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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1885
Page
2
An agricultural contemplation praises fragrant blossoms on apple trees and verdant meadows. The narrator longs for rural scenes away from urban labor, reveling in nature's beauty and the calm of fields and groves, while noting the need to cover vacation costs with stints.
A letter argues small farms are more profitable and humane than large tracts, citing geography and management. It urges farmers to consolidate, improve remaining land, and invest in stock and tools for higher per-acre returns, noting regional examples in Georgia and the South.
The Jersey Red, a hog breed rare in the South, is praised for rapid fattening at seven to eight months reaching 250 to 330 pounds. It is claimed to yield more lean meat and higher meat value, with superior sausage quality and strong prolific breeding, urging Southern breeders to promote it.
A Georgia fence is lawful when built with six barbed strands at specific ground clearances and post spacing, with a plank option at the bottom and evenly spaced top rails. Ammonia is promoted as a versatile cleaner cheaper than soap, followed by seasonal health tips urging cleanliness, ventilation, proper cooking, temperance, and timely routines for six weeks.
The notes cover livestock trends with halved world hog production and 20 000 more sheep shearing in Hugo Colorado, plus a Mississippi farmer using cold water to dislodge choking cattle. It cites wool prices from 1867–1883, cattle shipments from Wyoming to England via Superior Buffalo New York, and horses lacking green forage in busy seasons. Poultry remarks focus on France as top egg producer, cholera risks, varied diets, lice treatment, gapes remedies, and high poultry value in the U S. It advises curd from skimmed milk for butter districts, proper feeding, water, and stone/gravel intake for hens with feed options including corn oats and potatoes. Ends with product ads for Snowflake crackers and Georgia cane syrup from J F Taylor.
The text advises keeping horses in dry winter-like conditions and letting them graze briefly at night to aid them. It also prescribes warming a soaked lamb in a 95 degree bath, then feeding milk and drying thoroughly to revive a nearly dead young animal.
A note from Saratoga California describes a large prune orchard with 16 000 trees and gives cultivation advice for onions cabbage tomatoes roses and vineyards It also covers pest control methods mulching top dressing bone dust crushed shells and ash applications plus a report on irrigation practices and phylloxera impact in France.
A sermonic piece parallels the parable of the Good Samaritan to urge practical Christian charity. It cites Luke 10 30 26 and calls readers to act with mercy toward the needy, criticizing distant religiosity and praising compassionate aid.
Blind bleeding and itching piles yield to Dr Bosanko's Pile Remedy. It absorbs tumors and relieves itching for a permanent cure. Price fifty cents. Address Dr Bosanko Medicine Co Piqua Ohio. Sold by J W Hightower.
This column discusses green manuring as a subject of importance to farmers. A writer in an English journal is cited, and the author recalls reading a paper at the Otley and South Hants Farmers' Club in March 1885 that encouraged farmers to trial the system, leading to various results.
A fragment discusses women described as tired and languid with pale cheeks and irritable nerves. It promotes Parker's Tonic as a remedy to relieve troubles of their sex and restore vitality.
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