05 May 1838
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1838
Page
1
The piece blends editorial opinion on national finances under Jackson, criticizing increased government spending and failed currency reform. It contrasts calls for retrenchment with alleged government excess, and recalls historical warnings about fiscal policy and monetary systems. It also reports a drastic criminal escape tale and agricultural notes urging Baden corn adoption.
Reports claim the Rowan Potatoe from France yields exceptional productivity and quality. John A. Thompson of Catskill, after two seasons of cultivation, asserts strong table suitability. Judge Buel’s 12 pounds sown produced nine bushels in one hill. weights reached 525 pounds in France, weighing as much as 1 pound per tuber.
Florence Ohio March 24 1838 notice from Russell Bronson promotes madder beet sugar and silk cultivation in Norwalk Huron Sandusky Berlin and several counties. He offers madder offsets with credit up to four years and argues a Madison County Iuron County Madder Beet Sugar and Silk Company could boost local resources. He seeks capitalists editors and meetings to discuss establishing plantations and sharing cultivation knowledge.
The Watertown Standard reports Massey’s seed corn treated with saltpetre outperforms untreated rows by over twentyfold and suffers far less worm damage. An apple tree sprinkled with plaster last spring may yield twenty bushels this season, suggesting plaster could prevent fruit blast. Bees urged as profitable farm stock with March removal and guidance on feeding and swarm management.
The article describes top feeding bees by boring a hole eight inches square in the hive and arranging a channel with wood supports to hold honey. A weight is placed on a board above the honey so bees can ascend eat and return to the comb with no stinging response.
The Massilon Gazette reprints John Wood of Bracken county Kentucky who, after volunteering in 1812 and fighting at the river Raisin, endured capture and a harrowing voyage across sea and empire. Press-ganged aboard Sea Horse he faced forced service, escape attempts, imprisonments, a mock trial in Nova Scotia, and a life sentence in the East Indies before returning to England and seeking help in New York. He left behind a wife and two children after twenty six years apart.
The steamship, arriving in 17 days from Cork, proved seaworthy in stormy weather and touted as a fine sea boat of 700 tons and 320 horsepower. The British Queen of 1900 tons follows. New Yorkers celebrate this sea progress while cautions on accidents remain. Interleaved is a Sir Walter Scott anecdote about rapid writing in fiftee n days and its distractions.
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