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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1876
Page
7
The New York Journal of Commerce argues in a long extract that many workers face crowded professions and scarce openings. It touts farming as accessible and remunerative, urging young men to take to the soil despite hard outdoor labor for steady bread and independence.
A Country Gentlemen reader details oat meal preparation. Soaked oats are avoided by cooking oat meal mush in boiling water, then serving with butter sugar nutmeg or cream. Breakfast mush is baked with eggs and butter. oat meal griddle cakes mix mush flour eggs butter and sour milk with soda.
The Mark Lane Express notes a Yorkshire Agricultural meeting praising the Short-Horn breed. It argues good stock endures beyond fashion and likens the breed’s staying power to an old song that never dies, while acknowledging some dismiss critics.
The National Granger argues boosting sheep numbers will reduce imports of woolen and unmanufactured goods. It notes 1875 wool clip near 200 000 pounds versus 1860 at 75 000 000 pounds and claims the U S will increasingly meet its own wool demands as flocks grow.
Farmers should not neglect newspapers as they connect isolated rural families to the outside world. Access to periodicals spreads intelligence, improves morals, and provides social schooling for farmers and their children, preventing self isolation and ignorance.
A hundred years ago households burned no coal or gas, relied on brick hearths, pine knots, and tallow candles. Firekeeping required trips for tinder, and most homes had one heated room with zero degrees in others. People slept in frigid rooms and endured harsh winters without complaint.
The Havana Journal reports a Chemung county farmer set stuffed squirrels on tree limbs to fool city hunters. Hunters wasted powder and lead chasing the nonmoving game, while the farmer enjoyed a hearty laugh at their puzzled disappointment.
A Vermont Port land and Ogdensburg excursion train descends a heavy grade when three cattle obstruct the track. The engineer disconnects, slams on brakes, and with full steam drives forward to push the cattle off the line, then rejoins the train, keeping passengers unaware of the danger.
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