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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1919
Page
4
Market updates include M B Ulrich Co selling meat smoke and a King’s Herald market at Poin Dexter’s on Saturday Feb 8. Local notices report gasoline engine for sale, various visits, illnesses, travel to Indianapolis for millinery openings, and farm sales guidance with publicity tips.
The piece weighs the value of labor for sheep and lamb care, noting equipment, manure value, and pre pasture work. It estimates summer pasture at 25 cents per head per month, equates two lambs to one sheep, and assigns one-fifth of wool and lambs as reasonable pay. It also notes a 183 percent lamb crop with twins, and that a fifth of them covers summer pasture.
A Spink county farmer shifted from geldings to mares and raised two colts after buying mares for 425 dollars to replace two geldings sold for 450. Analysis shows horse work cost him little in 1916, with the colts effectively paying the bill and convincing neighbors of sound farm management.
William Allen of Cleveland, a gardener, was fined $10 and costs after tying a robin to a cherry tree to frighten away other birds seeking the fruit.
An apparatus devised by an Ohioan allows a patient with a broken leg to move the limb slightly without shifting the fractured bones. The invention aims to reduce stiffness and aid healing while limiting displacement during recovery.
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