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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1859
Page
2
The article argues drilling wheat seeds yields higher germination and reduces needed seed, saving harrowing labor. It notes costs limit drill use and offers broadcast sowing with a roller on poor or sandy soils, while loams benefit from spring drilling to compact roots after frost. Winterkill varies by soil texture.
The best soil for pear trees is a strong loam of moderate depth on dry subsoil. Avoid damp soils and overly rich deep soils that cause overgrowth and winter blight. Remedies include raised plantings with lime, trenching or top dressing with muck or river mud, and selecting cooler south facing slopes in cold climates.
The London Cottage Gardener advises building a bar coop three feet by eighteen inches by eighteen inches for twelve fowls, with tight management. Feed ground oats four times daily, use a sliding front board with gravel, and separate or partition by wood as needed. Kill only after fattening, with twelve to fifteen hours of fasting before slaughter.
A Yates County Chronicle correspondent visits Cayuga county noting the Thomas farm at Union Springs shows a neglected, weedy, and unthrifty appearance contrary to expected farm progress. He doubts agricultural knowledge explains the weeds and hints at overall poor cultivation.
The passage critiques era agricultural papers noting they often come from theoretical writers rather than the best practical farmers. It highlights the gap between cultivated essays and real field success and suggests a skepticism toward imagined expertise versus lived experience.
The writer notes frost killed wheat and says cutting immediately may yield a sprout with at least half a crop. They mention two fields left standing two weeks after frost then cut have since sent stalks and filled enough to pay for cutting. Readers with similar facts are asked to communicate.
Ohio farmers expect to sell at least 10 million pounds of wool this year at about 45 cents a pound, totaling roughly 4.59 million dollars in two and a half months. Cleveland auctions last week yielded 600,000 pounds sold from 18 to 73 cents. Mr Sessions has bought about 400,000 pounds across nearby counties, paying 180,000 dollars to farmers. The article also notes ecclesiastical year statistics from the New and Old School Presbyterian General Assembly and hints at congressional jockeying before the session.
A New York letter recounts a humorous Beecher Park Benjamin rail trip exchange about Sundays and attendances in Brooklyn. It also notes photographer Heywood owning a dog with sagacity, found standing on Washington street, sniffing near a sign reading A. Patridge.
A western editor notes that in peril a drowning man often recalls many life events. He jokes that some subscribers should take up deep water bathing to test such memories.
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