Potatoes Sentence Examples

The potatoes were ruined.

Katie piled the potatoes in another pan and picked it up, along with the knife and a bag of peals.

Carmen grabbed a napkin and began wiping the mashed potatoes from her hand.

Later, as she was straining the water from the potatoes, Cade wandered in.

The carrots and potatoes packed around it were the perfect consistency.

Then he put a few chunks of carrots and potatoes on the plate.

Using instant potatoes she managed to make a passable potato salad and opened a can of baked beans.

We sat down and had ham, potatoes, and vegetables.

She put a lid on the pan of potatoes and turned to him.

Sweet potatoes, white potatoes and onions also are important crops.

Potatoes, cabbage and lettuce are much grown for the early Northern markets.

His attention never wavered and Carmen kept her expression bland as she slapped the potatoes on her plate and then returned the spoon to the bowl.

She poured gravy over her mashed potatoes.

Early potatoes and other vegetables (primeurs) are largely cultivated in the districts bordering the English Channel.

Katie stood and carried the pan of potatoes to the sink.

He paused, taking a bite of the sweet potatoes, chewing them and then swallowing before continuing.

The chief grain crops are oats, rye and wheat, and the cultivation of potatoes is general.

Aube is an agricultural department; more than one-third of its surface consists of arable land of which the chief products are wheat and oats, and next to them rye, barley and potatoes; vegetables are extensively cultivated in the valleys of the Seine and the Aube.

The scab of potatoes is another case in point.

The principal crops are potatoes, rye and oats, but wheat and barley are grown in the more fertile districts; tobacco, flax, hops and beetroot are also cultivated.

The imports of potatoes into the United Kingdom vary, to some extent inversely; thus, the low production in 1897 was accompanied by an increase of imports from 3,921,205 cwt.

The system will see that just the right amounts of black-eyed peas, potatoes, and corn are grown.

Alex captured her hand and forced her to drop the potatoes.

Carmen sat Destiny on the floor and picked up the pan of pealed potatoes, along with a paring knife.

She twisted her fork in her mashed potatoes.

In 1909 in the amount of barley per acre (38 bushels) Nevada ranked third, and in the average farm price per bushel ($0.75) ranked first among the barley-producing states of the country, but in the total amount produced (304,000 bushels) held only the twenty-second place; and in the same year the average yield of potatoes per acre in Nevada was 180 bushels, exceeded in two states - the average for the entire country was 106.8 bushels per acre - but the total crop in Nevada (540,000 bushels) was smaller than in any state or Territory of the Union, except New Mexico.

Potatoes and turnips are recommended to be sown in the yard (kitchen-garden).

Great quantities of early potatoes and vegetables, together with flowers and fish, are sent to London and elsewhere.

Potatoes and mangels yield good crops.

Serve with mashed sweet potatoes and green beans, if desired.

Katie sighed as she rinsed the potatoes.

He leaned against the wall, sipping his coffee silently as he watched her mash the potatoes.

He sat down in his chair without assisting her and picked up the bowl of mashed potatoes.

Now, would you pass me those mashed potatoes?

Jonathan grinned and handed him the potatoes.

She spoke as she turned the potatoes.

Other important crops grown are - maize, 324,000 acres; oats, 493,000 acres; other grains, 160,000 acres; hay, 1,367,000 acres; potatoes, 119,000 acres; sugar-cane, 141,000 acres; vines, 65,000 acres; and other crops, 422,000 acres.

Oats and potatoes are the crops most extensively cultivated.

Scotland possesses nearly one-third of the area of oats and nearly one-fourth of that of potatoes.

The cereal crops (wheat, barley, oats, rye, maize); the cruciferous crops (turnips, cabbage, kale, rape, mustard); the solanaceous crops (potatoes); the chenopodiaceous crops (mangels, sugar-beets), and other non-leguminous crops have, so far as is known, no such power, and are therefore more or less benefited by the direct application of nitrogenous manures.

There is a great variety of produce, but the principal crops are Indian corn, wheat, oats, hay, potatoes, apples and tobacco.

The principal crops are wheat, rye, oats, barley, maize, hemp, flax, potatoes, beetroot and tobacco.

In 1907-8, according to the state Department of Agriculture, the total value of all field crops (cotton, cereals, sugar-cane, hay and forage, sweet potatoes, &c.) was $11,856,340, and the total value of all farm products (including live stock, $20,817,804, poultry and products, $1,688,433, and dairy products, $1,728,642) was $46,371,320.

The principal products are corn, oats, barley, potatoes, rye, beetroot, hemp, flax, hay and other fodder.

Cotton, Indian corn, sweet potatoes, yams and rice are small crops.

About one-sixth of the total area is under cultivation, oats and barley being the chief grain, and potatoes (introduced in 1730) and turnips (1807) the chief green crops.

The principal crops are rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, potatoes, though wheat, beetroot, flax, hemp and tobacco are also grown.

White and sweet potatoes, yams, sweet and bitter yuccas, sago and okra, may also be mentioned.

During the two years of his residence in Walden woods he lived by the exercise of a little surveying, a little job-work and the tillage of a few acres of ground which produced him his beans and potatoes.

It is not a commercial town, and its only noteworthy manufacture is the " clay dumplings " which are eaten with potatoes by the inhabitants of the Bolivian uplands.

Toward the east central part of the state there is a somewhat less fertile sandy soil, which is devoted more largely to potatoes and similar crops.

Other important crops in the order of their value are oats, hay and forage, Indian corn, barley, flax-seed, potatoes, rye, grass seeds, wild grass, clover, beans, peas, and miscellaneous vegetables and orchard products.

The first plateful of early potatoes must be one of the treats of the season.

He has milk porridge or tea for breakfast, for dinner they mostly have potatoes and bacon and milk porridge for supper.

Potatoes take up more potash than most other crops.

Serve with creamy mashed potatoes, broad beans or French beans.

Meanwhile boil enough potatoes to cover the top of the stew in mashed potato made with butter.

First of all, peel the potatoes for the mash and put on to to boil.

Potatoes Lift and store maincrop potatoes Lift and store maincrop potatoes when the weather is dry.

Add the cooked quinoa, cheese, potatoes, cooked pepper mixture, salt, pepper and thyme and mix well.

There was a similar receptacle for potatoes in the kitchen.

Serve on a cold day with buttered cabbage, boiled potatoes or mashed swede and enjoy with a fruity red wine.

The large 32cm roaster will roast meats, potatoes or vegetables to perfection.

Baked potatoes with onions, peppers, tomatoes and peppered salami in pesto.

Cut potatoes in half and place into a large bowl and toss with the oil, the remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt, and pepper.

The Godson had waffle fries, which are deep fried waffle cut potatoes with dipping sauce.

Occurrence, development, and losses associated with silver scurf and black dot on Colorado potatoes.

Combine the oil, garlic and Italian seasoning and brush the potatoes lightly with some of the mixture.

When cooking baked potatoes in the oven put a skewer through them and they will cook quicker as the metal conducts the heat.

Cook until slightly softened and add the diced potatoes, milk and stock.

Green potatoes should not be eaten as they contain the poisonous alkaloid solanine.

Crops include sugar beet, potatoes, grain, grapes, tobacco, flax, hemp and wine.

Apart from rice other important food crops include sugar cane, maize, cassava, potatoes and sweet potatoes.

Or try using sweet potatoes instead of ordinary potatoes for your mash.

We had the Guy Fawkes to put on the top and roast potatoes and treacle toffee and things all sorts of things.

If it should continue so long as to cause the seeds to rot in the ground and destroy the potatoes in the low lands, it would still be good for the grass on the uplands, and, being good for the grass, it would be good for me.

A little bread or a few potatoes would have done as well, with less trouble and filth.

The seniors tried to collect straw and potatoes and, in general, food for the men.

Small amounts of moderate protein foods (such as grains and potatoes) and low protein foods (some fruits and vegetables and low protein breads and pastas) are allowed.

Some recommended fruits and vegetables to include in the juice are carrots, celery, cabbage, potatoes, cherries, lemons, beets, cucumbers, radishes, and garlic.

Baked potatoes are all well and good, but for real flavor baked sweet potato recipes make a great change of pace.

The white and orange sweet potatoes are the most common colors of this spectrum that you'll find in your local market.

You do not need to prick the skin or wrap them in foil, but I do suggest that you place them on a cookie sheet with a rack in it to catch the very sticky liquid that will seep from the sweet potatoes as they bake.

Bake the sweet potatoes for 45 minutes or until tender.

Once the potatoes have been fully baked, remove from the oven and let cool.

Bake the stuffed potatoes for 15 minutes.

Potatoes give fair results when they are taken good care of, carrots grow to a thickness of IIin., while cabbage does poorly.

In the lowland districts good crops of maize, wheat, barley, oats and rye, as well as of turnips and potatoes, are obtained.

Nearly all the land is in the hands of peasant proprietors, who cultivate sweet potatoes, peas, beans, corn, &c., and rear sheep and goats.

Although an agricultural country, Brazil does not produce all its own bread and meat, and the imports of wheat, wheat flour, rice, fish, jerked beef and preserved meats, lard, butter, beans, potatoes, packed fruits and vegetables, Indian corn and other food-stuffs, are surprisingly large.

Besides maize the crops cultivated by the natives are Kaffir corn or amabele (Sorghum caffrorum)- used in the manufacture of utyuala, native beer - imfi (Sorghum saccharatum), tobacco, pumpkins and sweet potatoes.

In the same year the production of tea was 1,633,178 lb; of coffee, 24,8591b; of maize, 2,101,470 bushels; of potatoes, 419,946 bushels; and of sweet potatoes, 181,195 bushels.

The crops raised in the country districts are principally vegetables and fruit, potatoes, hay, oats, rye and wheat.

The chief vegetables grown are potatoes, pumpkins, carrots, onions and tomatoes.

The principal economic plants of the country are cacau, coffee, cassava (manioc) called " mandioca " in Brazil, Indian corn, beans, sweet potatoes, taro, sugar-cane, cotton and tobacco.

Other agricultural products are sweet potatoes, cassava (manioc), yuca, yams, white potatoes, maguey, okra, peanuts, pease, all the vegetables of the hot and temperate climates, oranges, lemons, limes, bananas, plantains, figs, grapes, coco-nuts, pine-apples, strawberries, plums, guavas, breadfruit, mangoes and many others.

Potatoes, asparagus, and other vegetables are also grown for the London market.

Their main wealth consists in their herds of cattle and flocks of sheep. They raise, however, crops of maize, millet, sweet potatoes and tobacco.

The clover-grass ley is then grazed for a year or two with sheep, after which wheat and potatoes are the chief crops grown on the land.

On the light, poor sands of Saxony Herr Schultz, of Lupitz, made use of serradella, yellow lupins and vetches as green manures for enriching the land in humus and nitrogen, and found the addition of potash salts and phosphates very profitable for the subsequent growth of potatoes and wheat.

Among vegetables the common kinds grown include radishes, pumpkins, cucumbers, melons, potatoes, onions and leeks.

The soil of both islands is fertile, potatoes and barley being raised and cattle pastured.

In the sierra region, wheat, barley, oats, quinua (Chenopodium quinoa), alfalfa, Indian corn, oca (Oxalis tuberosa) and potatoes are the principal products.

Potatoes are grown everywhere in the sierras, and with quinua are the only crops that can be raised for human food above 13,000 ft.

Patches of land, chiefly around the coast, have been laid under rice, sweet potatoes and yams, but the island is hardly able to raise a home-supply of vegetables.

Sugar-cane, indigo, hemp, peanuts, potatoes of different varieties, yam, taro, beans, sesamum, pumpkins and vegetables of all kinds are also grown.

The exports mainly consist of grain, cattle, fish, dairy produce and potatoes; the imports of coal and timber.

These produce cotton, rice, sugar-cane, wheat, coffee, Indian corn, barley, potatoes and fruit.

In the same year the chief crops were oats, barley, rye, wheat, potatoes and hay.

In the valleys the soil is particularly fertile, yielding luxuriant crops of wheat, maize, barley, spelt, beans, potatoes, flax, hemp, hops, beetroot and tobacco; and even in the more mountainous parts rye, wheat and oats are extensively cultivated.

The principal crops are oats and potatoes, but all grain crops are decreasing, and flax, formerly grown to a considerable extent, is now practically neglected.

The principal exports are wines, especially champagne, spirits, hay, straw, wool, potatoes, woven goods, fruit, glass-ware, lace and metal-ware.

Grain of all kinds (chiefly rye), clover and potatoes are grown.

The industries are chiefly those of agricultural-implement making, rope-making, brewing and distilling, but a considerable business is done in the export of potatoes.

Potatoes have been introduced.

Potatoes and onions are grown for exportation at seasons when they are scarce in northern Europe.

The principal exports of local produce are potatoes, cumin seed, vegetables, oranges, goats and sheep, cotton goods and stone.

Rice, cotton, sugar-cane, yucas (Manihot aipi) and tropical fruits are produced in the irrigated valleys of the coast, and wheat, Indian corn, barley, potatoes, coffee, coca, &c., in the upland regions.

The principal agricultural products are wheat, kao-liang, oats, millet, maize, pulse and potatoes.

Potatoes, apples and small fruits are grown successfully.

Oats is the principal crop, but rye, potatoes and flax are also grown in considerable quantities.

Among the principal imports are cocoa, coffee, grain (including Indian corn), fruit, provisions (including butter, eggs and potatoes from France and the Channel Islands), wines and spirits, sugar, wool, and other foreign and colonial produce.

The mild climate assists the growth of esculent plants and roots; and a considerable trade is carried on with New York, principally in onions, early potatoes, tomatoes, and beetroot, together with lily bulbs, cut flowers and some arrowroot.

The principal crops are rye, oats, barley, flax and potatoes, with some wheat, hemp and buckwheat.

The principal crops are rye, wheat, oats, barley and potatoes.

Oranges, lemons, grapes, passion fruit, figs, pine-apples, guavas and other fruits grow abundantly; while potatoes, onions, maize and arrowroot can be cultivated.

The valley and delta of the Vistula are very fertile, and produce good crops of wheat and pasturage for horses, cattle and sheep. Besides cereals, the chief crops are potatoes, hay, tobacco, garden produce, fruit and sugar-beet.

Saw-milling, boat-building and flaxstripping are carried on, together with trade in cereals, cloth, potatoes, &c.

Other important crops are oats ($16,368,000 in 1906) barley ($8,913,000), hay, potatoes, rye and Indian corn.

Tillage is therefore, relatively to other counties, well advanced, and oats and potatoes are largely, though decreasingly, cultivated.

The chief agricultural products are potatoes and vegetables, beet-root and hops, wheat, rye, barley and oats.

There is an active, trade, both by rail and river, in corn, cattle, wood, wool and potatoes.

Millet, wheat, sweet potatoes, yams and tares are also grown.

The principal exports are fish, coarse black tea, cotton, vegetable tallow, sweet potatoes, and some wheat.

It has been in use for measuring corn, potatoes, &c., from a very early date; the value varying locally and with the article measured.

Potatoes, rye, lucerne and other kinds of forage are also important crops.

Grain, sweet potatoes and beans are grown for home consumption.

The chief crops are oats, barley, wheat and rye, but by far the most land is planted with potatoes.

There is a comparatively small export, except in the case of turnips and potatoes and of vegetables which have been canned or dried.

Besides potatoes, which thrive well and yield large quantities of excellent quality, there are turnips, carrots, parsnips and beets.

Practically the only grain crops that are cultivated are oats (which greatly predominate) and barley, while the favoured root crops are turnips (much the most extensively grown) and potatoes.

The valleys and slopes are carefully cultivated in fields divided by stone walls, and produce beans, peas, sweet potatoes, "Russian turnip radish," barley, a little rice and millet, the last being the staple article of diet.

The acreage and product of tobacco and peanuts increased from 1890 to 1900 respectively 188% and 319.2%, and 92.6% and 129.9%, and in the production of sweet potatoes Georgia was in 1899 surpassed only by North Carolina.

Wheat, maize and potatoes are the chief crops.

Potatoes are largely grown in the district, and the salmon fisheries are valuable.

Potatoes, hemp, turnips, hops, tobacco and beet are also extensively grown, the latter, in connexion with the sugar industry, showing each year a larger return.

Oats and potatoes are the principal crops.

Coal is mined in the vicinity, and near the city are large market-gardens, the water-melons growing on Muscatine Island (below the city) and sweet potatoes being their most important products.

Hay, Indian corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, fruits, vegetables and tobacco are the principal crops.

The chief imports are Baltic timber, coal, salt and manure; and the exports, manufactured goods, grain, potatoes and slates.

In the vicinity Sea Island cotton, rice, potatoes and other vegetables are raised - the truck industry having become very important; and there are groves of yellow pine and cypress.

In connexion with their use as food we may observe that of recent years in Scandinavia and Russia an alcoholic spirit has been distilled from Cladonia rangiferina and extensively consumed, especially in seasons when potatoes were scarce and dear.

The imports are principally iron, coal, salt and timber; the exports barley, oats, cattle, pigs and potatoes.

Prepare manure for making up hotbeds for early cucumbers and melons, where pits heated with hot water are not in use; also for Ashleaf potatoes.

Plant Jerusalem artichokes, shallots, garlic, horse-radish and early potatoes.

Plant cauliflower, cabbages, sea-kale, lettuce; and finish the planting of the main crops of potatoes; divide and replant globe-artichokes.

Propagate all sorts of pot-herbs, and attend to the hoeing and thinning of spinach, onions, turnips, carrots, beet, &c. Earth up cabbages, cauliflower, peas, beans and early potatoes.

Lift potatoes and store them.

Hardier sorts of vegetable seeds and plants, such as beets, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, lettuce, onions, parsley, parsnips, peas, potatoes, radishes, spinach, turnip, &c., should all be sown or planted by the middle of the month if the soil is dry and warm, and in all cases, where practicable, before the end of the month.

Hoe deeply all transplanted crops, such as cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, &c. Tender vegetables, such as tomatoes, egg and pepper plants, sweet potatoes, &c., can be planted out.

Keep sweet potatoes hoed to prevent the vines rooting at the joints.

All vegetable roots not designed to be left in the ground during the winter should be dug up, such as beets, carrots, parsnips, sweet potatoes, &c. The cabbage, cauliflower and lettuce plants grown from seed sown last month should be pricked out in cold frames.

Shawnee is situated in a fine agricultural region, is a shipping-point for alfalfa, cotton and potatoes, is an important market for mules, and has large railway repair shops, and cotton-gins and cotton compresses; among its manufactures are cotton-seed oil, cotton goods, lumber, bricks and flour.

Potatoes are cultivated in all the provinces, but especially in the Palatinate and in the Spessart district, which lies in the north-west within a curve of the Main.

The exports consist chiefly of corn, potatoes, hops, beer, wine, cloth, cotton goods, glass, fancy wares, toys, cattle, pigs and vegetables.

The principal cultivated plants, apart from sugar-cane and coffee, are rice (in great variety of kinds), the coco-nut palm, the areng palm, the areca and the sago palms, maize, yams, and sweet potatoes; and among the fruit trees are the Indian tamarind, pomegranate, guava, papaw, orange and lemon.

The chief products of cultivation on the heavy clay soil are oats, barley and wheat, and on the sand-grounds rye, buckwheat and potatoes.

Little except oats and potatoes can be raised on the high-lying plateaus in the south of the province, but the river-valleys and the northern lowlands are extremely fertile.

The extensive cultivation of beetroot, of potatoes for distilleries, and of fodder crops has led to the introduction of a rotation of several years instead of the former " three-fields " system; and agricultural machinery is in more general use, especially on the larger estates of the west.

Altogether nearly 16 million acres of Russian Poland, or almost one-half of the total area, are under crops, principally rye, oats, wheat, barley, potatoes and hay, with some flax, hemp, peas, buckwheat and hops.

Potatoes are extensively grown for use in the distilleries.

Cocoa, copra, sugar and sweet potatoes are other important products of the district.

The inhabitants, an industrious Gaelic-speaking community (110 in 1851 and 77 in 1901), cultivate about 40 acres of land (potatoes, oats, barley), keep about 1000 sheep and a few head of cattle.

The chief crops are rye, oats, wheat, potatoes and hay.

Other crops are potatoes, colza, hemp and flax.

After the new land has been left for a year or two in seeds and clover, it produces great crops of wheat and potatoes.

Potatoes grow in every part of the country, those of the sandy plains in the north being of excellent quality.

In south Germany the so-called Fruchtwechsel is practised, the fields being sown with grain crops every second year, and with pease or beans, grasses, potatoes, turnips, &c., in the intermediate years.

The labouring man's pig is his bank, and is fed on scraps, small potatoes and waste products.

Food may with advantage be cooked for very young pigs; but, with the exception of potatoes, which should never be given raw, roots and meals are best given uncooked.

Fjord's Danish experiments show that for fattening pigs i lb of ryeor barley-meal is equivalent to 6 lb of skim-milk or 12 lb of whey, and i lb of meal equivalent to 8 lb of mangolds or 4 lb of potatoes.

Wheat, barley, oats, peas, potatoes and other roots are staple crops, the average yield of wheat being about 20 bushels an acre; cattle are increasing in number and improving in quality, and all branches of dairy farming prosper.

Sweet potatoes, ground nuts, yams, onions and other vegetables are largely grown.

Potatoes, rye, oats, beans and peas are also largely cultivated.

In connexion with the cultivation of potatoes, factories are established for making spirits, treacle, potato-meal, and straw-paper.

The chief constituent of the fusel oil procured in the manufacture of alcohol from potatoes and grain, usually known as fusel oil and potato-spirit, is isoprimary amyl alcohol, or isobutylcarbinol.

The chief crop is maize; but wheat, rye and other grains, potatoes, saffron, hemp, flax and tobacco are also grown.

Formerly the island appears to have been wooded, but it now presents only a few bushes (Edwardsia, Broussonetia, &c.), ferns, grasses, sedges, &c. The natives grow bananas in the shelter of artificial pits, also sugar-canes and sweet potatoes, and keep a few goats and a large stock of domestic fowls, and a Tahitian commercial house breeds cattle and sheep on the island.

Agriculture.-The agricultural industries on which the export trade depends are almost wholly restricted to the western lowlands, and include cacao, coffee, cotton, sugar, tobacco, rice, yucca and sweet potatoes.

On the uplands, wheat, Indian corn, oats, barley, potatoes and vegetables of many kinds are successfully cultivated, but wholly for home consumption.

The staple foods for the common people are potatoes on the plateau (which are chiefly consumed in the form of locro, or potato-soup) and yuccaor cassava-meal in the warmer regions.

Potatoes and broom corn are other valuable products.

Potatoes, barley and a little oats are grown, and the pasture being good the cattle are larger than most of the Hebridean breeds.

The soil is fertile and produces grain, especially rye and barley, in great abundance, as well as potatoes and other vegetables, and fruit.

The sustenance of the poorer classes is chiefly composed of fish, potatoes and gofio, which is merely Indian corn or wheat roasted, ground and kneaded with water or milk.

This industry declined in the later years of the 19th century, and was supplanted by the cultivation of sugar-cane, and afterwards of bananas, tomatoes, potatoes and onions.

Bananas, tomatoes, potatoes, sugar and wine are exported.

The soil of Bukovina is fertile, and agriculture has made great progress, the principal products being wheat, maize, rye, oats, barley, potatoes, flax and hemp. Cattlerearing constitutes another important source of revenue.

Tobacco, maize and potatoes have been introduced; and the aloe and prickly pear, called in Morocco the Christian fig, are also found.

Of these, potatoes, cabbages, and turnips are of comparatively recent introduction.

Potatoes thrive best on the higher elevations, such as the Khasi hills, the Nilgiris, the Mysore uplands, the Shan States, and the slopes of the Himalayas; but they are also grown even in lowland districts.

The articles chiefly cultivated are rice, millet, beans, ginseng (at Songdo), cotton, hemp, oil-seeds, bearded wheat, oats, barley, sorghum, and sweet and Irish potatoes.

In 1900 the chief crops were oats, barley, rye, wheat, potatoes, hay, beet (for sugar), flax and oil-yielding plants.

The chief crops are oats and potatoes.

There are large railway car construction and repair shops here, and Way - cross is a commercial centre for the forest products (naval stores and lumber) and the cotton, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, melons and pears of the surrounding country.

The chief grain crops are rye, oats, barley and potatoes.

It does well to succeed oats or potatoes, as it requires the soil to be in fresh condition without being too rich.

Rubber is grown in government plantations and is also brought in by the hill tribes; while lac, mustard and potatoes are also produced.

The principal crops are rye, oats, barley and potatoes, with large quantities of vegetables.

Potatoes occupy 4.4% of the total area, and other root-crops 1.4%.

Potatoes also are widely cultivated, but the humid regions of the south, particularly from Valdivia to Chiloe, produce the greatest quantity.

Cattle and sheep are raised; oats, barley and potatoes are cultivated along the eastern shore, and there is some fishing.

The chief crops are rye, oats and potatoes, while flax is cultivated in the district of Ermeland, between the Passarge and the upper Alle.

The so-called fir-cone potatoes, which are elongated and provided with scales at more or less regular intervals, show also very clearly that the tuber is only a thickened branch with "eyes" set in regular order, as in an ordinary shoot.

Warington states that the proportion of nitrogenous to non-nitrogenous matter in the digestible part of potatoes is as i to io 6.

The "common potatoes" of which Gerard speaks are the tubers of Ipomoea Batatas, the sweet potato, which nowadays would not in Great Britain be spoken of as common.

Potatoes are commonly propagated by planting whole tubers or by dividing the tubers, leaving to each segment or "set" one or two eyes or buds.

Thomas Dickson of Edinburgh long ago observed that the most healthy and productive crop was to be obtained by planting unripe tubers, and proposed this as a preventive of the disease called the "curl," which sometimes attacks the young stems, causing them and also the leaves to become crumpled, and few or no tubers to be produced; in this connexion it is interesting to note that Scottish and Irish seed potatoes give a larger yield than English, probably on account of their being less matured.

The sets employed are middle-sized whole potatoes, which are placed close together over the bed, covered with 2 in.

The potatoes are then carefully taken up from the striking bed, all the shoots being removed except the main one, and they are planted 4 in.

Potatoes are also grown largely in hooped beds on a warm border in the open ground.

This is continued till the potatoes are ready for digging in May.

Potatoes are sometimes grown in pots in heat, sprouted sets being planted in t t-in.

The best-known disease of potatoes is caused by the growth of a fungus named Phytophihora infestans, within the tissues of the host plant, and this fungus has the peculiar property of piercing and breaking up the cellular tissues and setting up putrescence in the course of its growth.

This fungus finds conditions suitable for growth when the potatoes are stored in a damp condition; rotting from this cause rarely occurs when they are dried before being placed in heaps.

Among the vegetables grown the potato is the most important; in 1907 there were 70,000 acres in potatoes, yielding 8,400,000 bushels, valued at $6,216,000.

In 1899 the state also produced 5,304,503 bushels of tomatoes; 2,418,641 bushels of sweet potatoes; 2,052,200 bunches of asparagus; 17,890,980 heads of cabbage; 21,495,940 musk melons; 3,300,330 water melons; and 1,015,111 bushels of sweet corn.

Considering the crops not hitherto specified, it may be indicated that turnips and swedes form the chief green crops in most districts; potatoes, mangels, beans and peas are also commonly grown.

Maine potatoes are of a superior quality, and the acreage of this crop increased from 49,617 in 1889 to 118,000 in 1907.

Fish, canned goods, potatoes, granite, lime, paper, and boots and shoes are also exported to foreign countries to some extent, but they are shipped in larger quantities to other states of the Union, from which Maine receives in return cotton, coal, iron, oil, &c. The ports of entry in Maine are Bangor, Bath, Belfast, Castine, Eastport, Ellsworth, Houlton, Kennebunk, Machias, Portland, Wiscasset and York.

The product of potatoes increased very rapidly from 519,497 bu.

Agriculture is the chief occupation, the principal crops being rye, barley, oats, wheat, flax and potatoes.

The industries include iron-founding and the manufacture of agricultural and other machinery, malt, beet-root sugar, leather, spirits, &c.; a tolerably active trade is carried on in grain, wool, potatoes and vegetables.

Apart from cereals, the principal crops are beans, potatoes, beetroot and tobacco.

Rye, wheat and potatoes are the chief crops cultivated.

Other food and economic plants are coffee, rice, tobacco, sugar-cane, cotton, indigo, vanilla, cassava or "yucca," sweet and white potatoes, wheat, maize, rye, barley, and vegetables of both tropical and temperate climates.

Potatoes are widely cultivated in the temperate and sub-tropical regions, and sweet potatoes in the sub-tropical and tropical.

Yams, sweet potatoes, cassava and arracacha are chiefly cultivated for domestic needs, but in common with other fruits and vegetables they give occupation to the small agriculturalists near the larger towns.

The land is chiefly devoted to pasture for the numerous flocks and herds; but on the more sheltered southern slopes it is carefully cultivated, and produces grain, potatoes, fruit and tobacco.

The principal vegetables cultivated are potatoes, onions, mangold and beet, beans and peas.

Rice, cotton, sugar, indigo, cinnamon, betel-nuts, sweet potatoes, ground-nuts and tobacco are all cultivated in varying quantities.

The principal crops are wheat, oats, hay, fruits, hops, potatoes and miscellaneous vegetables.

The chief trade of Harlingen is the exportation of Frisian produce, namely, butter and cheese, cattle, sheep, fish, potatoes, flax, &c. There is also a considerable import trade in timber, coal, raw cotton, hemp and jute for the Twente factories.

The principal crops include Indian corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, buckwheat, rye and clover.

Other important staple crops are oats, rye and potatoes, of which the crops in 1907 were respectively 36,683,000 bushels, 961,000 bushels, and 7,3 08, 000 bushels.

There are no well-defined crop belts, the production of the various crops being general throughout the state, except in the case of potatoes, most of which are raised in the sandy regions of the north.

The principal crops are rye, the chief cereal grown, wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, beets and hops.

Maize and wheat are the chief cereals; potatoes, flax and vegetables are also produced.

Sugar and pineapples are the chief products for export, but sweet potatoes, yams, maize and guinea corn are grown for local consumption.

Potatoes are grown only by the Russians.

Some potatoes, turnips and beans are grown upon the farms; but the corned beef, bacon and groceries come from the cities.

Formerly gardening was of no importance, but considerable progress has been made in this branch in modern times, as also in the cultivation of potatoes and turnips.

Yams, taro and sweet potatoes constitute in some districts the main food of the people, while in others sago is the staple diet.

Two crops of potatoes may be grown on the same ground in one year, and the acreage of potatoes increased from 15,360 acres in 1899 to 27,000 acres in 1909, and the yield from 1,191,997 bushels to 1,890,000 bushels.

Up to 1911 the manufacture of ruin was the leading industry; in that year the factories were closed by Government decree, compensation being given to the factory owners and to the planters who grew sugar and sweet potatoes for the production of alcohol.

Tobacco, maize, sweet potatoes, yams, kava, taro, beans and pumpkins, are the principal crops.

The commerce of Boulogne consists chiefly in the importation of jute, wool, woven goods of silk and wool, skins, threads, coal, timber, and iron and steel, and the exportation of wine, woven goods, table fruit, potatoes and other vegetables, skins, motor-cars, forage and cement.

The fact that probably about 1,000,000 acres formerly under potatoes went out of cultivation owing to the potato disease in 1847 makes a comparison between the figures for crops in that year with present figures somewhat fallacious.

Up to 1861, as the area formerly under potatoes came back gradually into cultivation, the acreage under crops increased; but since that year, when the total crop area was 5,890,536 acres, there has been a steady and gradual decline, the area in 1905 having fallen to 4,656,227 acres.

The area, however, under green crops - potatoes, turnips, mangel-wurzel, beet, cabbage, &c., shows during the same period a much less marked decline - only some 300,000 acres.

There has been a very considerable decrease since about 1861 in the acreage under potatoes.

The total area under potatoes in 1905 was 616,755 acres as compared with 1,133,504 acres in 1861.

When Sir Stephen Rice (1637-1715), chief baron of the Irish exchequer, went to London in 1688 to urge the Catholic claims on James II., the hostile populace escorted him in mock state with potatoes stuck on poles.

The labour of one man could plant potatoes enough to feed forty, and they could neither be destroyed nor carried away easily.

Potatoes cannot be kept very long, but there was no attempt to keep them at all; they were left in the ground, and dug as required.

To meet the partial failure of the potatoes in Connaught and Donegal, very large sums were subscribed and administered by two committees, one under the duchess of Marlborough and the other under the lord mayor of Dublin.

Its main products are sheep - the celebrated Heidschnucken breed, - potatoes, bilberries, cranberries and honey.

Indian corn heads the list of cereals, but wheat, oats, rye and barley are also cultivated, besides hemp, flax, tobacco and large quantities of potatoes.

Oats, rye, wheat and potatoes are the chief crops.

The ravages of the rats have rendered impossible the growing of wheat; the wealth of the islanders now consists in their cattle, sheep, potatoes and apple and peach trees.

Galicia has the largest area under potatoes and legumes in the whole of Austria, and hemp, flax, tobacco and hops are of considerable importance.

Among the charitable institutions are the general hospitals (Harper, Grace and St Mary's); the Detroit Emergency, the Children's Free and the United States Marine hospitals; St Luke's hospital, church home, and orphanage; the House of Providence (a maternity hospital and infant asylum); the Woman's hospital and foundling's home; the Home for convalescent children, &c. In 1894 the mayor, Hazen Senter Pingree (1842-1901), instituted the practice of preparing, through municipal aid and supervision, large tracts of vacant land in and about the city for the growing of potatoes and other vegetables and then, in conjunction with the board of poor commissioners, assigning it in small lots to families of the unemployed, and furnishing them with seed for planting.

In the same decade Indian corn, potatoes and tobacco were the only staples whose acreage increased and the production of all cereals except Indian corn and buckwheat declined.

The chief crops are corn (especially wheat), fruit, vegetables, potatoes, beet, tobacco, flax, linseed and hops.

The inhabitants raise potatoes, oats, cattle and horses, and these, with dairy produce, form the bulk of the trade.

Destiny had a fist full of mashed potatoes, the white mash oozing from between her fingers.

Destiny whimpered for a few moments and then directed her attention to using the spoon to rearrange the potatoes on her plate.

She had nothing to say to the man, unless it was to condemn him for kidnapping her, wedding her against her will, and dropping her like a sack of potatoes for his sisters to retrain.

However, potatoes also contain a number of other inherent toxicants such as tropane alkaloids, terpenoids, saponins, protease inhibitors and lectins.

The potatoes were genetically modified to include a toxin - GNA lectin - found in snowdrops to make them resistant to potato aphids.

Have the beef bourguignon, and pay extra for a side order of potatoes au gratin.

We then dug up potatoes and picked broad beans for tea, but actually had pasta - LOL.

My complex carbs come from oats or sweet potatoes.

Add peeled and diced carrots and potatoes, chopped onions, salt, pepper, bay leaf, tomato sauce and parsley.

Intercropping is commonly practiced and a popular combination includes cassava, sweet potatoes, and beans.

These crops (e.g. cassava, sweet potatoes) need less inputs and less labor and are high in nutritional value.

They grow cauliflowers, our red and white cabbages and also potatoes.

We will cut the last cauliflower of the season this week and the barns are empty of old season potatoes.

Carrots and potatoes are still in store but winter cauliflower and spinach comes to an end.

My duck was more traditionally presented, nestling alongside dauphinoise potatoes and caramelized chicory.

Vitamin C - essential for health and can be found in lots of fruit and veg, especially citrus fruit, tomatoes and potatoes.

Fill jacket potatoes with moist fillings such as beans, low calorie coleslaw, cottage cheese or vegetable chili instead of butter or margarine.

Another experiment examined yield, vitamin and mineral content of organic and conventional potatoes and sweet corn over 3 years [4] .

And since when have the lazy couch potatoes of the Register been qualified to tell the world how to get fit?

To serve; slice the lamb and serve with the stuffed courgettes and dauphinoise potatoes.

Potato Sorting Back at the ranch, Val had more potatoes drying off on old shower curtains laid on the lawn.

And tonight I am making char-grilled lamb cutlets with cumin and thyme, plus sprouts, roast potatoes and glazed parsnips.

We had roast chicken, roasties, potatoes, peas and chocolate donuts.

Carbohydrates are not fattening, potatoes contain no fat at all!

Roast potatoes were crisp and squidgy but slightly burnt, while the braised fennel and asparagus had also been roughly torched.

I opted for pan fried sea bream with baby fennel, wild mushrooms and new potatoes and herb bread crumbs.

The main course of Angus beef filet and Sevruga caviar served with blinis and cream potatoes with olive oil is a gastronomic delight.

Spray Maincrop Potatoes against Blight with a copper based fungicide.

Serve with baked or mashed potatoes to soak up the strong rich gravy.

Roast Pork Lightly marinated roast, served with roast potatoes & vegetables in a wine gravy.

Good with whole green beans, grain mustard and mashed potatoes.

If your area is prone to blight, cut the haulm in later summer and burn it; lift the potatoes two weeks later.

The menu is spot on with Baltic herrings with new potatoes or glazed belly pork with chinese cabbage!

Neonate mice passively immunized by suckling from mice fed transgenic potatoes had less diarrhea than neonates unexposed to the vaccine [14] .

Norway also forbids the importation of fireworks, guns, drugs and potatoes.

Tip Add a dash of lemon juice to the cooking water to help preserve the color of the new potatoes.

Char Grilled Rump of Herb Fed Beef (serves 2-4) With char grilled vegetables, new potatoes and red onion marmalade thyme jus.

There is a variety of grills and roasts ranging from The Ivy hamburger to roast poulet des landes with truffle jus and dauphin potatoes.

Pusztai and his coworkers created GM potatoes expressing a snowdrop lectin (GNA) to increase resistance to insects and nematodes.

Effect of diets containing genetically modified potatoes expressing Galanthus nivalis lectin on rat small intestine.

Worse yet, rats fed plain potatoes sprinkled with snowdrop lectin did not show these effects.

Each recipient having a quarter a pound of meat, potatoes, plum pudding and a penny loaf.

The other main of roasted cod loin with new potatoes (£ 8.95) with watercress white wine sauce was to the same standard.

Wheat, oilseed rape and potatoes are the main arable crops, alongside forage maize frown for the 180 strong dairy herd.