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THERE seems little doubt that the present season will prove one of the most unfavourable within this generation as regards the yield of the fruits of the earth. The steady rise in the price of corn indicates a widely-spread fear that the harvest will turn out to be considerably below the average, both in quantity and quality. The crop of fruits of nearly every kind may be described as all but a complete failure. The potatoes are estimated as irredeemably bad, to the extent of three-fourths of the yield. Hops are in many parts scarcely worth the pulling. The grass and root-crops have alone benefited by the wet and ungenial summer. The cattle are, moreover, suffering from the foot-and-mouth disease on almost every farm in some counties, and we hear of the outbreak of rinderpest in Yorkshire.
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The Potato Disease . Nature 6, 389–390 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/006389a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/006389a0