Answer the following briefly:

Contrast the quality of the harvest being described here.

• by machine

• by hand

• during the famine

• by Machine The crop obtained by the use of machine is plenty, and involves back-breaking work to collect. The working of the machine is a bit haphazard, and throws up mud and root here and there. But the workers are grateful for the present crop, as they remember the fear and hunger that had spread due to the blighted crops of 1845.

• by hand - The crop obtained through this method is seen as the best crop, flint white and purple, as the farmers personally use their hands to toil, and the earth as a reward gives them a clean-birthed crop, that tastes of ground and root.

• during the famine - The crop during the famine was blighted, which made them inedible and like stone. It killed anyone who ate them, and as a result the entire produce went to waste.