. The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c. arm, Essington, where damage reckonedat £500 is said ti have been done before the Wol-verhampton fire brigade could reach the spot andextinguish the flames. Tho difficulty of theirtask was increased both by the scarcity of water—the common cause of so much loss in farm andcountry house fires in remote districts—and by thefact that the source of the outbreak was hard to get at, being in the midst of a big crop of cornall stacked in a bam and ready for threshing. Among the familiar faces nibs^ng from theBirmingham fat stock show one noticed with
. The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c. arm, Essington, where damage reckonedat £500 is said ti have been done before the Wol-verhampton fire brigade could reach the spot andextinguish the flames. Tho difficulty of theirtask was increased both by the scarcity of water—the common cause of so much loss in farm andcountry house fires in remote districts—and by thefact that the source of the outbreak was hard to get at, being in the midst of a big crop of cornall stacked in a bam and ready for threshing. Among the familiar faces nibs^ng from theBirmingham fat stock show one noticed with re-gret that of the honorary treasurer, Mr. HowardP. Ryland ; and one was sorry to learn that thoillness which kept him away was more seriousthan has been generally realised. It was said,indeed, that there was little expectation of hisbeing seen again at Bingley Hall. Mr. Ryland isknown and respected- by agriculturists and stockbreeders all over tho country, and tho deepestsympathy wil be felt with him in his affliction.* November 30, Field Culture of Potatoes. The market lecture at the County Laboratories,Chelmsford, on Friday last, was delivered by Steel, of Prittlewell, on the field culture ofthe potato. Mr. Steel, at the outset, brieflyalluded to the introduction of the potato intothis country, observing that it was first used onlyas food for cattle. Touching upon the chemicalconstituents of the potato, he pointed out thatfrom these they could not expect great musclepower to grow out of it. He wished to deal with the question from hispersonal experience of growing for market pur-poses. The most important factor was to securea plant fresh and full of internal vigour and familylife. They should get the seed from a distantdistrict. The conditions of irregular growth didnot prevail where the plants grew year by yearto type, and retained the full vigour of the first, and perhaps cue most important,element in potato growing was assured. He had only
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