... POTATO DISEASE. SALT AND ITS VIRTUFA. Reprinted from the We#t nubeorahd Times of Saturday, November 16th, 1189. IT is reported from many quarters that 'potato disease is assuming a somewhat alarming form in certain varieties, and that not even the hardy ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... I THE POTATO BLIGHT IN 1882. Wr have received a communication from Mr. Wm. Coulter, Grasmere Villa, 8trandtown, sug- gesting the necessity of forming an association to adopt measures in relation to the potato blight. He says:- We have been abusing the ...

... THE POTATO CiO1r COMiTTE31E. ~orns: or COtrnoxNs, Tcr I.tox.- 'Vit select con-1 mittee -ppoilittod to itiquire inltO thecaue ofUiC J the pi ita~to disea~se anid the plossillilit-y of orevontiug its ej ...

... THE POTATO CROP COM1MITTEE, &5PECr1TIAL ERTl.AGi.JT. ioTosst or Commo-vs, FiNcr.-Thc select comn- mittee ihich has been appointed to conlsideVr tie cause and effect of the potato disease, and tile best means for preventing its further spread, re- assembled ...

... blue potato like the i sherry, and named new skerry, yielded 7 tons t: 17cwt. 2qrs. of good table potatoes, and 2 tons b 1 l9cwt. Oqr. 71bs. of small ones, maciiig a total I of 10 tons 16owt. 2qrs. 7lbs. per acre. This is f a very superior potato in every ...

... small, for C cooking the Potato were shown, aud some spei- e mnens of tha root itself boiled in these vessels, but o hero the praotical part ended. Some potato flour r was in one glass cave, and Bome of Edwards' preserved potato in another, but hero the ...

... at which the potatoes came up, the plaintiffs were pro. vented getting caibbage in at a proper time. The cabbage were afterwards put in, and withered. Mr. M'LEAN, for the defence, relied on the in- voice that was given with the potatoes, in which it was ...

... live upou the laud, s they muut first be taught their business. in Why is the potato so much grown and con- b sumned in Ereland ? It is because potato-growing e and potato-alting form thoe simplest process by which the Irish tenlant CiLl kleepi bodly ...

... will be Mr. Smiall!, solicitor, Newry. DlSTRrBUTION OF POTATO SEEMD I R1ELAN 1)D. Tii. Press Association is informed that the Societv of Friends in freland have lately distributed 2Ti1 tons of potatoes to be used for seed atmllong teli, distressed pealsantry ...