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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1870
Page
4
An Ohio Farmer correspondent gives cautions on horse buying stressing trial periods and eye, feet, and body checks. It also details best crops and root yields with phosphates, corn, rye, oats, and winter grazing, plus notes on ash fertilizer and a large Illinois farming operation.
Col Waring in the Ameri can Agriculturist discusses Ogden Farm noting visitors lament its small size. He plans to triple soil productivity to effectively add 120 acres by absorbing the neighboring two farms, asserting future gains with closer distant land and one plowing for three tracts.
The article urges sorting potatoes as soon as they are dug while spread in the field. Sorting then avoids extra handling later and saves cold cellar effort. It notes boys should stay in school and favors doing the task at the proper time and place, recalling past hardships with cold fingers.
A Department of Agriculture report recommends alum water as a cure for chicken cholera. It advises giving three or four teaspoons daily and mixing strong alum water into feed. Another method uses eggs flour and alum paste forced into the fowl. Caution advised to prevent diarrhea and save broods.
The following statistics describe John T Alexander a Morgan county farmer and stock dealer. Acres of improved land 34000 unimproved 300 total 34300. Lands valued at 1685000. Implements valued at 50000. Wages paid to labor 76000. Livestock includes 70 mules 50 cows 150 horses 206 oxen and 7000 other cattle hogs.
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