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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1869
Page
4
A rural note from The Register shares home fowl care tips stressing weekly cleaning, roost sanitation, kerosene use, oat based feed, and limited feeding times. It advocates soap pills and lobelia tincture for sick birds and promotes wood ashes as a valuable fertilizer to enrich soil and crops, urging farmers to save and store ashes for future seasons.
A writer cites a farmer who yields large milk and butter by feeding cows a daily drink of water slightly warm and salted with bran in a one quart to two gallons ratio. He asserts a 25 percent milk increase and strong cow attachment to the diet, with a typical pailful given three times daily.
Practical tips on improving poultry through breeding, replacing dunghill roosters with high-bred fowls, and boosting next season’s meat. Also prompts on watering farms, water sources, and notes on onion planting for pest control. Includes casual remarks on birds’ pest control and a brief line about body snatching and running away with a sweetheart.
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