... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... AN EINEF1Y OF THE POTATO. TuE Irish potato is threatened with a new and ter. rible eneomy, which judging from the accounts given of It by those who have had long and bitter erpe. L rience, will not only devastate but utterly anuibi late the crop, which ...

... Recorder. FElMANAe.GH-The crops look remarkably wvell in Fermanagh; but the potato rot has made its appear- ance. We saw one diseased potato; and in a field the leaves of potato stalks and leaves of some shrubs ex- hibited the unmistakeable blight. We trust ...

... 'THE IRISH POTATO tCROP. The followving has anp'.~ed n! txe ;Z i.:e Standard :- Sm~-The Uovernmernt carn A-i hPal' t ..;: 2' to assist En~lizir fi'~n'-'. our :; *.ar ii'. - thou'-;andl mmundis to i1\;j I:.>:- nzc-rl: i. Ai.: anr English farmer a hu ia: ...

... ttan has been experienced for many years. From a recent official examination of the potato crop in the Arrmaghi limon, it appears that there have been one-third more potatoes planted within tise boundary of that union than last year; that they are better ...

... THE NATIONALISTS AND THE POTATO CROP. THE Eeeooins8t says :-It is, unhappily, now only too certain that, owing to the failure of tne potato crop, wide districts in the South and West of Ire- land will be plunged during the coming winter into deep distress ...

... Top PREVENTION, OF POTATO DISEASE. Drtaiw, SAToUDAY.-Mr. W. J. Maiden, agri- cuit-urist, of the Ii- yae Dublin Society, has pre- pared a valuable report on the reculrs of thie Spraying experimaents on Potatoes, 1'3S.' He says-It the year lS91 the Royal ...

... THE PREVENTION OF POTATO I DISEASE. 3Y OVR? PfUZATh WESI3.v Losnoa, TnrxsDnr-The report of experiments A and demonstrationS conducted by the Agricultural Department of the Irish Land Commission for the prevelntioa of potato lisease was issued as a parli2- ...

... return was drawn up in reference to the acreage and liability to disease of potatoes, and last year a more minute return was obtained, showing the acreage of each variety of potato planted, and the esti- mated vield per acre of each. The most signii. cant ...

... THE SEED PO ATO BILL. THr following are among- the prosiorns of this billI:- I 1. IThis act may be cited as the Seed Potatoes I Supply (Ireland) Act. 18930 1 2. Tihe Guardians of any poor-law union mana 1 apply to the Local Governmient Board for a loan ...

... rapidly progressed. The potato stalks are withered or are fast withering, and the tubers are decaying in the ground before they have attained half their usual size. This year a larger breadth of land was planted with the potato than in any year since the ...