19 May 1838
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1838
Page
1
Edited and published weekly by M. Gest outlines price and renewal terms. Subscriptions cost two dollars per year in advance or within sixty days, two fifty within the year, and five dollars after the year ends. No paper issued to unpaid accounts. discontinuation requires orders. failure to discontinue ends as a new engagement.
The piece recalls early civic life in Carlisle Pennsylvania during the 1790s partisan divide between federalists and anti federalists, detailing Independence Day celebrations, military parades, whiskey rebellion events, key figures like Washington Hamilton and Lee, and the social rise and fall themes of the era.
The sugar beet, valued for sugar and stock feed, attracts national attention with a $100,000 local sugar beet venture. Farmers in the Miami region, spurred by Lot Pugh, look to beets as a key forage and look to eastern cultivation guidance. The letter notes planting in May and June, soil prep, seed spacing, and early harvest cues. Also included are gruesome accounts of a preacher’s sermon and a brutal Indian attack on a mail carrier near Fort King, with details of mutilation and death.
A Buckeye Plow Boy column extols deep plowing for stable soils, arguing one deep pass yields better crops, absorbs rain, preserves moisture in drought, and buries weeds. It praises Newell’s plows, urges choosing strong equipment, and notes deep plowing can restore productivity in clay soils and when green manures are turned under.
A farmer compares ruta baga with sugar beet and mangel wurtzel noting ruta baga requires fewer hoeings, matures after frost, and produces tops valuable for feeding milk-raising cows. He shares his 96 bushels from 17 rods, harvesting in October and using tops to extend milk yield, while roots are seen as mostly worthless.
The article argues frequent urban fires should spur public support for strong fire protection. It praises Cincinnati’s fire department as efficient and well directed, noting alarms from engine bells and the need for liberal spending on apparatus, all essential for effective fire control. Cincinnati Chronicle commentator.
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