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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1876
Page
7
Western Farm Journal urges farmers to provide warm winter shelter and ample feeding for dairy cows. Proper pre calving feeding boosts milk production and reduces disease, while full winter feeding preserves flesh and maximizes seasonal milk flow and profits.
A temperance exhortation urges women to resist liquor and protect homes. It cites a Boston Journal stance and notes Stanton Kentucky actions where liquor licenses were surrendered and Powell County soon to ban sales. The piece warns of the moral, physical, and financial harms of alcohol and calls for continued reform.
In a Deerfield reader a report describes Elmira Farmers Club experiments. One grain yielded 24 ounces equaling 204 bushels per acre, another 314 ounces equaling 898, and a 374 ounce result equaling 453. The best was 43 ounces or 500 bushels per acre. The piece urges high farming potential.
An Ohio farmer boy, watching quails in his father’s corn field, fired at the flock after noting their regular foraging. He killed one bird and checked the ground, finding only a single disturbed corn stalk and various pests in the quail’s crop, but no grain of corn.
Farmers urged to bed only well formed full sized sweet potatoes for seed and weed out small tubers to maximize slips. Canotn Agricultural Works welcomed about eight thousand visitors to view reapers and mowers at the Centennial Exhibition.
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