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Domestic News
August 6, 1817
Delaware Gazette And Peninsula Advertiser
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware
What is this article about?
A farmer from St. Mary's County shares a successful method from October 1816 to eliminate garlic and cockle from wheat fields by shallow ploughing and harrowing without a second ploughing, resulting in the cleanest wheat crop that year.
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From the National Intelligencer.
There has been much enquiry among the farmers in the southern states respecting the best mode of destroying the onion or garlic in our wheat fields. If you think proper to give a place in your paper to the following, for the benefit of the public, you can do so. About the 10th October, 1816, I fallowed a lot of about 5 acres, that had been at all times, for years back, full of garlic. I ploughed it not more than 4 inches deep; I then sowed my wheat on the land without a second ploughing, and dragged it in with an iron tooth harrow. When we came to reap our wheat this year we found neither garlic nor cockle in my wheat, though it was full of both for years back; perhaps there never was cleaner wheat than that raised on this lot the present year.
Respectfully, yours,
St. Mary's county, 15th July, 1817.
There has been much enquiry among the farmers in the southern states respecting the best mode of destroying the onion or garlic in our wheat fields. If you think proper to give a place in your paper to the following, for the benefit of the public, you can do so. About the 10th October, 1816, I fallowed a lot of about 5 acres, that had been at all times, for years back, full of garlic. I ploughed it not more than 4 inches deep; I then sowed my wheat on the land without a second ploughing, and dragged it in with an iron tooth harrow. When we came to reap our wheat this year we found neither garlic nor cockle in my wheat, though it was full of both for years back; perhaps there never was cleaner wheat than that raised on this lot the present year.
Respectfully, yours,
St. Mary's county, 15th July, 1817.
What sub-type of article is it?
Agriculture
What keywords are associated?
Wheat Fields
Garlic Destruction
Ploughing Method
Farming Technique
Southern States
Where did it happen?
St. Mary's County
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
St. Mary's County
Event Date
About The 10th October, 1816
Outcome
found neither garlic nor cockle in the wheat; cleanest wheat raised on this lot the present year.
Event Details
Fallowed a lot of about 5 acres full of garlic; ploughed not more than 4 inches deep; sowed wheat without second ploughing; dragged in with iron tooth harrow.