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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1869
Page
2
Farmers should value sheep manure as a key fertilizer to improve soil. Proper bedding, cleanliness, and preserved manure boost pasture quality, while better flock management and winter feeding improve long term productiveness and crop yields.
Agricultural guidance favors wheat bran over buckwheat bran for richer milk due to higher albumen content. Cooking bran enhances its value, and bran supplies phosphoric acid aiding crop yields. For small herds, scalding bran before feeding improves digestion and milk production if supported by hay and shelter.
The piece notes corn husks are mainly used to stuff mattresses in the country. Hand tearing with a ketchel exists, but industry employs new machinery. It mentions German lead in utilization, Austrian inventions from five to six years ago yield 20 percent stout paper, 25 percent fibrous material for weaving, and 15 percent a starchy biscuit substance used by Austrian soldiers.
Carbolic acid, derived from coal tar, shares properties with wood creosote and serves as an excellent disinfectant. It is used widely from burns treatment to preservation of hides in warm climates, with treated slides staying sweet and sound where ordinary methods fail.
A tale claims sorghum syrup cannot crystallize into sugar though a bare sample laid aside for two years allegedly did. The discussion wonders if methods to solidify syrup without crystallization could yield a substance usable as sugar for many purposes.
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