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THE HARVEST AND THE CROPS

... slights has e cherked the growth of tile winter potatoes, and rendered their topsI d aslblackasoripe beanstraw. WNe do notfiod that it lionin anydegreeI increased Ills mnurrain ?? thle diseased potatoes, or brought onI d the decay wherethe crops were ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 1845
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2476 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE SEED TIME

... gathering of the potatoes for the winter and spring supply has been more interrupted by rain. Wef see no reason to alter our estimate of the produce of this a root, which we have statedat 1-4th an average crop of sound c marketable potatoes in England, less ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1846
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 703 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE HARVEST AND THE CROPS

... pull'upp the stem from 'the Lear'. Potatoes, leavng~the roots in.the groud Thr ae two ] iter, mitigating' circumstances in the midst of this disaster:~ the Id ther line -is, th~at.' the' quantity of land cropt' witri Potatoes is cl r as 'much liess this year ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1847
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2119 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... ed or even Ikown. It was wheat, pota. 4 toes, cats-o-re, potatoes, wheat. The con-acre system spread all 0n tirough tho conatry,whilat the populatlion, Increasing and vegetating - on the potato, were-millions of them-solely dependent On tho rorst spezies ...

Published: Saturday 19 June 1847
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2410 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... leyginsle, apparently com- piled witl great care and founded oiu authenitic evi- denec, that whatever may be the proportion of the potato crop lost by disease, the total quantity of food in Ireland will he very mnuch greater than after thce harvest of 18IS6. In ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1848
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 718 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... - t! a Globe. B Tim HARVEST-NEw POTATO CROP.-Dubl1;n. ?? 10.-Generally the accounts of the appearance of the new potatoes are very favourable. It should be romem- bered, however, that last year the early-sown potatoes were a very fine, abundant, and healthy ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1846
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 775 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... I RE 1 LA N.D. THE POTATO CROP. Ih The Dublin Evening Post, of Tuesday, contains a number- :P of communications on the health of the potato, and that paper Le observes- Oa a comparison, it will be seen, that the good reports are imr 3S meanurably the ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1847
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 791 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE HARVEST

... Should we have a dry fortnight there will be as fine a b barley season as we have had for some years. The potatoe crops are abundant, and the potatoes are large, sound, and well fla- voured. The turnip fields, fur the firstttime for threeyears, are t one ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1837
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 627 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

STATE OF IRELAND

... at the best, we fear the potato crop will prove an almost total failure, and that the only average crops will be those of oats and barley. In spite of the warning of 1840, a larger breadthof land is nowplanted with potatoes than in any former year. This ...

Published: Saturday 26 August 1848
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 623 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MR. HAYWARD'S ATTACK ON THE LEEDS MAGISTRATES

... interest.t STEALING POTATOES.-On Tuesday, three young men, named John and Joseph Webster, (brothers) and a . ?? Blakey, were charged at the Court House, with t havig stolen a quantity of potatoes, the property of Mr. I John Philips, potatoe dealer. It appeared ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1839
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1365 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LEEDS:

... Magistrate of the West Riding o of the county of York. 2 THE POTATO RoT.-About a fortnight ago we stated in the Mercury the result of our inquiries as to the I E. extent of the disease in potatoes planted in this neighbour- hood. It had been stated to us ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1849
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1356 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... the same journal d. to eay that the potato failure of tlis year is likely to be rencseed in Use ad ncrx, and adduces a trial made by himself in proof of this arnticipa- tb tion. ' I planted, he says, - some potatoes last November in el lazy bsedo-the ...

Published: Saturday 14 February 1846
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 957 | Page: 8 | Tags: News