Southern sheep farming urged to outgrow cotton profits
Georgia Gardener argues in Rural New Yorker that converting abandoned plantations in the South to large scale sheep raising could yield far higher profits than cotton. He envisions 40,000 acres stocked with sheep, managed by Black labor, and claims twenty years could generate millions, surpassing industry leaders.
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A.T. Stewart
Jacob Astor
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New Yorker
The Care for Gossip and Its Remedy
The essay denounces gossip as a personal vice born from malice or ignorance. It extols cultured conversation among neighbors, noting how educated youths discuss ideas and works rather than others’ private affairs. It warns gossip shatters church harmony and breeds lifelong enmity, urging the young to abandon it now.
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Sonny and the Pigs: A Ragged Exchange on Work
A rough dialogue shows a boy nicknamed Larry Lawrence claiming cleverness as he jokes about pig chores and farm tasks. The exchange touches on family, names, and rural chores with rustic humor in a dialect voice.
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