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RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS

... Hamburg-American Line. zr A NEW POTATO.-At a meeting of the Linnaman i :8 Society, at Burlington House, last week, a paper was j read by M1r. J. G. Baiter, on the species of solaetesnu r: which bear the ?? roots called potatoes. Out of v the 700 species of ...

Published: Tuesday 22 January 1884
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 916 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

... found to be the C dledonian potato-raiser. shown by Alexander .Jak and Son of Maybole. N.B., and quoted at £14; anonther potato- raiser, entered by Powell Pros. and Whitaker, of Wrexhan, and priceI at £13 i3s.: and a rotary potato-digger, entered by Ransoine ...

Published: Thursday 08 October 1896
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 561 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE STATE OF THE CROPS

... Into, ?? Disease had far better develop iii ti- a-a 2) -- -e t the potatoes are lifted. An Au e.: uzen zrrouer ?? ' | imsportant potato county v-rite6: T - :i - e t-e n never seen the potato disease in its e--- - - ;- year. There appeair to be asres -id never ...

Published: Tuesday 06 October 1896
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 806 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LIFE OF EDWARD BAINES, ESQ

... unfavourable account of the potato crop c- from a farmer a few miles west of Edinburgh :- I am sorry to say that the potato disease has appeared on my farm very virulently, many of the shaws not having one ig sound potato at them. On the farm of a neighbour ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1850
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 682 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE HARVEST

... of the potato disease, .. QOOL.-The weather during the past week has been changeable. We have had a, little raii occasionally, with strong drying westerly breezes. The bulk of the wheat crop is secured; turnips never looked better, and potatoes are turning ...

Published: Saturday 20 September 1856
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1501 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... t THl POTATO CRop.-DUBLIN, April 2S.-The following fact is taken as a goed omen of the results of the next potato crop i Mr. Thomas Delany, the gardener of the Lady Hlorriet Kavausgh, at Berris, couity of Carlow, planted a quantity of potatoes last Novem- ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1847
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1193 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... wages of their labourers. -Tippercary Coa7stitution (Conservatirc paper.) Tsic 1NEW POTATO (CROP IN IRELAND.-Already there are some unfavonrable accounts of the new potato crop, and, although the majority of the reports are so far satisfactory, alam begins ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1846
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 617 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

SUPPOSED DISCOVERY OF A COLORADO BEETLE IN ENGLAND

... collection and destruction of any sand, dirt, or other refuse imported with potatoes brought from the Unitedi States of America, Canada, or the German Empire, and detain the potatoes until such destruction has been effected. The second Order sets forth that ...

Published: Thursday 16 August 1877
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 475 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LEEDS:

... stock of potatoes will not keep till the ale approaching spring, it may be meintioneel that Mniy in. samples are offered in the Leeds mnarket at Gd. or id. a Was weigh, which would last year have sold at I Od. or Is. it a POTATO STAncf.-Potatoes, which ...

Published: Saturday 01 November 1845
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1522 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE WEATHER AND THE HARVEST

... harvest better than the former. The potato disease continues to spread, and we hear of no part of England, Scotland, or Ireland, where it does not prevail with greater or less intensity. Instead of tlse winter potato fields ex- hibiting, as they do usually ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1846
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1364 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... practicable, viz:-l. ?? the potato disease re-appearedin your union l 2. If yes, in howv many electoral divisions i What proportion of the crop has been affected 2 For how many months' consumption would the healthy portion of the potato crop .supply food What ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1846
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 537 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

SNOW AND FROST IN MAY

... very serious darnage u-as done to the fruit, early potatoes, and young crops generally. At present it is impossible. to estimiate the mi-schief caused by the cold snap in this coonty, where potatoes are largely grown for the early markets. At Tade-aster ...

Published: Tuesday 22 May 1894
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 917 | Page: 8 | Tags: News