... CULTURE OF POTATOES. We have read with much interest air Essay by W. G. Andrews, Esq. Comber, on *'the properties, habits, arld culture of the potato. With an inquiry into the cause of the recent partial failure of the crop, and the most effectual means ...

... a firm stil- soil. The potato, like the cucuimber, only enjoys it self it deeply pulvnriseod scils, ?? enulss the n to flourish so mueh in well ?? samly lanl. I s51ouln therefo e reco10itelid, tllat all l!ni Ian wI v re potatoes are to bh grown, if the ...

... would give satisfactory results as a main crop potato. le does not feel quite sure what variety should be introduced as an early potato to give food before the champions come in. The great bulk of the seed potato supply for Ireland has of late years been drawn ...

... directions: - 1. Dig your potatoes in dry weather, if you can, and if you cannot, get them dry somehow as fast as you cau. l 2. Keep them dry and cool. l 3. Keep the bad potatoes separate from the good. l 4. Do not pit your potatoes as you have been ascus-l ...

... 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 ...

... THE POTATO CROP. The alarm, on account of the partial failure, is rapidly subsiding, though the baffled Anti.Corn Law Leaguers are still making out as bad a case as possible against the Government and their advisers, in order to prove the folly of keeping ...

... POTATO PLANTING. The potato crop is hardly second to whent in its import- ance to man ; and although it has been reviled as tbe mother of patiperiSIr, or stigmatised as the grent cause of Iris)h mise- ry, it will always continue to contribnte to the nations; ...

... TH1E BLACK POTATOES. AN' IMMI SI TALEi. I\e a mountiainouis part of the( v~id ii-)vcst of Ireland ?? Tlail M all 011e, his wvife, mid six chl drein. Ilie Was at labourer, etitploycd oil thle groundi of a In iddle-Itian, who reniteid a fariii onl t Ito ...

... POTATO SPRAYING. U HGW TO MAKE AND USE BOBDEakUX 6 3PRXTUREf. The Lishl Land Commissioners consider i4 de- sirabie that Irish agriculturists generally should be 6 supplied with the folloving .nformation as to tie methods which experience lihs shown ...

... THE POTATO CROP. WE regret to state that, within the last day or two, a considerable proportion of the potato fields in this vicinity laveshovinsyniptoms of the return of the blight. The attack is very sudden. One day the crop will ex- hibit its usual ...

... THlE POTATO CROP. AnoUT (tie tiftle t itaita liast years, we have sonle runinonrs albout potato diiSIiseC, T'the Owlr: Exa/itiier of Thiinsdcly lias the followivig:- We regret to say it is now beyond a question (lie discase exists, and, as fitr ns we ...

... ON STORING POTATOES. To TUlE EDITOR OF TILIE FAnSISII'S SAZETTR. Ballitore, 30th Oct. 1843. Srit-As the season for storing potatoes is now come, I would earnestly recommenid nil persons engaged in it to p11t the potatoes in shallow, narr ow pits, if they ...