While all sitting down for dinner in the farm house the young daughter takes a slice of the cornbread cake but the next time we see it it is whole again.
When Mason's son Hal finds the black hornet, he holds up his father's coat as evidence that he killed the right bug. Later, we see Tom wearing the same black coat before his son arrives at the farm.
The cover of "Democracy in America" shows the author as Alexander DeTocqueville, rather than Alexis de Tocqueville.