San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-08
CROPS HAVE BEEN RUINED
THROUGHOUT rHE FARM
ING DISTRICT
Landlords Fearing The Famine, Are
Pressing Tenants For Rents
And The Prospects For
The Winter Are Very
Alarming,

the World from London says:
A panic is spreading throughout
Ireland over the terrible prospect of
the apparently complete failure of the
harvest, Reports from Ito parish
priests from counties Clare, Cork, Ker-
ry, Limmerick Tipperary, Antrim, Ar
magh, Cavan, cry, Donegal, Down
Fermanagh, Monaghan and Tyrone,
all tell the same piteous story of
ruined crops, impending restitution
and famine. Blight has everywhere
wholly or mainly destroyed potatoes,
while oats, which is the most essential
crop TO an Irish farmer, have been
battered down by incessant rains and
practically destroyed.
From Connemara county, Galway,
comes this h~eartrending tale:
The late long run of harsh weather
leaves scarcely a vistage of hope to
the poor Connemara cotters. The
three principal crops raised in this To-
cality, hay, oats, and potatoes, are
virtually ruined, the latter TO an
alarming extent. 1t is comon observa-
tion around Clifden that it is a full
days work for a man to dig one meal
Iof potatoes for his family, and even
then they can be scarcely eaten"
From MalOw, county of Cork, situ-
ated in the rich streak of land kown
as Golden Vein," the report is:
The oat crop, which is the main de-
pendence of a vast majority of the
farmers is entirely unfit for market
ing purposes. Acres + still seen
spread out in sheaf and cannot be
bound or stalked.
"The crop is reduced TO a condition
that fits only for the m heap.
The potatOe crop is counted altogether
a failure"
A dispatch from West Meath says:
'Incessant rains for the past month
have completely destroyed crops Of
every description. What were a
month ago smiling cheerful-looking
fields are today blighted and ruined.
The potatoe crop is bad, ven to rot
.tenness. Oats and kindred crops are
in such a wretched way that no yield
can be expected from them"
From Mary Borough, Queens cOun-
ty. a correspondent states:
''In this county there is a general
unanimity of opinion that since the
famine year of AZ the prospect for
agricultural community was never as
bad as today. This description does
not refer to any particular locality,
but to every district in the county.
The crop that has suffered most is the
potatoe, of which there will be practi-
cally none. 1t is generally believed
that before the new year dawns there
will be no potatoes fit to eat in he
county. Next to potatoes oats are in
a very bad condition"
A correspondent at Ballygawley,
Tyrone, says:
"The ground where potatoes have
been, planted in drills resembles a bit
of barren waste that had been lying
over for some time with the intention
of being ploughed in the autumn.
Flax is almost unknown. During the
week enormou floods have been
sveepine the county. Tons of hay, |
o add further to the misery, have been
carried arway by foundations
A castlebar telegram says:
Torrents of rain have prevailed here
during the past three days almost con-
.inuosly. and the country is in a most
l~eDlOrable c0ndltlOn. LdHuS are noou
I'd, potatoes and oats destroyed and
hay is rottening. No efforts car be
made to save the crops from destruc-
ion owing to the deluge of rain day
lfteF day. The farmers are ruined.
Blight is making rapid inroads on the
crop in consequence of the IN
.essant rain. Reports from all quart
RS confirm the belief that a famine
will result this winter.
A waterford correspondent says:
at is no exageration to say that
for harvest were hardly
darker or sadder than at pres
in several parts Of the county.
'orn. now a month cut. is still I'M
tackled. on account Of rain. Very
new grain has been marketed
ct. and buyers expect difficulty in