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THE SLOW PROGRESS OF THE HARVEST

... of potatoes has elready commenced, both in this and the neighbouring county of Lancaster, where they ore still more eotensively cultivated, andll tle el oi appeasrs to us a fair average with little or uo disease. T'ie price of good sound potatoes in Leeds ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1845
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 975 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LEEDS MERCURY

... g system ; but certainly no man can have a .stronger objection to it. In Ireland thousands of poor peasaists live a upon potatoes excuasively, alid'are the most 'wrtched beings in exist- (ice, ?? would takel the trouble toanalize a pound of pitatoms ie ...

Published: Saturday 12 August 1826
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 670 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE NON-OPENING OF THE PORTS

... from this list that potatoes, oatmeal, bacon, and cheese are dearer than last year at this time ; but that flour, meat, and butter are about the same prices as last year. The only very important difference is in the price of potatoes. Oatmeal varies only ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1846
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1113 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE HARVEST

... pletely cleared, and the labours of the year crowned with an abundant produce. The turnip crop is excellent, and that of potatoes will be remarkably ?? Ga-cze. EAST RETFORD.-For the last fortnight the opera- tions of the harvest have proceeded in a way ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1837
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1151 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE CROPS

... in the potatoe; hut these are the ecial axetin, and the general expectation still is that the crop lcaeexcpto teof grain will he a full average, and that of roots will be very afor large. From Ireland and Scotland the accounts of the te of potato crop are ...

Published: Saturday 11 August 1849
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2251 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... wlvose house Lowry took lodgiings for e tile )ig'ilt. li e ine PoTATo DISELAS.-It is witls regret We st have to mention that disease his rapidly sanifested itself e- this vweek is the potato crop in this district. It was hoped Id that the season havittg ...

Published: Saturday 14 August 1847
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 927 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

OPENING THE PORTS FOR THE FREE ADMISSION OF PROVISIONS

... should not be to follow this example. It is lie on true that the deficiency of food arising from the failure of of' ietthe potato crop in Yorkshire and the other northern coun- aln its ties of England is happily, as yet,* much less alarming than an( is ...

Published: Saturday 01 November 1845
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 903 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... 14Mi, 1847, THE POTATO DISEASE. TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEicDS MERCURY. Bradford, Jan. 1irth, 12J47. a n ENTLBAstNx,-In the Leedsri lfcrcierp of the 16th ilsSt. is li aletterfrem Mr. Robisron, purporting to explain th9 cause of the t potato disease, and to ...

Published: Saturday 23 January 1847
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2191 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE WEATHER AND THE HARVEST

... patients 21 cured and'6 relieved. 2t -FAILURE oF TXIE' POTATO CROP IN THE NORTH- SC RincNG;-'We regretito find Itnat isa the neighbocsrhoods of Ig Mastlsam, Bedale, Liybunri, and Richmond, the potatoes are s perishing very rapidly. In many of lbs fields ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1846
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2280 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE SEASON AND THE CROPS

... markets in the agricultural disItricts of Bnglaxsd, good red wheat 'eis sellhig at .423. per quarter. Of the prospects of the potato crop, n_ we are still obliged to report unfavourably ; and to add that, nsot- w sitheitaadiog our hopes to: the contrary, ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1846
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3606 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

PROGRESS OF THE YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE RAILWAY BILLS IN PARLIAMENT

... prefer it to the potato, the enornous price of which, for some months past, had placed it beyond the reach of the labouring classes. One good effect of this change in the food of the humbler classes is a reduction in the price of potatoes, both for seed ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1846
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 986 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... IRELAND. Bn Ce- DESTRUCTION-OF THE POTATO CROP.. !y . . DUBLIN, AuGUsT n.. in It is quite useless now to mince the matter-the d potato crop, the staple food of millions of our population, is.. .. rottihgeverywhere, and ite'utter destruction appears. in- ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1846
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1057 | Page: 7 | Tags: News