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rcsowing was requisite, and there was from no crop to half a crop of 

 Swedes; and at seven of these same farms the Turnips failed. Loss, 

 where estimated, 3 and 5 per acre. 



In Hants severe injury and three sowings are mentioned in various 

 localities, with an estimate from one of loss of 2 10s. per acre. In 

 the Isle of Wight the resown plant came so late as "practically to 

 give no crop," and this was estimated to be the case on nine-tenths of 

 the island. In Dorset, it is noted, "people sowed Swedes three times 

 over, and had to give them up after all." In Somerset, at the locality 

 noted, there were four successive sowings of Eape and Turnips. 



In Herefordshire, the only county of which there is a fairly com- 

 plete series of returns, we find that notes from localities in thirty-eight 

 parishes, occupying an area of seven miles radius round Leominster, 

 show that at twenty-four of these some proportion (less or more noted 

 on the Herefordshire tables appended) had to be resown once; at 

 twelve others some proportion twice, thrice, or more. With regard to 

 six larger districts of the county lying round Leintwardine, Ross, 

 Tarrington, Eardisley, Pencombe, and Brockhampton, in one district 

 all the early Swedes were damaged, and nearly all had to be resown ; 

 in another it is estimated that three-quarters of the Turnip acreage of 

 the neighbourhood was damaged by " fly," and about one -half resown, 

 in many instances resown twice ; in another the first sowing of Swedes 

 was wholly damaged throughout the district, and a large area of the 

 second sowing; and in another it is returned "all the Swede crop 

 damaged and almost the whole of it resown, some of it twice." 

 Regarding the two remaining districts, in that of Pennoxstone (Ross) 

 the district suffered much, and many crops had to be resown second 

 and third times ; and in that of Brockhampton, by Bromyard, resowing 

 took place twice in several cases, and in some three times. 



From Derby it is reported that " most farmers had to sow twice, 

 and not a few even a third time, so that the crop throughout the 

 Midland Counties was late. 



In Scotland the visitation was worst in the south ; scarcely a 

 Turnip field is stated to have escaped in the counties of Kirkcudbright 

 and Dumfries, and resowings were requisite in many cases twice, in 

 some a third time. In Berwickshire there was great destruction, and 

 resowings requisite, sometimes up to three times ; and from inquiry of 

 seedsmen at Haddington, and adjacent counties, it appears one-half 

 more seed was purchased than the usual supply. 



The direct amount of money loss on unreturned outlay for seed 

 and resowings in the districts known to have been attacked amounts 

 to an enormous sum, and this can be fairly well estimated ; but beyond 

 this there is still a heavy loss to be considered on lesser value of the 

 White Turnip than the Swede crop, and also on the deficiency of the 



