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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1843
Page
1
The notice states a weekly publication priced at one dollar per year with five dollars for six months and ten dollars for a twelve subscriber club. Ads are charged by the square with 60 cents for first insertion and 25 cents per continuation, plus discounts for semi monthly and yearly advertisers.
The Charleston Mercury reports on a trial at B. R. Smith of near the race-course showing corn yields with scientific cultivation. The field, deeply ploughed and manured, produced tall stems and healthy ears in rows, with expectations of 109 bushels per acre and potential further gains from closer planting. An accompanying experiment with calcareous manures will also be viewable at the same farm.
A Parisian correspondent reports a notable rise in French wheat yields over eight to ten years after farmers applied charcoal to soils. The substance, inexpensive in France, was spread as a soil amendment on formerly sterile fields, producing marked improvements in crop productivity.
A quoted writer advocates using coal dust as a soil amendment to improve wheat growth and prevent rust. He says lime-like application after rain yields permanent grass improvement and claims coal treatment outperforms farmyard manure, with rust issues absent in treated fields.
Mr Enoch Holt, a farmer on Ho Hill, states that in 1841 his four acres were set to potatoes with two acres treated with plaster and ashes, while two acres received none. The treated plots yielded two bushels more per hill in two paired rows, showing a clear advantage from plaster and ashes.
A late New Farmer's Journal note describes a method to protect turnips from the black worm. After failed experiments, the author used elder branches with foliage laid over the plants and sprinkled caustic lime or fresh stacked lime over the worms as they were swept to the ground. The tactic may also target cabbage worms and similar pests.
A Columbia Planter reader laments lack of farmer input and urges practitioners to share facts and experiments. He recounts his Bots in horses remedy scarifying the upper lip inner coat to provoke slight bleeding, claiming instant relief within five minutes. Craremont signs off.
A Memphis paper note recounts a reader experimenting with sweet potatoes as a coffee substitute. The piece describes preparing a medium potato, peeling it and slicing it for use, then consuming the result at breakfast and planning another try.
The article extols a potato coffee made by drying and grinding sweet potatoes, praising its strength, color, and taste as comparable to cocoa. It suggests households can make coffee cheaply and healthily, and offers rural readers practical tips on cabbage pest control and seed brining.
A first-person tale from Townsend Massachusetts recalls a mother’s call to arms in May 1776. A 15 year old narrator helps spin and weave pantaloons for a brother marching with fifteen soldiers as shortages strain families. The account highlights civilian resolve and early anti-British sentiment among women.
An elderly woman recalls weaving a garment from fleece in forty hours without modern aid to aid her brother and country. She describes carding washing sizing and weaving the cloth and finishing the garment before her brother’s departure. The tale reflects patriot resolve amid Burgoyne’s looming march through America.
Eyewitness accounts describe a shattered group of Russian survivors reaching the Saxon border after the Moscow retreat. A car carried grotesquely wounded soldiers while crowds, especially women, cried out in horror. A bridegroom among the dead laments as a young girl pleads, and a mad survivor bleeds with terror and broken features.
A lapwing pecks to obtain worms by tapping the earth with its feet as a boy does for fishing bait. After waiting the worm’s emergence, the bird pounces when the worm reappears, using ground signals to trigger the prey capture. The description appears in Jesse’s Gleanings a Natural History.
A narrator recounts a voyage tale about a disobedient French girl Lollette aboard a ship. When a Portuguese man-of-war floats nearby the girl touches it despite warnings and is stung, provoking pity from none and a moral lesson on sin and obedience. The piece ends urging children to seek the Saviour and pray.
A Seekonk Rhode Island preacher’s visitor describes a hen nursing and caring for a litter of four kittens giving them attention like her own brood. The account notes the hen’s protective behavior and the kittens’ dependence on the motherly hen when present.
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