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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1905
Page
2
Georgia farmer Br. Redding urges abandoned one horse gear, adopting two horse plows for thorough soil turning, terracing to stop erosion, and a crop rotation plan. He cites fall plowing windows around mid October, then harrowing, and warns against leaving cotton stubble bare.
Farm correspondence reports cattle deaths in the mountains of northeast Georgia, notably Union and Fannin counties, with milk sickness blamed on arsenic in drinking water. The note cites past outbreaks, fencing to restrict cattle access, and references to Montgomery County Virginia where arsenic was found in water.
Henry C. Hicks of Dayton Ohio reports health improvement after using Smith's Blood Syrup and encloses one dollar for another bottle, asking for prompt shipment back to Ohio.
The article explains the US cotton grading system from full grades like fair and middling to the lowest ordinary. It details half and quarter grades with prefixes strict fully and barely for each grade, notes the existence of 26 possible subgrades, and mentions standard samples at the New York cotton exchange.
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