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HARVEST PROSPECTS

... where a second sovwing has been resorted to, but even in such instances fair produce may be looked for. Field potatoes are promising; garden potatoes are plentiful and good; indeed, all garden productions are exuberant. From the appearances of thse orchards ...

Published: Thursday 30 June 1870
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7164 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE HARVEST

... beans good, peas good, potatoes ail-iseased, green crops an average, and grass a large crop. re, Mr. T. Michelmore, Berry Pomeroy, states that wheat and of barley are an average, oats good crop, beans good, peas good, Er. potatoes average, green crops good ...

Published: Tuesday 01 September 1857
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1282 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE CROPS

... PaExZA~cc. -Wheat, barley, cud oats all promise well. Turnips: good crisp. Potatoes extensively diseased. POsrTsaeoaTrs.-Wheat above an aver~age, both in quality and quantity. Potatoes safe. Barley splendid- Beans andL peas good. ?? likely to prove 'unuder ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1856
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4100 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE WAR VICTIMS' FUND

... much inte. rest :-The providing of seed corn and potatoes next spring is a subject of the very highest importance. There are whole communes in which there is scarcely a handful of corn or a stone of potatoes left; and not only are the horses and oxen gone ...

Published: Thursday 24 November 1870
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 791 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... received endless repbtts. and communications of all sorts regarding theI potato crop in the West of Ireland. No positive or final conclusions can be formed until the potatoes are dug towards the end of this month; bnt all testimony o1 any value, and ...

Published: Thursday 09 October 1890
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 798 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE HARVEST

... better than was expected. The potato crop is aluost an entire failure in this district and large quantities of potatoes have been taken up which tare noteven fit for pigs. Many people complain that they L have not a sound potato in tho whole crop. The disease ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1872
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8454 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE WEATHER

... sent to hazvest work.'' TnE POTATO DISEASK.-The potato disease is spreading in the neighbourbood of Newmarket, ard it is now feared that two-thirds of this year's produce wiill prove Worthless. Even apparently sound potatoes have shown symptoms of decay ...

Published: Thursday 29 August 1872
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 541 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

IRISH EMIGRATION

... trowel on the end of a long stiel the labourer was earning his daily bread, digging up the potato crop, and I calculated that each 11a1 honestly cut every tenth potato for want of skill. Of course the tool was an improper one. But what I mean to infer from ...

Published: Wednesday 02 December 1863
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 862 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURAL REVIEW OF THE WEEK

... researches ine relatio to the ultiati';on Of potatoe He tried equal values of potatoes and --gels on different lots of ?? and sheep, giving the seame qunities of other food. Re found that about hsf the wfteght of potatoes to that of Mangels ontained a givem quantity ...

Published: Friday 23 November 1894
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2849 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LEEDS MOTET AND MADRIGAL SOCIETY

... duce, £3U8; Mr. J. Freeman, kealrirk, Peterborough, potatoes, &c., £26 IOs. 6id.; Mr. E. Beeley, BlBsDVry, pears, £8; Joseph Atdiew, Butterwick, potatoes, &c., £15 9s. 8d.; Mr. Iill, Newstead, potatoes, £46; Mr. I Dowse, Market Hasen, garden produce. £16- ...

Published: Tuesday 16 December 1884
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1304 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS

... strong and vigorous. Two or three potato is growers have ?? off the reappearance of the epi- . demic, and os exeeminatinse we found the leaves tainted with thick spots, indicating the first stage at which the potato disease first commuences. If is hoped ...

Published: Saturday 16 August 1856
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2219 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE HARVEST

... -a good co.,dition. Various are the ?? relatlve e& to the yield, but to all appearance there will be an acverage n crop. Potatoes are only ?? Gazette, tl -l veserday. s )f WAKviR9LD.-ThO barley which has been so long h lying about has been now to a great ...

Published: Saturday 13 October 1860
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1129 | Page: 8 | Tags: News