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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Times
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1874
Page
2
The Journal of the Farm reports on fence costs based on state statistics detailing posts, rails, boards, and labor. It notes high fencing expenses, with a rough rule that every dollar of stock requires one dollar of upkeep, highlighting national debt as a broader factor impacting fencing prices.
Annie Kirk of Bethel Pennsylvania earned 350 in 1817 after expenses for food freight and care. She started with eighty fowls including Cochin China Brahmas and other varieties. Cochin and Brahma breeds proved most profitable with high growth and health. She fed seven to ten bushels of corn weekly and cracked corn for the young. This year she keeps a full stock ledger detailing expenses and profits and expects higher earnings, despite a poultry disease scare. Her methods, aided by lime and disinfectants, helped check disease spread last year. Her achievement is celebrated as exemplary for ladies in farming.
The piece extols nursing as a noble female field and urges careful infant care. It emphasizes gentleness, keeping the baby warm and dry, shielding the head from cold, proper washing and dressing, timely feeding, and using minimal pins while avoiding smothering and neglect. It underscores motherly love plus nurse guidance as essential to healthy early development.
A macabre legend from Partenheim Bavaria tells of Anna Maria Falkner and her husband Joseph Falkner pursued by foresters. After a hunter shoots Joseph, the couple flee toward the Austrian frontier with their infant. In a desperate moment Anna silences the baby to hide their crime, pleading for mercy as frontier officers question them.
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