OCR Text |
Show Ikei.and is aaiJ to bo threatened with anothei famine by the failure of the potato crop. Last year ihe potatoes pota-toes were nhunft a total load, the coat of pUntiug iu many cases hcing ten liiius as much ita the yield. This season a blight haa occurred, aud it ia thought that less than a fifth of an average crop will be gathered. The terriblo ae.ieou of 1847, when half a million people died from the f.miiue in Ireland, could hardly be duplicated in these days, though much bu flaring may result from a short pjUto crop. |