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Kern Canon

Raspberriesbwill be ripe in about 2 weeks. Mrs. Harvey uses the very spiny gooseberry the large one for cooking; the spines do not trouble but cook right up.

Mrs. Harvey tells me that the bark of elderberry is made into a medicine which is a sure cure for dropsy. Wild cherry bark used also in rural medicine.
=Prunus emarginatta prob.
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July 25,1900.

Rattlesnake antidotes:
Mrs. Harvey: Common Soda, administer dry to wound after cutting from fang to fang if there are two marks
others apply turpentine, coal oil, gunpowder, chew & put on bite. Indians of Owen's Valley put on flesh of snake if snake has not bit itself. Bark of ash (Leather-leaf Ash) chew up or boil in milk and apply. Apply soda until it quits "boiling up green".

The "Cottonwood of this region is Populus trichocarpa.
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