The Red Cross : in peace and war . hstanding this. Miss Barton bought nine hundredbushels of Early Rose potatoes. Women were set at work carefullycutting these into one or two eyes each for planting. This provisionalso removed any possible temptation, with their scant provisions, touse them at once for food. The seed corn, like everything else in all this vicinity, had beendestroyed by the storm. Again Miss Barton sent to the Ohio valleyfor two carloads of seed corn. This was distributed over the entirestorm-swept section, and many of these people at harvest time saidthat if the storm had brou
The Red Cross : in peace and war . hstanding this. Miss Barton bought nine hundredbushels of Early Rose potatoes. Women were set at work carefullycutting these into one or two eyes each for planting. This provisionalso removed any possible temptation, with their scant provisions, touse them at once for food. The seed corn, like everything else in all this vicinity, had beendestroyed by the storm. Again Miss Barton sent to the Ohio valleyfor two carloads of seed corn. This was distributed over the entirestorm-swept section, and many of these people at harvest time saidthat if the storm had brought them nothing but this new varietj^ ofseed corn, it would have been a blessing, for their crop was doublewhat it had ever been before. In order to preserve the quality of the famed sea island cotton,which is a special variety, with long, silky fibre, used for makingthread, the furnishing of this seed was given to the care of the localcotton merchants, who were directly interested in preserving its highstandard and market
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