Punch,  43 (1862), 115.

The Health of the Potatoes

Anon

Genre:

Reportage, Drollery

Subjects:

Agriculture, Disease


    Claims that reports of the reappearance of 'the Potato Disease' are exaggerated, and presents an extract from 'a correspondent' called 'A Tuber', who insists that the disease is only a mild form of ophthalmia or 'all my eye'.



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