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...Italy potatoes were doing better even than before the war and wheat was pretty good. In France, farmers expected the best crops since before the war. In Germany it looked as if the 1946 harvest would be little better than last year's. Rationing will continue on the present minimum subsistence level...
Drowned Hopes. Ireland barely escaped famine. Britain's crops, if not her worst, were the most difficult to harvest within living memory. Prayers for sunshine went unanswered. England's' wheat was a rain-beaten tangle. Under the headline "The Afflictions of Thy People," a London Daily Express bulletin read like a litany of the counties, intoned over drowned hopes: "Norfolk: . . . Corn in stook too wet to be carted. Hopes run low. Devon: Crops ruined; corn sprouting. Somerset: Corn lands waterlogged. . . . Hertfordshire: Fields are as squelching as in winter. . . . Surrey: Position serious. Crops deteriorating daily. . . . Suffolk: No work...
July 12: The Soviet harvest for 1946, said Radio Moscow, is far in excess of last year...
...artificial frost for potatoes. When late potatoes reach maturity, farmers pray for frost to kill the vines. If it does not come, a lot of evils may. Potatoes grow lopsided, bumpy. Juicy vines clog the digging machinery, and blight spores from their still green leaves may infect the harvest...
...scientists cultured the smuts, rusts and blights that strike down the farmer's crops. They studied more than 1,000 crop-killing chemicals. Some of them, sprayed from the air "in infinitesimal dilution," allowed the crops to grow for a while, apparently healthy, but they yielded no harvest. In biological war, slow hunger would mop up the field behind quick death by pestilence...