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DOMESTIC NEWS

... decided step in the first instance. ha Tnu POTATO DIsEASE IN IRHLAND.-DUBLIN, Nov. 4.-It appears by the reports received this morning a (Wednesday), that notwithstanding the extreme fineness of 8 the weather, the potato disease is still extending in many TI ...

Published: Saturday 08 November 1845
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1164 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

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

... excellent, and only require fine weather in coe. order to be got well. baet POTATO DISEASE.-MIr. Wmln. Moulson, gardener, the Horsforth, writes- Fresh potatoes prodeced from the no: potato crab are certain to be free from the epidemic. I Sec have planted from ...

Published: Saturday 26 August 1854
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1270 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURAL NOTES

... work of ploughing has been much interfered with. WheAt sowing therefore has had to be deferred as a rule, In several cases potatoes have been harvested, and uin others the swedes and smangels have been cleared. ndil, however, we have rain, work by the plough ...

Published: Wednesday 29 October 1890
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 864 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURAL NOTES

... course of preparation for planting potatoes. Barley, Which paid so well last year, is being extensively sown this season, while the area devoted to potatoes will be considerably less than last year. The deadlock in toe potato trade continues. Many small ? ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1890
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1058 | Page: 6 | 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 

THE FLOODS AND THE HARVEST

... the potato crop has now made i's a opearauce in East Cork, where several fields of potatoes present the appearance of being at tacked with blight. The stalks affected are withering rapidly, and a strong odour prevails in the vicinity of the potato fields ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1891
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 735 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

HARVEST PROSPECTS IN IRELAND

... the potato crop would not prove so universal as 'it then threatened. Unfortunately, climatic conditions since then have so much favoured the development of 'disease: that the few sound tubers which remained are Almost entirely gone. The potatoes planted ...

Published: Tuesday 26 August 1890
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2652 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

... quoted at the same price. The T third Ws Rosbooiamu,'s potato-raiser, whirh wvas sn. vh ?? Bros. and Whitaker. of Wrexlarm sad a quoted at £215 16s. The same firta wrere also repre- seated hy another potato-raiser at 13 13s., and a t-hird, -with platform, at:S15 ...

Published: Wednesday 07 October 1896
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 591 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

FAILURE IN LONDON

... expressed its approval of the contemplated acquisition of land in Queen-street on which to erect a Town Hall, &c., PEAS AND POTATOES.-The potato and pea crops of the year are reported by correspondents of the Gardeeners' Xagzins to be scarcely satisfactory on ...

Published: Wednesday 30 August 1882
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1258 | Page: 4 | Tags: News