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THE POTATO

... THE POTATO R. PROTHERO is what Artemus Ward called a literary cuss, and perhaps there was poetic exaggeration in his suggestion that the Battle of the Somme must be fought out on the potato fi elds of England ; but in any case I thought it devolved ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1917
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1342 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

POTATOES

... facilities. ARBITER. POTATOES POTATOES potatoes They have potatoes of clamp applications which the Ministry providing. cheques. This is already tangible, they the going grower holds sell their potatoes. a grower-salesman's licensed ...

Published: Friday 19 December 1941
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2046 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

POTATOES

... Controller will p urchase the entire crop of Great Britain, with the exception of (a) Potatoes grown on holdings including less than one statute acre of potatoes ; (b) Potatoes grown for the grower's consumption, or for consumption on the grower's farm; (c) ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1918
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 382 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

Potatoes

... Potatoes ...

Published: Friday 26 June 1942
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Potato Eelworrn HEREYER potatoes are grown the potato root eelworm is also

... Potato Eelworrn HEREYER potatoes are grown the potato root eelworm is also likely to exist. It may not cause much trouble, but in the chief potatogrowing districts eelworm is a factor that has to be borne in mind in planning crop rotations. The eelworm ...

Published: Friday 08 June 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 304 | Page: 69 | Tags: none

POTATOES

... POTATOES. In Northcmberland, as elsewhere, the great landowners have set the example of utilising any spare ground for growing potatoes. At Alnwick Castle the Duke, if he had lived in the days of fira and foray, might have been thought to be preparing ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1917
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

OF POTATO

... OF POTATO PLANTING o u can speed your V potato potato p lanting and cut the cost per acre with the Fordson Ridger and Front Coverer. Like all Fordson Tool Bar equipment, these compact mounted implements are ideal for short headlands, small fields and ...

Published: Friday 15 April 1949
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 500 | Page: 54 | Tags: none

POTATO

... virtual founder of our sea power, but as the first to introduce the potato plant into Europe. An inscription on the statue runs (in German) : Sir Francis Drake, introducer of the potato into Europe, Anno Domini 1586 -i.e., two years before the Armada ...

Published: Saturday 08 November 1913
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 154 | Page: 66 | Tags: none

POTATOES

... the farmer can make a sale. I C ! NC I NNATU .. POTATOES POTATOES m any especi- POTATOES POTATOES POTATOES crop. A welcome good this, practicable to carry on fullest use juveniles, ground i Picking potatoes out ...

Published: Friday 03 September 1943
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1171 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

FOR POTATOES AT

... apples featured range of cultivars POTATOES POTATOES MALVERN year's gardening of truly monstrous populat;ty show to and foliage variety, specialist the garden of the botanists, and a huge range of mysterious POTATOES POTATOES faraway showground in public, ...

Published: Thursday 08 October 1998
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 762 | Page: 100 | Tags: none

POTATO

... POTATO SrR,-In the light of the e sential part the potato now plays in our food supply, it seems incre lible to realise that its cultivation in this country IS of comparatively recent origin. I have been lately delving into things concerning old Suffolk ...

Published: Friday 16 October 1942
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 47 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

Early Potatoes ROWERS of earl y potatoes arc told by the Potato Marketing

... Early Potatoes ROWERS of earl y potatoes arc told by the Potato Marketing Board that they can do something to help themselves by presenting their produce in more a ttractive style. Last year Jersey potatoes looked better than E nglish-grown. The j erscys ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1957
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 156 | Page: 67 | Tags: none