... fare ? ?? Well, that has often occurred; we simply drop the meat, beans, aud butter, and stick to black I bread, fat. and potatoes. Have 'you an idea whv at your wveekly expenses aref' Yes; they are riot so great, but wlhat -we can accounto for them ...

... the conditions of competition will remain as on previous occasions. The extensive damage to this year's potato crop, caussd by the too familiar potato-disease, had prompted the President of the Society to offer aprize of£100 for the best essay on the p ...

... spring sowing. The demand for spring corn at the two last markets has been good. In som ecases daring the late frost the potatoes which had been placed in pie have greatly suffered. It is this partly which has caused prices to rise. The fruit harvest ...

... half or quarter potato crop, or even less, while of the potatoes which viere available a great part were immature, if not diseased; and though they might not be unfit for food, they had not the ordinary sustaining properties of the potato. He believed that ...

... Select Committee on the potato crop Ian decided to recommend the establishment of sLm- model potato farms in England, Scotland, a'd Irelald. The object in establishing these farms is to secu~re ecn tinually fresh varieties of potato, amd thus prevern the ...

... weight of fowls and 6,000 quarts of soup were consumed. In the two days there were eaten 30 barrels of Irish potatoes, three barrels ot sweet potatoes three barrels of onions, 5,000 ears of green corn, 150 bushels of tomatoes, 288 cans of American peas, 144 ...

... it was formerly. Every man had a cottage and a rood of l ground-he did not need more than a plot on wiaich I to cultivate potatoes, &o., so that lie had no desire for more land. He advocated the turning of arable land into pasture.-MNr. Digby Collins, ...

... Stem ends of potatoes .. 14S Seed ends of potatoes -., 1 One eye to a bill -------------------- Si Yvwo eyes to a bill ,,,,,,.,,.,-- .- 104 Three eves to a bill 160 Large whole potatoes, it will be ...

... stone. os w POTATO MARKET el hi LDmts, Friday.-rPlentiful supplies. Prices :-New bi potatoes (ware) 7d. to Sd., do. (mid8) Ed. per lb.; regent pl s. 6d. to 4s., magnums 3s. 6d. to 3s. 9d. per sack of tl 1261b. a; Lz~uBNa, Friday.-Sees potatoes (kidneys) ...

... acre, mnd then dedacting seed, the home growth available for collsmption will probably exceed 13,000,000 quarters. As the-potato crop both in Ireland and in this country is very pronasing, the consumption of wheat is not likely to exceed 22,000,000 quarters ...

... regards potatoes, the most oJ important of all the roots used for the food of L l man, it will be seen that the reports are almost uni t formly favourable. In no year since the great potato T famine has there been so little heard of the potato dis- 3 ease ...

... average crop. The late sown the kisd ore rather in a critical condition. Potatoes have come up up well, end the plants 'have flowered pretty freely, but vall tine voting potatoes, although numerous, arc very smnall. wet ~v~tigwants more rain. Particularly ...