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Improvement of Southern Land and a Drunken Traveler Tale
A Rural New Yorker correspondent notes a Southern land improvement tale where a Kentucky buyer converts worn cotton land into a diversified farm, wheat and clover seeded, cattle and hogs fed on grain, yielding $600 net per hand and rich living. A hotel episode follows with a watchman mistaking rooms and forcing medicine on the wrong guest, sparking a wild Irish uproar.
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