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THE POTATO SPECULATION IN AMERICA

... from his connection with I the potato fever, will place before the public in March his Climax potato, a seedling of the Early Goodric-h, of which ho says, it is, all things considered, the most promising early potato with which Iam acquainted -and ...

Published: Wednesday 03 February 1869
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 372 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE POTATO

... A SUBSTITUTE FOR TE POTATO. Pni fonnli. nnf eelt nlm+n 41s^O!+ TEE frequent and sadly calamitous failure of the potato crop has been the cause of much anxious con- sideration and inquiry to the philanthropist for many years past, and although experiments ...

Published: Monday 06 January 1862
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 730 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

BELFAST POLICE COURT—YESTERDAY

... SALE. *Patrick Dongherty, a potato dealer, appeared to answer the complaint of Alexnnder M'Minn, Esq.. J.P., Ilerdstown House, Donaghadee, for'having re- fused to pay a Suim of £2 ?? Gd, the price of a-od (11 cwt.) of potatoes sold to defendant in the publia ...

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS

... ready for cutting. Potatoes, oats, flx, and green crops are all in a forward state, and the prospects of the farmer are now most euconrag- 3 ing. It is believed that there are not this season as large quantities either of oats, potatoes, or filx put down ...

Published: Tuesday 13 June 1865
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 390 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Agriculture

... - E POTATOEs.- A Subscriber, County Tipperary- I have a few acres of good potatoes (leather coats) ; which would pay best, selling them as they are dug out at 5d per stone, or keeping them over? What ,is the most approved way of keeping potatoes-in pits ...

Published: Tuesday 02 September 1862
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 538 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Agriculture

... cuhr~ :EXPERIMENTS IN REARING POTATOES. Wr have lately had our attention directed to a large assortment of seedling potatoes, which have been raised and selected by Messrs. Paterson & Son, fruiterers, Dundee, and which are well worthy of being brought ...

Published: Tuesday 28 October 1862
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 734 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE WEATHER AND CROPS

... -WO had a sharp frost on Monday te night, which blackened the young potatoes, and, indeed, retardod vegetation generally.-Chroanicle. le NEiwFY.-Althongh in some localities the potato w has been ohecked in its growth, in consequence of di the late severe ...

Published: Monday 06 June 1864
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1096 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CHEMICO-AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ULSTER

... instead of at the usual period in Novemnber. POTATO DISEASE. Dr. 1-lODGES read letters fromn Mr. M'Donnell, of the Albert Model Farm, Dublin, and other members, re- porting the extent of the injury to the potato crop produce] by tile ordindary disease. In ...

Published: Wednesday 17 October 1860
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 565 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURE

... old lea. I sowed potatoes in lazy-beds on the ploughed f sod, and had a fair crop. I must sow potatoes in same c land this year, and have no farm-yard manure. I in- I tend to sow in lazy-beds agaims; what time will I sow.: r| the potatoes? What, sort of ...

Published: Thursday 14 February 1861
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1137 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

GLORIOUS HARVEST PROSPECTS

... on the potatoe.-Stan- daed. CoNayn LOrTH.-Already the fields are presenting a new appeararce-the grain assuming that rich golden color so indicative of harvest. Hay-making is being rapidly carried on, and the yield is pro- nounced good. The potato crop ...

Published: Monday 20 July 1863
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 615 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

HARVEST PROSPECTS

... relative to the potato crops con- tinne to be favorable. The weather continues unsettled, and the accounts of the harvest are still gloomy and desponding. We had a parcel of new wheat at market to-day, which was bought at Is. 4d. per stone. Potatoes are sell- ...

Published: Friday 07 September 1860
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 352 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE CORN TRADE

... either in quantity or quality. There are no Complainte of the potato disease extending much among the tubers, but the potatoes themselves are smalt and of inferior quality. WaTEarOaD.-AS to potato disease there are as usual conflicting accounts; in many places ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1865
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1557 | Page: 3 | Tags: Commerce