CHRONICLE. 



[Jan. 20 , 



loss, and the means employed to 



becoming greater; bat passing over hgh tly the 



., rtmt asM m which the Potato crop 

 escaped or Buffered little injury. Loss being the 

 rule, it became clear that the exception, required 



r-entlemcn, jU of clergymen, 333 oddrmen, 

 87 of gardeners. To rather more than 1000 

 -rer was returned. N 

 ity in the United Kingdom from 



stracting of it has occupied a clerk and his assistant} 

 16 weeks. To print it would demand a space such 

 as no newspaper can command. It has, therefore 

 been condensed, and put into a tabular form, uud er ' 

 different heads, three of which are now printed.* 

 We this week give the dry facts, as they cone out 

 upon an examination of the evidence. What the 

 conclusions are which seem to follow from the factj 

 shown in the Tables, we reserve for many future ccca. 

 sions ; as well as a comparison of the certain results 

 now elicited, with the mass of floating testimony 

 previously c ollected ir — « 



eUewh,. : , - 



theircopfesinafewdayg, they will ^P 1 ^ ^ * hem b J fetter, 

 experienced in deciphering sigiatures^and^ by the occasioul 



TABLE I.-EFFECT OF DIFFERENT PERIODS OF PLANTING. 







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if 



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1 





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13 



| 



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8 



ii 



-in 



89 



12 



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9 



7 



6 



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8 



, 



6 



27 



78 



IS 



10 



10 



3 



2 



64 



is 



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139 

 16 



73 

 1 22 



9 

 9 



-1 





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2 



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2 



5 

 14 



2 



n 



! 



1 



1 



] 



10 



16 



3 



2 



2d 

 15 



36 



r 



bMun 1 



October to January ... ... 



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S E E E E "1 



..! 





5 



3 



3 



l 



4 



1 









1 



17 



1 

 1 



• 



2 

 1 



25 



2 



38 

 5 



T 



Walks . 



I 



1 



October to January ...J ... 

 February | ... 



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5 



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10 



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6 



Memo 





a.— ENGLAND I Timk of P 





:.-Fo.> 





•lant 



'-' w 





ied ; sa 



1 to 











rumn ,- 



ntin<r. 



Some 



say February 



little. In some of the northern counties, where there was comparatively little rain, April and U ir»B. Ti 



Attacked bt Blight.— Hardy or coarse growing varieties, in some cases a fortnight later than finer varieties in being blighted, and do not decay so rapidly. Dry, 

 bgbt, and well exposed fields generally about a fortnight later in being Mighted than close sheltered situations. In some places where lime was used, even on bea*J 

 -.! out a fortnight longer in appearing. 

 SCOTLAND.- Autumn planting not rfcornmended ; said by some not to produce such a good sound crop as spring planting. 







TABLE II. 



-EFFECT OF SOIL AND MANURES. 



















- 





~ 



ON LANDS. MANURES, &c. 







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V 



1 



W-. 



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1 



i 



3 



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| 



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I 



j 



Mixture of Farm-yard an 







5 in 



l 



| 



I 





1 



l\ 



i 





— ■ i 



Suffered much 



134 



37 



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•H 



IS 



•, 1, 



17 14 



10 11 



21 



1 



12s 

 59 



32 

 50 



8 



7 

 3 



14 



1 



13 

 15 

 6 



1 



!; 



\ 



10 







Escaped, or nearly so 



1 ..'. £ 





\ 



2 



20 



4S 



1 



1 



T 



1 

 1 

 2 





8 

 2 



..! 



3 



5 



7 

 6 



j 





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Z 



37 



1 





14 

 90 



1 

 2 





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i 





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Wales ... j 



Suffered much 



Suffered little 



Escaped, or nearly so 



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..! 



2 



t, 



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1 



J 



! 



"i 







1 



1 

 2 







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1 







