Washington the first farmer of America and his soil work
The piece portrays George Washington as America's first scientific agriculturist who transformed Mount Vernon into a model farm. It surveys his crop rotation experiments with fertilizers, clover and alfalfa, grain and livestock breeding, and his push for agricultural education and machinery. It notes wealth from land, mills, and a vision for a Board of Agriculture.
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Potomac
George Washington
Arthur Young
Harry” Lee
Washington
America
Virginia
United States
Mount Vernon
Ohio
Martha Custis
State Agricultural College
Experiment Station
England
Annals of Agriculture
John Carlyle
Robert Adams
Alexandria
J. Christian Bay
John Crerar Library of
Chicago
Mr. Bay
Tinental Army
Noah Webster
Webster
Timothy
Switzerland
South Africa
Siberia
Winlaw
Baron Poelnitz
New York City
William Booker
Booker
Middle West Soil Improvement Committee
Congress
Board of Agriculture
Washingtons 1793 16 sided barn and humor
The piece recounts George Washingtons 1793 barn built on a farm requiring 140000 bricks and featuring a 30 foot square threshing floor with a grain separation method using floor board interstices. It notes Washington’s humorous warm winter wood trick and stresses his soil conservation foresight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Four Dressing Table Skirt Patterns from The Sewing Circle
Clear directions for four dressing table skirts with economical yardages and adaptation notes. Pattern 6459 includes materials, scallop and rounded edge patterns, and instructions to make four dressing tables. Send 15 cents for pattern 6459 to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. New York.
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Sewing Circle
Household Arts Dept
W. 14Th St
New York
N. Y
Wise and Otherwise Logic Surprises in Odds and Ends
A collection of witticisms on human folly and marriage misdirection. Jokes touch on perfection, bargaining, illness, and show business clichés. Read as light, period humor with sharp one liners and social observations from a vintage voice.
Mental Laws and the Power of Thought
The passage argues that poverty illness and unhappiness stem from ignorance of mental laws and the failure to recognize how thought shapes life. It emphasizes conscious mental exercises as a remedy to widespread discontent.
Wise man rejoices in what he has not what he lacks
A succinct proverb attributed to Epicurus, highlighting contentment with present possessions rather than sorrow for what is missing. The line emphasizes gratitude and inner peace over desire.
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Epicurus
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Elmo Scott Watson
Western Newspaper Union
Francis Jukes
Alexander Robertson
William L
Atlantic States
Alger
York
Horte Alger
Frank Conrad
The
American Institute
Westinghouse Company
Pittsburgh
Conrad
Wilkinsburg
Naval Station
Arlington
John Coleman
Coleman
Kdka Harding
University of Pittsburgh
Liebman
Edison
John Scott
Lamme
General Trujillo
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Pittsburgh, Crawfords
Santo Domingo
Hitler
Germany
Poland
Marines
Velasquez
Trujillo
Comity
Lemuel F. Parton
Consolidated Features
WNU
Marjorie
Luden
Luden’s
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