414 issues of "The Southern Planter" are available at the Internet Archive https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22southern+planter%22&page=2 William and Mary have made scanning this publication a special project. The journal was begun in 1841, and digitized copies go back at least to 1842. Its publication continued into the twentieth century.
Don Wilson
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Are there earlier copies of The Southern Planter? The former editor was my ancestor Andrew Nicol who lived in Petersburg and I believe started the
Southern Planter. He was from Perth, Scotland. He started a model farm
and, I believe, this publication. I would like to have a copy for my records. He died in 1854.
Pat Archer
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:49 PM Wilson, Donald L <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yes, and in the May 1855 issue of "The Southern Planter"
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> https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/bitstream/handle/10288/17669/southernpla
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> it says
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> “[Green corn] is left there [standing in shocks in the field] to wilt
> for three or four days, then taken up, if free from rain-water, and
> laid on a top stack, or as we term it, fodder house, with both ends open. ..”
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> Don Wilson
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> No, the word was not misread or miswritten.
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> According to The Farmer. Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, the
> Mechanic Arts and Household Economy. Elliott & Shields, Published by
> Richmond, VA.
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> Volume I: Nos. 1-12 (January- December 1866), a "top stack" refers to
> a building used to store silage for farm animals. It is also known as
> a fodder house, which would have been a valuable farm commodity.
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> *Vincent T. Brooks*
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> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:25 PM Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]<mailto:
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> > This sounds VERY plausible - how clear is the handwritten text?
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> > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:17 PM Wilson, Donald L <[log in to unmask]
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> > > I suspect the word "top stack" is misread or miswritten. Haystack
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> > > a logical word in context.
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> > > Donald L. Wilson, Virginiana Librarian The Ruth E. Lloyd
> > > Information
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> > > Center for Genealogy and Local History (RELIC) Prince William
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> > > In an 1811 court document, there is reference to an enslaved man
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> > > being jailed for "burning a top stack." Does anyone have any idea
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> > > what "top stack" might mean in this context?
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> > > I was thinking it might be an agricultural reference (like in
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> > > haystack), but can find nothing conclusive.
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> > > Thanks,
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> > > Vince
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