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HERTFORD GAOL

... about .20 dietl. The potatoes given to these pigs belonged to a crop of ten acres ea light aid'; and in harvesting them, a great many which had heen long exposed to the stu and weather were, of . caurge, Ibrown aside for pig food. Potatoes so expo~ed acquire ...

Published: Monday 08 December 1823
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1103 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

PROBABILITY OF A FAMINE THROUGHOUT EUROPE

... excursion on the potatoe: I wevnt into another district from that in which I had been before. Going along the road, I overtook a load of potatoes in a cart; I stopped and examined themr; I con- gratulated the driver of the cart that his potatoes were so safe ...

PROBABILITY OF A FAMINE THROUGHOUT EUROPE

... the potatoe, but could not learn from any one in- dividual that he had seen is either in his own potatoes, or those of any of his neighbours. Almost every person we spoke to heard that other persons in his neighbourhood found some of their potatoes rotten ...

THE CROPS, AND THEIR YIELD

... perceived that thserinter potatoes sevre suffering, a good many families laid in a small stock of summer potatoes, which the farmers guaranteed as being sound send fit to be kept for six or ten months; but although these potatoes were in excellent condition ...

IRELAND

... t THl POTATO CRop.-DUBLIN, April 2S.-The following fact is taken as a goed omen of the results of the next potato crop i Mr. Thomas Delany, the gardener of the Lady Hlorriet Kavausgh, at Berris, couity of Carlow, planted a quantity of potatoes last Novem- ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1847
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1193 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... wages of their labourers. -Tippercary Coa7stitution (Conservatirc paper.) Tsic 1NEW POTATO (CROP IN IRELAND.-Already there are some unfavonrable accounts of the new potato crop, and, although the majority of the reports are so far satisfactory, alam begins ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1846
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 617 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

CAPABILITIES OF THE LAND

... plant potatoes, aid I and though- I do not give half the average quantity ine, of duing usually allowed, I have ?? the most Iri1 abundant crops, and my potatoes have never been to taffected with the rot. In the autumn, while earthing the potatoes, I dig ...

THE FAMINE

... an undoubted average crop, and the growth of potatoes, which was spoken of with such de- spair, would turn out to be very different from the public expectation. The fact was that immense quantities of potatoes were kept back from the market last year until ...

THE FAMINE

... an undoubted average crop, and the growth of potatoes, which was spoken of with such de. spair, would turn out to be very different from the public expectation. The fact was that inmense quantities of potatoes were kept back from the market last year until ...

SUPPOSED DISCOVERY OF A COLORADO BEETLE IN ENGLAND

... collection and destruction of any sand, dirt, or other refuse imported with potatoes brought from the Unitedi States of America, Canada, or the German Empire, and detain the potatoes until such destruction has been effected. The second Order sets forth that ...

Published: Thursday 16 August 1877
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 475 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

FAMINE

... crop save potatoes. A potatoe crop is always the preparation for wheat. There is no such thing known as your clover lay, your fallow, or your turnip crop. Having said so much, we now pro- ceed to our sum of the loss contingent upon the potatoe failure ...