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... On POTATOES. IT is now 2*2 years fince Potatoes were firlt known in Europe : They were fit 11 imported into Ireland in the reign of Queen Eliv..ibetli, in the year 1565. The importei was John Hawkins, who brought them from Santa Fe in Spanifli America ...
... POTATOES. A few weeks ago I promised to record the resnlts farther experience in reference to this vegetable, and it gives me great pleasnre to keep my word, becanse all I have to say is so folly confirmatory of the opinion already expressed the Chronicle ...
... THE POTATO. TO THE EDITOR OF THE INTELLIOESCER. Sia,— Will yon U so kind w to allow me to make * few further genual remarks on the disease and culture of the potato? Id consequeuc* of tbe lou occasioned by lU ulaeau the profitable culture of thia root ...
... THE POTATO DISEASE. We need not say that entirely agree with the writer of an able leading article in the Daily News who nrges upon Government the impolicy of advancing money to Ireland for the purchase of Seed Potatoes. America,” he truly observes, points ...
... THE POTATO DISEASE. A very important report lias just been presented to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, by the Commissioners (Messrs. Kane, Lindley, and Playfair,) appointed to investigate the disease amongst potatoes in Ireland. As the potatoes in almost ...
... favourable for tbe growth of this fungus. This fungus extracts its nourishment from ths leaf, stem, and tubers ofthe potato snd renders Ibe potatoes unfit for human food, and subject to immediate decay. If thia theory be tbe true one, it follows tbat neither ...
... POTATOES AND LIME. TO THE EDITOR OF THE INTELLIGENCER. Sib,—Erery {act relating to the growth of potatoes now of national importance. A few weak* ago I was in Yorkshire. 1 there heard that an old friend of mine bad, for tbe last two years, grown line ...
... POTATOE FLOUR. Every country which depends chiefly on potatoes for food must frequently exposed to scarcity, because the surplus of one year's crop cannot be preserved to supply the deficiency of another, as in the case of grain. Since the famine which ...
... POTATO DISEASE. continue the evidence as to thepotatato disease, concerning which we state most reluctantly that there is not one symptom of improvement, but the contrary ; for places to-day declared free are to-morrow reported to be suffering suddenly ...
... wheat and barley, oats and The Engl'sh cottager, too, may learn to use potato-jelly, of which large mess may bo made in one minute with boiling water and potato-flour ; (which potato-starch, like arrow-roct, and worth from Bd. to lid. a pound). Let him ...
... “Mode of Application.—The potatoes should be planted in hi|ls. Let two potatoes of a medium size be put into each hill, and dash upon them at least one gill of the gelatinous compound mentioned above, and then cover the potatoes over with the soil. After ...
... POTATO MARKETS. LEEDS, April I.— We had a moderate supply of ?? -were sold at 6td- to 7d., retail 7d. to 7jd. P score ol ?? ?? apples sold at 16d. to 13d. and 20d. : onionj. 11.1. to I-l VI . I stone of 16 lbs. ; white turnips 305.. Swede do. ?? an I ...