The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . preserved (5,174),6,319. Dairy produce and substitutes: — Butter(87,161 cwt.), 71,732; margarine (21,837), 15,029;cheese (65,032), 56,759; milk, fresh in cans ordrums (160), — ; cream (77), 24 ; milk, condensed(17,927), 15,105 ; milk, preserved (351), 64. Eggs (great hundreds) :-(431,340), 366,194 ;poultry (value £3,502), £2,369 ; game (value£1,043), £1,423; rabbits, dead (not tinned), (47,979cwt.), 20,088 ; lard (27,933 cwt.), 35,418. Corn, grain, meal, and flour :—Wheat (2,819,400cwt.), 1,812,800; wheat meal and flour (241,900),245,000; barloy


The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . preserved (5,174),6,319. Dairy produce and substitutes: — Butter(87,161 cwt.), 71,732; margarine (21,837), 15,029;cheese (65,032), 56,759; milk, fresh in cans ordrums (160), — ; cream (77), 24 ; milk, condensed(17,927), 15,105 ; milk, preserved (351), 64. Eggs (great hundreds) :-(431,340), 366,194 ;poultry (value £3,502), £2,369 ; game (value£1,043), £1,423; rabbits, dead (not tinned), (47,979cwt.), 20,088 ; lard (27,933 cwt.), 35,418. Corn, grain, meal, and flour :—Wheat (2,819,400cwt.), 1,812,800; wheat meal and flour (241,900),245,000; barloy (1,008,600), ; oats (255,700),122,800; poas (26,010), 12,040; beans ()9,370 ; maize or Indian corn (1,519,600), 904, Fruit (raw):— Apples (15,629 cwt.), 12,702;grapes (-3,511 cwb.), 37,449 ; pears (33,925 cwt.),45 015; plums (111,581 cwt.), 25,585. Hay (1,991 tons), 1,632; straw (1,032 tons),1,1081 tnOSS litter (933 tons), 1,723; hops (1,656cwt,), 386. September 16, 1907 MARK LANE EXPRESS AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL 335. Fig. 1.—Magnified fungus- It grows grey only in colour upon raw potato, but Is greenupon cooked tubers. In the second circle are two tufts from the first, still farthermagnified in order to show the spores—or sporules—in chains, and then breaking spore is capable of setting up a mycelium bed. POTATO FUNGI. THEenormous value of the potato as an article offood should render all contributions bearing onthe study of its diseases welcome to all those mostconcerned io its cultivation. The vegetable seemsto be especially liable to extremely objectionableattacks of fungi in both tuber and haulm, and thepernicious results must often discourage propose, as some slight help towards elucidatingsome of its weaknesses, to describe some impres-sions dealing with the subject, which may have atendeacy towards leading interested readers togive fuller consideration to it. Suppose we cut a raw potao into slices andplace them in a


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