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Weekly Chronicle

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London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Nov 29, 1845

Page

3

Potatoes Blight Ravages Dorset and Wiltshire Crops

Victorian readers learn of a widespread potato blight across Dorset, Wiltshire, and surrounding counties. Farmers report heavy losses from early September onward, with many fields ruined, yields halved, and pigs fed on boiled diseased tubers. Witnesses describe soil types, frost timing, and possible atmospheric causes, while officials note alarming mortality and public health concerns.

Eee ET Fe Middleast Hospital William Lambert Henry Lambiert Vhp Camber William Henry Corfe Wakley W. Corfe John Lambert Poistoning Harrison Annals of Medicine Francis Amelia Lambert Nurge Wingrove Wwhetstone Park Lincoln’s Inn-Fielde Are. Wingrove John Che Che Coroner, Mr. Corfe Mr. Corfe Charlotte [Ambert Edland Guilford Street Russell Square Witceces Wiegrave Frances Lambert Lincoln's Innields Lundop Lincoln's Ion Fields Mr.Corfe Cumberland Market Whetatone Park Her Majesty’s Commissioners of Sewers Lincoln's Inn Fields Lambert Koford Tolbar Blandford Dorsetshire Avila Storminster Shilligaton Blanaford Lord Rivers George Stephane Mr. Stone Quantty Lord Portman Mr. Goodfellow Joseph Adame Josiah Tight Fiddleford Philip Adams Tam Hamoon John Monk Henry Osmond Sturminster Hinton St. Mary John Brookway Shaftesbury William Foot Mollene William Crew Thomas Haines Hinton St Marr Hinton R. William Knot Yarlington Fair

Buckland Urges Peas and Beans as Potato Substitutes

Dr Buckland before the Ashmolean Society argues potatoes mostly supply water and charcoal, while oats peas and beans provide muscle-building nutrients. He endorses turnips field roots and peas broth as famine substitutes and urges laborers to stock peas beans barley oats and garden vegetables to avert hunger next year.

Buckland Ashmolean Society Oxford Liebeg Tequisble Dublin Liverpool Ireland England O Hollabed Patnage Peison Indies Monasteries Tuck Axbridge Symons Sepuya Tutbury Lancashire John Franklin Europe Hampshire Scotland Germany

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