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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Charles W. Rich (half-brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1857

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Open book Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Charles W. Rich (half-brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1857

Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Charles W. Rich (half-brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1857

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1852-1857

Place United States

Subjects Bowdoin College, Brothers and sisters, DuQuoin Coal Company, Illinois Central Railroad Company

Format Business records, Correspondence, Diaries, Genealogies, Invoices, Manuscripts, Personal narratives, Records

User-Contributed Transcription How is your garden this spring? It seems to me it is hardly worth the while for a farmer not to have an earlier garden than yours ever is. The thing is perhaps the nature of the soil; it needs an under draining; but ploughing it up in high ridges in fall would help it much. And fall ploughing would not injure that soil as it does so badly the intervale. If that garden spot was ploughed thoroughly into ridges in the fall, you could plant Peas, lettuce, &c., such things as are not injured by frost, in March. Potatoes too. It has been a very late backward season here; but my early peas are all in full bloom for some days, they stand about 3 feet high. Tomatoes about ready to bloom. Early beets onions & turnips, getting pretty sizeable and lettuce & such things abundant for I do not know how long.
All such things are very convenient in a family.
The place I have just bought here is pretty thoroughly under drained throughout.

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 8 Folder 199

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2879px × 3885px 64.04 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_08_fl_199_010_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FKII

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