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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9104, 12 July 1888, Page 6

Everyone knows that for the past forty years the vegetable kingdom, especially the potato and vine, has been visited with serious and varied diseases. These are propagated, like all infections and epidemical diseases, by ever-existing organic germs, which have developed in an extraordinary manner under the influence of certain atmospheric perturbations. The cause of evil " has been erroneously sought in the mean or extreme temperature, But nothing conclusive has been arrived at in this respect. According to M. E. Renou, who has just treated the subject in the Annuaire- de la Soci6t6 M6t6rorologique, we must look to the nebulosity of tlie sky for the origin of agricultural disasters. From 1809 to 1816 this nebulosity stood at 65; that of 1871, a bad year, was 71, whereas the mean average is 62 or thereabouts. Between 1836 and 1845, the mean nebulosity reached 70; but the most remarkable - circumstance is the mean nebulosity of the month of July. During 120 years it was 52 ; from 1846 to 1884, also 52; from 1873 to 1886, 51; but the average for the six months of July, from 1840 to 1845, was 724, representing the ordinary hazy state of January. Therein, says M Renou, lies the true cause of parasitical diseases, attributable to the exceptional lack of sunshine during the principal summer months of those disastrous years.

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