Redmond, Dennis (fl. 1856-1865) Southern cultivator [Vol. 19, no. 6 (June 1861)]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08496.02 Author/Creator: Redmond, Dennis (fl. 1856-1865) Place Written: Augusta, Georgia Type: Magazine Date: June 1861 Pagination: 62 p. ; 26.3 x 17.7 cm. Order a Copy
Co-edited with C.W. Howard. Consists of 30 pages for the magazine with 32 pages of advertisements -- 16 pages before getting to the magazine and 16 pages after the magazine. This issue is paginated 170-200. Tagline below masthead says "Devoted Exclusively to Southern Agriculture, Horticulture, Plantation and Domestic Economy Manufactures, and the Mechanic Arts." Advertisements for various farm implements (mostly plows and cotton gins), manure, land, and insurance -- also including one full page ad for a piano. Front page has an essay on the plantation economy of the South. Update on the executive committee meeting of the Georgia State Agricultural Society. Many letters to the editors: letter from Texas requesting help with a mysterious insect attacking vegetables and melons, a letter on sheep raising in the wire-grass section of Georgia, a letter on the prospects of direct trade in the South, etc. One letter replying to an article titled "Serfs, not Slaves," in the April issue says it "is decidedly the best written, the most sensible, and the best definition of the relationship that exists between us and our laborers, that I have ever read upon the slavery question!" Other letters on: Cotswold sheep, soluble phosphated Peruvian guano, and the rolling and soaking of seeds, etc. Article on politics titled "Our Destiny" on page 181-182. Contains a section on horticulture, including information on grapes and garden walks. Short column titled "Campaigning Axioms," on page 194. Recipes on page 199-200. Original stab-stich binding. Stain at bottom of each page of the magazine.
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