11 Jan 1845
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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1845
Page
1
Rates listed for single and multiple copies with annual and quarterly options. Advertising charged at 50 cents per square for first insertion and 23 cents per additional column inch. Twelve lines constitute a square. Frequent deductions offered for yearly subscriptions. no mail letters accepted without postage payment.
Dr Jos A Eve presides with Dr Daniel Hook as Leg WM and Hawkins Huff as VP Inaugural officers and managers listed including Haines Lallersted Dud Godby and Milledze.
A Maine Cultivator letters that grinding corncobs with corn to make cob meal has reduced feed waste and saved money. He reports three months of feeding cob meal to horses cattle hogs and calves and notes substantial savings from using farm produced feed.
An old medical notice promotes saleratus as a safer substitute for saltpetre in curing ham and shoulder meats. It explains dissolving saleratus in brine, compares it to saltpetre, and outlines a curing method with sugar or molasses, brine soaking for three to four weeks, and smoke drying in an airy house.
A subscriber asks which grain yields the best eggs. Fowls need a varied diet with wheat screenings as cheap feed, plus buckwheat barley oats and Indian corn occasionally. They should also receive animal food from slaughter offals, and if confined some cabbages potatoes and turnips provide useful nutrients.
In Paris Jack Marland transfers a self doubt into action by challenging a famed Paris duelist to a live duel. He insists on equal pistols, twenty paces, and no protections, but shoots only after declaring no danger to himself. Jack's calm defies fear and he withdraws after proving his courage, ending the contest with a bow and his claim that he is not a coward.
This passage extols George Washington as the embodiment of American virtue and national identity. It lauds his public virtues, the American origins of his life, and his role as a symbol of liberty and unity, invoking Webster's Bunker Hill Address to argue Washington as the supreme century character.
A fragmented passage extols sisterly love as heavenly and peaceful. It then shifts to a recipe for a cream based cake batter, instructing to mix milk cream saleratug flour into a smooth batter and bake in a buttered pan, noting it can be made without eggs.
The process describes improving butter by kneading a second time after a lapse of Q hours when salt has dissolved and the water-rich particles are removable. The instruction emphasizes completing moisture removal to enhance quality.
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