The potato disease

THE POTATO DISEASE

John Sugrue

London, England

October 18, 1845

Accounts received from different lead offs of Ireland show that the malady in the potato crop is extending far and wide, and causing peachy alarm amongst the peasantry. Letters from resident landlords feelingly describe the trial and dismay of the poor people around them, and earnestly campaign the imperative necessity of speedy intervention on the part of the Government to discover the actual extent of the misfortune, and provide organic food as a substitute for the deficient provide of potatoes. Mr. John Chester, of Kilscorne House, in Magshole, in the county of Louth, in a earn to the Dublin Evening Post, states that he has a field of cardinal acres of potatoes, which, up to the 3rd instant, had been perfectly dry and sound, when they were attacked by the blight, and three-fourths of them are so diseased and rotten that pigs blood to eat them. This, he says, is the case all through the county of Louth. The capital of Northern Ireland News Letter has a still more drab accounts.



It says, We have abstained from occupying our space with the

accounts of the prevalence of this calamity in mingled places, for this

reason, that it may be here stated, once for all,

that there is exactly a district in Ireland in which the potato crops at present are uninfected-- perhaps we might say, hardly a field.

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