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THE IRISH POTATO CROP

... THE IRISH POTATO CROP. (SPECIAL TBI.KQKAM.) '1 general average condition crcp 8 3'J, show mg the large falling off 116 points compared with lad month, when the conditiou was 95'6 but it is still point* better than this time last year, when it stood at ...

THE GOVERNMENT SEED POTATOES REJECTED AS RUBBISH

... THE GOVERNMENT SEED POTATOES REJECTED RUBBISH. A: tiie la~t mating of Bo.ir i •atrdian« the clerk formed tbe ua that th*re were tie Scotch s»ed potatoes, which at (betweoa Killarnty and Tralee) a few since, lying , as rubbish ia the attached workhouse ...

DUBLIN POLICE—YESTERDAY

... upon the quays in the capacity of potato-porters, and who had ob- tained badges from the secretary of the Lord Mayor, which they imagined gave them a monopoly in the trade, and au- thorised them to load and unload potatoes, to the exclusion of all other ...

APPALLING PROSPECTS OF THE IRISH POOR— REPORTS OF POOR-LAW INSPECTORS AND POOR-LAW GUARDIANS

... union, adding, that the cultivation of the potato had never been carried to a greater extent, unfor- tunately to the exc!usior of other crops ; and )fr. Lynch, Poor Law Inspector of Westport, says that the potato disease has made considerable progreps ...

WARRANT AGAINST A LORD MAYOR

... Saturday last, he repaired to the boat in order to sell some of the potatoes, whiep he 'found a mian who called' himself f The Lord Mayor of the Harbour busily engaged shovelling the potatoes that he might make the exorbitant de- mand of twentypence per ton ...

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... National Edncation unon whose -nc e.xperiments on potato disease proven- :.ves have been carried oeb for many years have scat to each National school in Ireland a circular and instruoton as to troatmont of potatoes in preventing disease. The Irish Land Commission ...

AN ABORTIVE PROSECUTION

... price for potatoes. There was then no difficulty I ina his buying potatoes. After the bargain withm Carroll lie asked to have the potatoes weighed, and they -were taken down to Mr. Heffernan's scales. The defendant's muen weighed the potatoes, and 5ir ...

SOUTH DUBLIN POOR LAW UNION

... weight out of every ton of potatoes takes place by sorting hazards, clay, and inferior potatoes, before an article can be produced that would be received into your workhouse. I just mention this to show the market price of potatoes is no evidence of profit; ...

THREATENED EMEUTE AT NEWCASTLE

... extensive failure in the potato crop this year, and that in many in- stances, even where they have been apparently sound, they are now turned out of the pits perfectly rotten. There is, therefore, to he apprehended a scarcity of potatoes towards the close of ...

ACTION ABOUT A SETTER DOG

... stomach some pieces of hard [ boiled potatoes and sains of potatoes. Now lie , w-ould sak his worship to say that the cause of thce .dot's death wathie improper mianner in which it |-v .afedtr -heard boiled potatoes having produced iconvuiston;, ad tht ...

NORTH DUBLIN POOR LAW UNION

... and solely at the recosmnenidtition of the chairman, half at pound of potatoes Was ttken off the daily allowance of the able-bodied inmates of the house, and one p-,und of potatoes from that of the inli in paupers, by the board then assembled. Now, he ...

TIPPERARY ASSIZES—(NORTIT RIDING)

... It She was under examination when the mail left at half-past (I e six o'clock.l PROGRESS OF PLANTED POTATOES. c] TRALEE, MONDA.-In three acres of potatoes, planted bi n by Mr. William Chute, near this town, and now raising m a above the earth, not a single ...