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pens or rather hog houses that it has yet been our
good fortune to examine : complete with front doors,
back doors & sun shades : 24 ft sqare, divided into
four compartments 6 x 24 ft each, with sleeping room
6 x 8, feed floor 6 x 8, & a place between 6 x 8 for manure.
We next visited the potato patch, where some
of our members, as well as others from the Montgomery
Club, interested us by scratching out several hills
of very fine Potatoes, which were variously estimated
to yield from 125 to 200 bushels per acre, averaging
above 150 bushels per acre.
Ques, 1st Does lime applied to corn - ground in the
Spring have a tendency to keep the corn
green ?
Ans. Most of those present thought it had.
Ques. 2 Granville Farquhar showed a lot of potatoes
sent by F. L. Moore that were very rough and
knotty: what caused it ?
Ans. Hard or stony ground and showery weather
will have the effect, especially when
they have not been well cultivated.
Ques. 3 Where shall I sow orchard grass and
will it pay to sow it at $ 2. 00 per bu?
Ans. Sow in the Spring: it will pay at $ 2.00
per bu. on good land.
Ques, 4 How much wheat will you sow to the acre?
Ans. Five pecks of Fultz , except three who will
sow six pecks.
Ques. 5 What does the Club think of dissolved
South Carolina rock in place of dissolved
bone at double the price of the rock ?
Notes and Questions
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On line 1, # '161' is stamped in charcoal grey on the upper right-hand corner of the page.
In line 11, this writer will sometimes keep the written connection between one word to the next.
In this case, the writer has connected '125 to'. Even though the words are connected by writing, there is still a space between them, therefore I have put a space between them and the transcribed words will look like two separate words. If there was no space, the words will be transcribed together.
In line 13, there are two small marks that lie side by side on the line under the superscript.
Sometimes there is only 1 mark. This particular mark is a single double quotation mark.
These marks resemble periods, single quotation marks, double quotation marks, or even mini dashes. These marks will be present under all underlined or not-underlined superscripts unless otherwise noted.
In line 13, the writer put what resembled a smallish backslash before the 'g' in the word 'ground'.
In previous pages, the writer put a similar mark before the 'o' in the words 'of', 'our', and 'old'.
This is the same mark the writer uses to start the letter 'a', the difference being the mark sometimes flows into the 'a' but so far, is always separated from the o. Not sure how the writer came to use this technique. I will not be using the marks before the c's, o's, or a's nor noting them from here forward. Other letters may have the same mark before them.
** The writer in line 13 has changed from the writer in line's 11 and before on this page.
In line 17, Granvillo Farquhar is mentioned. I have come across this name on 10 to 20
pages over the last several months. The first name has always been spelled Granville or Grannille.
This was the first time it was spelled Granvillo. My money says Granvillo is the correct version.
Wanna bet!