Old Fashioned Barns and Fattening Hogs in Warm-Season Practices
A historic piece discusses converting barns to improve hog fattening and cattle layout. It notes elevating barns on piers to use cold winds, adding side sheds and cellars, and arranging cattle along the middle. It warns against overfeeding and praises bran and roots with corn for efficient gains, citing autumn as best fattening weather. The author, M. S. Perkins, emphasizes practical, economical methods.
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Smail
M. S& Perkins
Enlarged Barn Construction and Beef Carcass Handling
A detailed view outlines a two stage barn upgrade including a silo and calf pens with a dry cellar to store manure. An American Agriculturist sketch shows a derrick method using a tripod and pulleys to lift carcasses, with a two man team elevating a heavy weight safely and efficiently.
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Nere
Old Timey Farm Improvements Spur Narrow Tire Debate
Readers discuss practical contrivances for loading heavy loads and better road maintenance, urging legislative change to require four inch tires on heavy teams. Essays cover road repair, hemp rope hoists, and farm efficiency while noting Mansfield Connecticut growth and cargo handling challenges.
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Mansfield
Conn
Willimantic
D. Stearns
Wordplay and gossip mix with broken ads and editor brawl
Fragments show a jokey list of odd jobs and devices, a harsh newsroom rebuke from the city editor to a rookie reporter, and stray ads and medical pills. Names and places drift through a chaotic collage of 19th century newspaper text.
Moral House Rules and Health Advice Echoes of 19th Century Sermon
A jumble of moral exhortations and product notices urges piety kindness to animals and hard work. It blends advice on thrift sobriety and activity with cautions against whiskey and pessimism while promoting tonics and cures. The text mentions Mercury-containing remedies warnings from a Toledo firm and various advertisements and odd curiosities.
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