... ashamed, and even X afraid, to put his nalie to? d It is the fashion to extol potatoes, and to eat potatoes. d Every one joins in extolling potatoes, and all the world I- like potatoes, or pretend to like them, which is the same d thinf in effeet. I In these ...

... THE POTATOE. TO TUE EDiTOR OF THE CALrEDONIANUiMERcEPT. SiR-The present circumstances of the country in reference to the potatoe crop demand that every suggestion should be made that mav tend to preserve that vegetable; for though i substitutes may be ...

... prizes than ?? The best cropped allotueont of sahich potatoes form no part ?? at all events, it would be right to withdraw all prizes for potatoes. We axe by no imeans inrensible to the value of potatoes to a poor man-if he can get them : but any vegetable ...

... at- ?? withouit'having recoisrfeto that expedient. ?? appears to the Bdard, tlaat se prdi'ibn of an hn- creaebd quantity of potatoes i5i the 1nootba of Septem er ot 061tober'trOidy be ?? egiuatlf ?? t he .publicas-if the fraese-wre ?? at an arhier period ...

... of them 3it is the potato, to which I shall at present confite toy attention. The Fasne mrs. terv which hangs over the native place of most of the otlher plants made use of bh nmn as objects of cultivation, long attached to the potato ; but it appears nov ...

... starch of diseased a potatoes may be so retained as to form food for the poorer classes; Tehey recoremend-first, that the potatoes should be thoroughly washed and cleaned. Second-the breaking down of the stenc- tn ture of the potato, but not so'as to separate ...

... price nt'these potatoes were lOs. 6d. per sack, and the 0 expettce of assahing, pariag, and kiln-drying theam, came to Ss. per ctvt., but would have been considerably less if a larger qtjantity had been dote at the same time. h As potatoes, if well washed ...

... ] prudent or not to plant diseased potatoes ? It would be wrong I in him, as a lecturer, to recommend the planting of diseased I potatoes, but if parties were unable to get the early seed plant, and if the potatoes were only partially diseased, they might ...

... of it. potato hloer is all exceedingly sinsple process, and (could, to a great rr extent, be done by hand icc our farme houses. Tics farmer has n only to procure large andcoarse graters, aiclrirucdown pthe potatoes upon tedio. Thegiaced potato inattcer ...

... wild potato of South i Amnemica. Perhaps the mode of manuring should be chanqed. !Thle present methodi of planting potatoes in the midst of wman- lure, itself undergoimig putrefaction, may in process of time . commuiiicaito a taint to the potato. In this ...

... THE POTATO DISEASE. 'e fETlIOD 3Y WXWICHi THE FAlIMER 7AY RECOMPENSE HIMSELF e, FOR THE LOSS OF THE POTATO ROOT. le To the Editor of the Glasgoto Herald. as Sca,-The present failure in the potato crop is truly alarming. in It is in vai any longer to attempt ...

... TrE POTATO DISEASE. VAZZOC& XEIIxOfl ax -WITcE O~lt PayT UK flOCUflD Il11uM DIASEASED PO ~~'TAThOE. (From thc Snnc'olow.) 'We regret to hlear that inl somel piCrC5 large hteapp fptte here been tlu'svii awway ats ?? 'e ?? almost overy ease, by grating ...