The Weather and the Crops

1856

Wood engraving

Punch (16 August 1856)

“Well, neighbour, we’ve had peace' and now there is every prospect of plenty. Misfortunes never come single.” — an example how farmers and landowners viewed the price of grain far differently than did the consuming public, especially urban workers.

Image and text from an Internet Archive online version of a copy of in the University of Toronto Library. Text and formating by George P. Landow

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