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CROP LOSSES. 
the Allies could bring this about not later than the winter of 1916. 
Statistics of food production and food consumption in Germany and 
her apparent dependence on outside supplies for amounts variously 
given from 15 to 30 per cent. of her requirements were relied upon 
by economists in coming to this conclusion. For a time the blockade 
9 co Prate II. 
Potatoes growing on the stem above ground, as the result of an attack in. the roots by a __ 
fungus Rhizoctonia, a disease common in Australia and distributed by the seed tubers. 
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