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FARMERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY PA

1880s FARMING TOOLS

from The Daily News Frederick Maryland June 17, 1886

Irrigation barrel; Marker Tool for Planting; How to control Cabbage Worms

Farmer irrigating his field with a short hose attached to a barrel that rests on a wagon drawn by 2 horses. The Daily News Frederick Maryland June 17, 1886

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The Cabbage Worm The cabbage worm can be driven off by a decoction of smart weed, or tobacco stems, or by kerosene emulsion, made by mixing sour milk with two parts coal oil by thoroughly churning or shaking, and then		diluting with twelve time its ba_k of water, or by mixing one ounce of yellow hard soap with one pint of coal oil, and then with six quarts of water, and sprinkling through a watering pot, or by dusting with "slug shot" -- Indiana Farmer
	The Daily News Frederick Maryland June 17, 1886

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A Handy Marker - the spokes sticking out of the wheel creates evenly spaces "markers" which set an even distance between the plantings.  The wheel had different holes set at varying distances - to change the distance to mark, the farmer would change the position of the spokes sticking out.  The marker wheel would be used in a plowed area.
	The Daily News Frederick Maryland June 17, 1886

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