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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1876
Page
6
Farmer guidance explains saving soluble manure lost to rains. Build cisterns near barns ten feet deep eight by twelve feet, with oak planks and reinforced frames. Install inlet and outlet pipes, a tanner pump, and a wagon sprinkler to spread manure on meadows or young corn in spring.
The author argues that animal comfort drives dairy profitability. He recounts improving a five-cow stable ten years ago to prevent manure freezing, boosting milk output and calf thrift. A well built stable maintains cow heat five times its size above freezing with adjustable head ventilation, cut feed costs, and can raise winter profits by a third.
An Iowa hog raiser and pork packer recounts that spring pigs reaching about three hundred pounds stalled growth with feeding, as he milksed pumpkins and middlings in fall to develop bone and muscle. He advocates not confining hogs more than five weeks before market. He notes rapid gains of two pounds daily after close-pen feeding.
The article argues that a large net profit per acre underpins successful farming. It states that high yields of profitable crops are essential, as the entire business hinges on per acre profitability and achieving strong returns for tillers of the soil.
The text argues that small crops are unreliable and rarely worth the effort, while even prolific yields can lose value from negligence or folly. Overall, it asserts profits favor large products per acre, with exceptions not changing the general rule.
The passage explains drying off dairy cows at season end. After milking stops the udder must be examined at intervals and any collected milk removed. Neglect may cause udder injury including teat loss and shrinkage, reducing future usefulness of the cow.
The ovarium of a hen contains about 600 ovulas and she can not lay more than that many eggs in her life. In the first year she yields 15 to 20 eggs, in the second 100 to 120, third 120 to 135, fourth 100 to 115, fifth 60 to 80, sixth 50 to 60, seventh 35 to 40, eighth 15 to 20, and ninth 1 to 10. It is not profitable to keep a hen after four years.
A bachelor Darwitch suffers a cold bath accident on a bitter night and is freed from his tub by a neighbor. Months later he attends a wedding, while a humorous tale of colored weddings follows with quips on attire and saluting the bride. Valparaiso Chili endures a damaging earthquake, destroying $1,500,000 in property.
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