... was not the potato blight, but the la-d- lord blight and Dublin Castle blight, 'd their battle was a battle to the death against the whole infernal system of landlordism and of Castle rale. That had done ten thousad hioes more than the potato bhight to ...

... , MODE UF CULTIVATION ADOPTED IN CORNWALL TU RAI1EY EARLY POTATOES. .1. The potatoes are set in December and January.i 2. The sorts plantetd are the kidney, and the eshleaf id- ney. The best ashleaf kidneys are procured from SomerWee- shire, andi are ...

... Experiments in Checking Potato Disease in the United Kingdom and Abroad, just issued the Board of Agriculture, demands, from the important interests involved in the matter with which it deals, the serious consideration directly of the potato grower, and indirectly ...

... IRELAND. THE POTATO BLIGHT. Coax, Monday Night. The newspaper reports of the state of affairs produced throughout the country, and especially in districts border- ing on the sea-coast, by the failure of the potato crop convey but a very faint idea of ...

... between each, first a drill of potatoes (Cups as 1 they are called) and then a drill of Swedish turnips, so that thepotato tops in one drill did not come in contact with those of the next drill of the same root. The potatoes asud/the turnips thus grew together ...

... every row of potatoes is reckoned ten yards long, and the first row to produce 40 lbs. lbs, Ist. Ashtop Potatoes. size of a hen egg, cut in two, but *t planted - before they begun to sprout; * any small ones A when ripe ?? 40 2nd. Ashtop potatoes, cat in two ...

... have had an op- portunity of ex.mining the potato crops in some of the most productive districts of Lancashire, where the consumP7 tion is immense, and the growth very large. generally thes number of potatoes at a root is much as usual, but theyare, scarcely ...

... yjear set with -potatoes and turnip 'seed in alternate drills, at the usual time, at! a distance of thirty inches between each~'drill, firs t a drill of .potato sets called cups, and thet a drill of Swedish turnip seed, so that the potato tops in. one drill ...

... floin drains and sewers, where vegetable and animal:. matter is in awstateM 'decemposition; or by an excess of potato 6 .diet. . ' Tue potato, although.it is not, generally knowyn, contains., a T -cofisiderhble 'portibn 'of the' pQoisonous` properties ...

... winter food for the cattle. The progress of decay amongst the potatoes has been par- tially arrested, by a succession of fine frosty nights, and in some cases fresh tops are rising from the potato roots, to supply the place of those that are decayed-thus ...

... season, the rot in the potato crop has ?? n through -the whole month of November, and is likely to continue until the woolber hecomes much colder. There, is no IIpresent want of food, (especially for those who can live on rotten potatoes), but the price of ...

... from rapid means of comreauiicatioo, the potato crolp was not only small bat deficient in quality. But there are other districts in Ireland, and he believed they were by far the larger number, in which the potato crop was satis- factory. It was well, however ...