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Cc S McCafberty
Excardia
Successful Experiment in Corn Planting at B R Smith Farm
A Charleston Mercury report details B R Smith near the race-course showing high corn yields through scientific culture. The field, once poor, was thoroughly ploughed and manured, planted in double rows eighteen inches apart, with limited hoeing and careful cultivation. Observers expect about 109 bushels per acre and note calcareous manures also tested on the same farm.
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B. R. Smith
Smith
Theoil
Mel Smith
Acre
Charcoal as a Fertilizer in French Wheat Soils
A French practice uses charcoal as a fertilizer to boost wheat yields. A New Farmer's Journal correspondent notes central department farms improved after several years of light charcoal applications, transforming previously sterile lands into productive fields.
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France
New Farmer’s Journal
Return of the Experiment on Wheat and Charcoal
The writer notes that applying coal to soil improves wheat and grass, calling the cost small for lasting benefits. He claims coal prevents rust in wheat, citing two adjoining fields where one treated with coal remained healthy while the other with dung suffered rust. The method involves paled charcoal sown after rain on damp days.
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England
Buffalo Com. Adv
Plaster and Ashes Increase Potato Yield Claim
A farmer, Mr Enoch Holt of Ho Hill town, reports that in 1841 four acres were plowed for potatoes with two acres by himself and two by a neighbor. Holt used plaster and ashes on his hills, yielding two bushels per two hills compared with the neighbor’s plot, as evidenced by side by side digging on the same day.
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Enoch Holt
Ho ‘Hill
Hill
N. H
Turnip Worm Suppression by Elder Boughs and Lime
A New Farmer's Journal item describes a method to save turnips from the black worm. After failed trials, the author reports success using large elder boughs with foliage laid over the crop and then sprinkling caustic lime over the worms as they are swept to the ground. The note suggests cabbage worms and similar pests might be destroyed similarly.
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Black Palmer
New Farmer’s Journal
Planter readers urged to share practical farming knowledge
A Columbia Planter subscriber criticizes farmers for not contributing their know how to the paper. He shares a horse Bots remedy via lip scarification and notes rapid relief, promising to write again as Craremont.
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Shakspeare
Craremont
Sweet Potato Coffee Experiment Reported in Memphis Paper
The author describes an experiment using a medium sweet potato cut into slices and prepared for breakfast as a substitute for coffee. The writer notes having drunk the “proceeds” at breakfast and hopes to repeat the morning beverage.
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Memphis
Potato coffee and garden pest tips in a old paper column
An old column describes making potato coffee by drying and grinding potatoes, claiming a strong taste close to cocoa and cheaper healthful use for poor households. It also gives advice to kill white worm in cabbage with nitrate of soda after rain and brining seeds to deter pests.
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Havana
North
South
Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Roanoke
Picayune
IV. O. Crescent
Mr.Mure
England
A Revolutionary Tale of a Mother's Strength and Looms
In Townsend Massachusetts during late May 1776 a family prepares for a young brother's marching with fifteen soldiers. A mother weeps yet inspires action while a girl and siblings spin and weave pantaloons from wool and fleece, using improvised tools and home crafts to clothe a patriot.
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Townsend
Mass
John
Boston
Massachusetts Assembly
Mother
Luther
Woman’s Loom and War-Time Spirit at Burgoyne Sacking
A Greenfield Mercury excerpt recalls a determined woman who stitched cloth under pressure to aid soldiers. She describes spinning, carding, weaving, and finishing a garment in forty hours without aid, saying she served her country and relieved a mother while preparing for her brother. The piece links her effort to Burgoyne’s campaign.
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Geri
Stark
Burgoyne
Heart of America 1
Greenfield Mercury
Arrival of Napoleonic Remnant at Dresden Pits Horrors of War
Eyewitness account describes a remnant of Napoleon’s Russia campaign arriving at Dresden. Soldiers are degraded by frost and wounds amid a sorrowful scene at the Linze, a mad survivor grimly grins while a distraught bride seeks her betrothed, provoking angry crowds and fearful language from onlookers. Supporting note on thrush foraging behavior concludes the fragment.
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Dresden
Russia
Henry
Germany
Watched Lapwing Seeks Worms by Ground Stimulus
In a natural history note from Jesse's Gleanings a Natural History, a lapwing lures worms by stamping and tapping the ground with its feet similar to boys fishing. The bird waits at its hole, alarmed by movement, then seizes the worm when it appears as prey.
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Jesse
Little Lollette and the sting of disobedience aboard
An old tale recounts a French girl named Lollette on a ship who touches a Portuguese man of war and endures a painful sting. The narrator uses the incident to teach children that sin bites like a serpent and urges prayer for forgiveness.
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Lollette
Abbot
France
Sin
David
Hen and Kittens Audacious Animal Bond
A Seekonk Rhode Island pastor recounts a hen tending a litter of four kittens with identical care. The kittens suckle from the hen when she is present. the mother cat attempts to claimed the kittens in her absence. The tale blends curious animal kinship with fragments on numbers and a distant Civil War era statistic about 183 fatalities and 1842.
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Barney
Congregational Church
Seekonk
R. I
Puss
Jand
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