... footpgatli which crosses the field He thept perceivediaii ccii iato the tield sii riidcar enee to piull nli) oins 1r WalnI potatoes. lic pAVuceL tililll ill :a inside poeckst of his coat. rintl tiner sle topeaciidr W\~iles5 pstilacedtniii~ils a eld took ...

... paid 6s 6d for a sack of potatoes containing three bushels. There was very little profit in the sale of baked potatoes. The prisoner took over a third of a sack. Mr. Lane, in his -calculation, said a third of the sack of potatoes was worth is lOd, and yet ...

... usual. They will probably commence in the latter end of June or the first week of July. DISTRESS-DESPERATE POTATO RIOT. What are called potato riots have been very eomnmon in Ireland in seasons of scarcity, and as the price of this esculent is rapidly ...

... sacks of potatoes, the property of Robert Mews. the prosecutor stated his case. Having lost the potatoes, he traced the foot-marks of the thieves through his new-dug ground to the house of Fitzwalter, where he subsequently found some potatoes half-boiled ...

... adults 8 ounces of baked beef, 16 ounces of potatoes, 16 ounces of plum pudding, 1 pint of strong beer. ' The children above 12 years of age at this ration, but those under 5 ounces baked beef, 12 ounces of potatoes, 12 ouncespluti pudding, and beer at discretion ...

... very successful in breaking up a very extensive gang of swindlers, whose principal trade was potatoes. He thought he had effectively put an end to the potato fraud, hut he was maistaken, as the following letter, addressed to his baitff, at Stoke-upon-Trent ...

... the potatoes herself unless she *ished. . Plaintiff, having given evidence, was cross- examined: She said she had cooked rice for the fowls before, but she would swear that she had never made a mash for a cow or the sow. She had not cooked potatoes for ...

... three weeks or a Month after Teals came in, be and I were sent into the potato-bury to chit potatoes (pick the shoots off). Mr. Curtis sent us. We turned and re-turned the potatoes several times. We went there after breakfast in the morn- Ing, and remained ...

... these he grows potatoes-all blighted. How is he to pay the November gale? Nay, how is he to live? Or take a batch of peasantry, who are being used like tea-leaves on a carpet, to clean a piece of hopeless land at 1 an acre. They live on potatoes, and their ...

... AND THE POTATO TRADE.-A correspondeltwrites: Owing to the state of the potato market in London, some extraordinary transactions have just taken place with some of the Fen farmers. Mr. Alderman, a Thorney farmer, sent thirty-five tons of potatoes of good ...

... standing with la baked potato: -eanin -og'c-rosad, Chelsea On the 20th.nult,, :aecording to' statements made by -him- to his-landlord and, the polie, he was- going down King's-road- towards borne when .two men asked -him .for potatoes,.;which he scrved them ...

... dearth of labour for potato picking in the Fens' continues, and every available woman and' child is 'being employed. At Long Sutton only seventy boys attended school last week out of 190, and are earning is. 9d. to 2s. per day in the potato fields. At the meejting ...