The Fireside: Curious Screw Craft and Street Talk
A child disassembles and reassembles a hearth brush trying to screw its handle in the correct way. The piece reflects on human curiosity and effort. It then critiques street talk and urges gentler speech, contrasting industrious perseverance with vulgarity. The column closes with a note on farmers chopping cotton in cold weather, fearing troubled crops.
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Strawberries and silos and farm storage notes
A Farmers' Review correspondent reports on drying apples in sand to keep them crisp into late spring and using the same sand for potatoes. Strawberry runners run in one direction. arranging beds helps. A farmer builds a simple silo from a hogshead, presses fodder with a jack screw, and feeds ensilage to a cow, praising the method.
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