRAYING. U HGW TO MAKE AND USE BOBDEakUX 6 3PRXTUREf. The Lishl Land Commissioners consider i4 de- sirabie that Irish agriculturists generally should be 6 supplied with the folloving .nformation as to tie methods which experience lihs shown ...

... THlE POTATO CROP. AnoUT (tie tiftle t itaita liast years, we have sonle runinonrs albout potato diiSIiseC, T'the Owlr: Exa/itiier of Thiinsdcly lias the followivig:- We regret to say it is now beyond a question (lie discase exists, and, as fitr ns we ...

... THE POTATO CROP. WE regret to state that, within the last day or two, a considerable proportion of the potato fields in this vicinity laveshovinsyniptoms of the return of the blight. The attack is very sudden. One day the crop will ex- hibit its usual ...

... SEEDLING POTATOES. MR. CoL.sN MiCPrERsowN, of Viewbank Terrace, Dundee, gives the following valuable particulars, showing the practicability of perfecting potatoes from the seel in one season :- From the seeds of 12 potato 'plums' sown this season, in ...