Use and Healthfulness of Fruit - From the American Agriculturist Vol. XI No. 13 December 7th 1853

January 05, 2020 by Daniel Evans in American Agriculturist, Food and Health

BECAUSE bowel complaints usually prevail most during the hot season of the year—the latter end of summer and antumn [sic], when fruit is most abundant, and in tropical climates where fruits are met with in great variety—it is inferred, according to the post hoc propter hoc mode of reasoning, that the one is the consequence of the other.

Management of Cider Apple Trees - From the American Agriculturist Vol. XI No. 13 December 7th 1853

January 05, 2020 by Daniel Evans in American Agriculturist, Orchardry

Those who have planted trees in the neighborhood of woods know by experience, that during long and severe winters, when the ground is covered with snow, deer, hares, and especially rabbits, gnaw the bark off trees as far as they can reach.