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Follow redacted: private Your batch (files under draft/book-01/author-notes/): 41-calm-hands.md unpublished, 42-a-factors-woman.md unpublished, 44-where-they-stopped-writing.md unpublished, 46-a-list-of-houses.md unpublished, 48-the-eleventh-of-cornmonth.md unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished, 52-eleven-hazel-twigs.md unpublished, 54-before-the-charter.md unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished.

I'll start by reading the brief.

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🔧 Bash: cat .claude/skills/farming-check/SKILL.md && echo "=====FARMING" && cat notes/farming.md…

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Now I'll rewrite the notes.

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All ten notes edited; prose_lint --scope note passes with 0 errors (one corpus-level warning that is an artefact of linting only these 10 files as the "corpus").

Per file

41-calm-hands — Restructured the long item so it leads on weed seed rather than re-teaching turning (already explained in the ch. 04 Compost note); removed a "not X but Y" construction and the rhetorical closer ("because somebody counted the seedlings"); completed the windrow rule (five turns, above 55 °C, for a fortnight). Trimmed Against a wall to drop the heap-drainage point already made in the ch. 04 Muck note.
42-a-factors-woman — Factual fix: "careful chaining gets within about a link in the chain" implied ~1:100 accuracy, which is far worse than real chaining and contradicted the scene's own two-links-in-200-yards figure; recast as two runs agreeing inside a link or two over a couple of hundred yards. Also recast the "is not politeness. It is part of the reading" negative split and cut the closer that restated Peri's dialogue.
44-where-they-stopped-writing — Trimmed the cave-breathing digression (physics verified: chimney effect, direction correct in both seasons, seasonal reversal, barometric single-entrance caves). No factual changes.
46-a-list-of-houses — Softened "Barley is the worst of the common corns for it" to "Barley is bad for it" (oats shatter badly too); recast the "not waiting… he is watching" negative split; broke out the lodging definition. Facts (neck brittleness/head loss, wheat sheds less, lodging, pre-harvest sprouting, staddle stones) verified.
48-the-eleventh-of-cornmonth — Sense fix: the second item claimed long nature records were kept by people not keeping them for that, then gave Marsham, who kept his deliberately; recast to "he did it out of curiosity, for himself." Overclaim fix: "almost everything we know… rests on it" → "a great deal of what we know… rests on it anyway"; "the finest English one" → "the longest". Zadoks scale (1974, 00–92) and the four ripening stages verified. Cut a sentence that annotated Mattie's line down to one pointing clause.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose Ergot facts (rye, sclerotia, vasoconstrictive alkaloids, gangrenous and convulsive forms, St Anthony's fire, brine flotation) verified.
52-eleven-hazel-twigs — Trimmed the long item and replaced its closing line ("should be the richest thing anybody owns"), which was Edwin's own line from scene 53 unpublished and pointed at the mystery; it now ends on the hurdle labour. Folding/golden hoof, dung beetles, and sheep-versus-cow bite height verified.
54-before-the-charter — Factual fix: Fisher was hired at Rothamsted in 1919 against records from 1843, so "over eighty years" → "over seventy years". Fix: "a flame… leans in proportion" (deflection is not proportional to airspeed) → "leans further in a stronger one". Recast "is not paused. It is lost" as a plain statement. Randomisation/replication/blocking and guard rows verified.
56-the-pale-and-the-whips — Cut the sentence re-explaining bare-root dormant lifting (already in the ch. 09 Whips note) and kept only the mechanism, which is new. Made the willow-water claim precise and honest ("willow tissue is rich in the same auxin that rooting powders are made of… an old trick with something behind it") rather than "real chemistry behind it". Recast the "is not still growing, it is still drying" split. Spacing (double staggered row, 5–6/yard) verified.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose Replaced the cute-cryptic closer ("A dead thing opened and left uneaten is none of those") with a real diagnostic: bird plucks feathers whole, mammal bites the quills through. Trimmed to budget.

Claims left softened / unverifiable

42: the size of between-sorter variation in hand-sorting worms ("some miss half of them") is stated as a general pattern, not a cited figure; observer-effect recording in national schemes is real (BBS-type schemes) but the note does not name one.
56: willow water as a rooting aid — the auxin content is real, the practical efficacy is mixed in the literature, so the note now says "an old trick with something behind it" rather than asserting it works.
54: pre-specifying the analysis is attributed to the Rothamsted design tradition rather than to a specific Fisher publication.

Autobiographical claims — none in any of the ten notes. No new entries are needed in notes/author.md.

Flags outside my batch (not edited)

118-nine-words.md unpublished carries The fold, which duplicates my ch. 25 Folding (hurdles, golden hoof, downland, daily moves) almost point for point; scene 118 unpublished is much later, so 118 is the re-explanation.
116-a-foot-under.md unpublished carries Stock refusing a patch, which overlaps my ch. 28 A refusal line (cattle refusing grass round their own dung); again mine comes first.
The glossary's entries for Reading a kill and Why a hill breathes are marked "explained (ch. 014)", a deleted-draft chapter; the glossary was not edited per the brief, but those rows now need re-pointing to chapters 28 and 21 of the third draft.