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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1874
Page
4
An excerpt argues Southern farmers should recycle forest litter as manure, showing experiments with pine straw, oak leaves, rotten straw, and cotton seed. It warns against clearing forests and urges prudent soil enrichment to restore fertility, criticizing current labor and land use.
The passage laments the present regime's failure to improve farms and notes slavery’s evils without its benefits. It argues workers are demoralized as whites share in wasteful neglect, while farmers cry for money and sell cotton at ruinous prices to fund plantation needs, urging decisive reform.
The article explains that chicks hatch with outside aid, detailing how a hen helps break the shell and the chick emerges dry under the hen's warmth. It notes differences in beak hooks between hens and cocks and mentions regional variation in hatching by males. It then gives a recipe for Goop Yeast using hops, potatoes, sugar, and salt, with instructions to ferment, store, and use in bread making, including drying into yeast cakes for long storage.
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