The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-07 00:00:00

POTATOES.

The potatoes in Devonshire are very indifferent,
and the farmers are complaining of a failure throughout the
county. The following are the prices and state of the crops
at the principal towns in the above county.
Exrriut.—The supply to-day (Saturday, Sept. 5) at mar-
ket wu large and of a middling sort, the general price being
ls. per score.
ASHBURTON.--The crop in this neighbourhood is icom-
plete failure ; they are all gone. The only supply is from
the early crops, and a constant sale is being effected at Bd.
and 10d. a score. Apples are also a failure. Turnips are
good, indeed never better. The wool trade is improving,
workmen being employed at Bd. to 84 per lb.
KINGSBRIDOE.—The crops in the South Him. are also a
complete failure. There is not a single spot in the whole
range that has a good crop.
FAIONTON.—At this place it is also a total failure, and the
farmers say the top of the plant appears first !affected, and
then it runs gradually down to the bulb.
Torras.—Around this place there is a good deal of rich
and heavy land, well ea/enlisted for growing potatoes, and
there is a general failure.

ISSIETON Al3o7.—Tha crops_ bare are not an hid as
many parts of the country, and the supply at market are
large, the farmers he;ng anxious to sell before their cries
become diseased. Selling prices ranged widely, being from
6d. to 16d. per 201 be.
arlfectirttay.—The crops here are a total failure. Turnips
e very good.
Tactstocx.—The potatoes here all teem affected more or
less, commencing with the top of the plant and withering
away. Prices are 9d. to ls. per stone of 14 lbs.
PtvatUellt.— Many of the farmers in this neighbourhood
have not obtained a bag of potatoes from a held : the plants
arc eompletely withered from top to bottom. Those hiought
to market are of a coarse and suspicious description, which
sell at 45. per bag. The only good sorts in the market are
these imported from Guernsey, which dress well. Apples
also very scarce.
A correspondent of a Cornish paper state, that the diseased
potato may be almost entirely preserved from the effect of
decomposition by using. pulverised peat or wood charcoal;
abundantly interposing it ?A-tweets the layer% and interstices
in pittirg or storing, the pit or store brine of course properly
ventilated. The action is thus:—the charcoal absorbs the
over-abundant moisture, the attendant of the diseaw, and
instantly corrects the putrescent matter which it la sly
contains; therefore effectually protecting the whole
front infection or contusion, or the evil action cf
heated moisture. As a manure for the potato, the
action of charcoal, when properly applied, it a. follows:
It absorbs from the seed (which, under cxis:ing c:rcum-
stances must be more or less diseased, no mutter how
attended to, or where procured in Europe) that over moisture
already named, instantly correctinc all putrescence, it
leaves the soil around uncontaminated, to act with purity
upon the growth, yielding to the pant abundahtly that of
which the disease has robbed it--carbon—and thus supplying
a nutriment which comttifuliottaltreaktieSB (its real malady)
essentially require,. Peat charcoel ran te had to any ex-
teat from lre.and, at a low price, and its value ac it manure
generally will be found of the highest con.ileration.

lIOPS.
Boaorm Mtrrtr, Tiro o'cick.—Afesq-23. Pat-
tenden and Smith, hop factors, report that th• supp:y of new
Hops continued to increase, but that the demand at prereut
is very limited, in consequence of consumers not has usg yet
come to market, the season for picking being untesuelly
early. In the course cf a week or ten days an extensive
trade is expected. At Worcester market on Saturday last
about 400 palrets were pitched, and 22.1 add, at prices
varying from ;,4s. to 955. per cwt. There are still groat com-
plaints of wei.thing light to the bushel. Duty, 190,000:.
Present prices as follows:
Mid and F.ast Kent; from ............. s.
0 to 7
Weald ot Rents
Rumex, team 4 10 to S 0
F,Lnshans.
igOtting KOMI{ 4 13 to 3 5
ToullagBuwea
Old Hop 2 0 to 4 IC.
FARNHAM, SErr. 7.—Many an acre of the mag-
nificent crop of this year's growth of Hops is already cleared
from the pine. The yield upon the whole will be great, but
not so much as at first anticipated ; the flower or burr being
unusually large deceived even the experienced. On picking
they fill the bushels fast, but weigh lighter than when the
fruit is small and close. Some years from .50 to 65 bushels
suffice to weigh an cwt.; this year, from some gardens, 70,
80, and 90 bushels are required for the same weight. We
heard of one garden producing I,2oo,several 1,000, and others
from eight to nine bushels. The average yield abnrt Farn-
ham will be at least 10 cwt. per acre, 4 cwt. mere than lest
year on the same breadth of land. Several growers discon-
tinued picking for two or three dayslast week, the yield being
of two growths ; it was found some required a few more day's
sun to ripen them, but by Friday all hands were put on again.
The edeshoots are more backward in their growth than those
at the top of the poke. In some there are complete hops,
in others the blowout isordy just formed. Mr. Payee, Messrs.
Stott its, Mr. Crump, Mr. Barrett, and others, have great
crops, though not so many cwt. per acre at at first computed,
and the well-known " Hart, or Heart grounds " are yielding
from 15 to 20 cwt. per acre. Sir Thomas Miller's gardens
are producing from 8 to 14 cwt. per acre. At Bentworth
about from 6 to 10 cwt. per acre will be the cid3.
Brcirtgv.—Mr. Trimmer has fine gardens, computed to
produce at least 15 cwt. to the acre ; some mom. Already
some pockets from his plantations are sent to London.
Panne.-80111C ate gathering 10 cwt., others not more
than 6 cwt. per acre. •They are here so bright in colour and
90 superior in aroma that no brimstone is used to add to the
appearance when drying..
HALE.—Mr.Acinall is gathering from 10 to 16: cwt. per
acre.

NV I N NELLV. Mr. Wm. Gunner's gardens are expected to
produce from ii to 8 pockets per acre. It is with great diffi-
culty pockets or bags can be had as fast us required. Mr.
Snelling has I'ILO Lorne • cry fine gardens.
ODlll474.—The gardens are prolific—expected to Steil
from 6to 8 pockets per acre. They began picking onWed-
nesday, and many are working night and day. The price
given is from 1 to 3d, per bushel.
A I.TON. —M r. I.ipPCOMbe, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Trimmer,
and others, arc highly buoy. A number of pockets already
fit for market and use ; many more might have twenyieked.
but for the want of kilns the pickers have to stop two hours
daily ; the yield being an large, they gather faster than can
be dried. The duty is still laid at from 185,000 to 190,000.
The Ilants concetion will he more than 12,010/. duty ' • some
even think it will reach the sum paid in 182(i, which then
ran up to 14,596/. The total duty in 1826 for hops grown is
England amounted to nearly 270,0001.