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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1843
Page
1
The Washingtonian will be published every Saturday morning by Sambel McCafferty at one dollar per year in advance. Subscriptions for clubs at ten dollars for twelve subscribers. Advertisements priced by size and frequency with a ten percent discount for regular advertisers.
A historical note on ruta bagas grown near Wego on Geo J Pumpenty’s farm in 1842. The yield was about 1 375 bushels per acre with 79 100ths acre cultivated. Harvest produced 58 cart loads totaling 1 063 bushels after early frost delayed work.
The article explains that potatoes with low carbon content are nutritionally deficient and unhealthy. It notes that light and heat are essential for proper carbon formation, and that orchard-grown potatoes are deprived of light because tree canopies intercept it, producing watery, unhealthy tubers.
A garden remedy details using common soap to kill borers in white ash trees. Soap rubbed into wounds dissolves during rain, forcing worms out and killing them. Also notes salt and ash as soil fertilizers and cautions on land leveling and water run-off affecting soil integrity.
The plan aims to grade the rows to a slope that passes water without flooding while avoiding excessive wash. Water can exit at row ends through fences, be collected in a ditch, or discharged from each row separately. Southern Agriculturist.
An 19th century farmer prescribes copperas dissolved in water mixed with meat to treat kidney worms in hogs. He notes that a full cure may require six to eight doses after a hog has weakened and dragged its hind parts, and adds that sulphur can help shed lice and can be given safely when danger is suspected.
D. G. Weems in Tracey’s Landing Maryland critiques credit practices among farmers. He argues slow payment harms both farmers and merchants, noting rare punctuality and high risk of foreclosures. He urges cash purchases to save costs and protect mutual interests.
A detailed plan for a National Monument to George Washington in New York describes a three section Gothic Pentagon structure with rotundas, buttresses, and towers. It includes a grand Rotunda to hold Washington's statue, statues of generals, and niches for the signers of the Declaration. The design features galleries, stained glass, and a 194 foot high zinc Pentagon pinnacle reachable by a wrought iron spiral stair.
A fragmentary Dumfries Courier item describes a monument plan with tall platforms and observatories, then recounts a remarkable somnambulism incident in which a boy, in sleep, climbs to a gull nest, captures a chick, and returns to bed unscathed, later recalling the feat. The boy has prior injuries from a similar episode.
The Hudson Columbian recounts a rare copper piece struck during Washington's presidency. It shows Washington with the inscription Washington President 1791 on one side and an eagle with eight stars and one cent on the reverse. Washington ordered the mill that produced it destroyed and the pieces suppressed, preferring the Liberty device on American coins.
A reflective piece contrasts a daughter's steady, loving presence with a son's wanderings. It emphasizes a daughter's role as the bright, enduring light of the parental home, linking her influence to the father’s happiness and emotional shelter.
The passage extols a daughter's virtues as the source of a father's happiness and a mother's comfort. It urges filial devotion, urges ambition beyond natural affection, and warns that true love grows through approval of worthy conduct and parental sacrifice. It laments daughters' blindness to happiness tied to dutiful fidelity.
A farmer gives five peaches to his family. The eldest savors prudence and plans a harvest, the youngest hoards none, the second sells his peach for twelve more, and Edmund shares his fruit with a feverish neighbor. Edmund is praised for selfless care. a tearful mother blesses him.
An old Connecticut farmer asks a pastor if the sun moving around the earth fits scripture. The doctor replies that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still and it did. The farmer accepts the sun moved again, leaving the question of happiness tied to Nome.
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