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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1892
Page
6
The Country Gentleman suggests a horse drawn harvesting method to reduce labor and prevent fodder waste. A five row approach builds centered shocks with grouped hills AAA BBB CCC until all are evenly arranged, improving uprightness and speed, with walking distances noted for a field of 100 shocks.
Census returns show land values by state with New England and mid Atlantic states at 88.74 to 45.16 per acre, followed by Indiana Illinois and Wisconsin 23.30 to 32.83, then Iowa Colorado Utah California 29.92 to 25.62. The list continues with southern and western states at 5.86 to 14.45. In 1800 the US had 4 008 007 farms with owners cultivating 74.5 percent, cash rents 8 percent, and shares 17.5 percent. Illinois held 255 741 farms, Ohio 247 180, New York 241 058, Pennsylvania 213 542, Arizona 767, Nevada 1 404.
The editor notes twelve Ponderosa tomatoes weighing heavy, the largest at thirty five ounces. One tomato was cut open revealing unusually thick flesh with few seeds, making seed collection potentially worth ten dollars per pound. Fruits are regular in shape but still green at the stems.
A Connecticut farmer outlines a low cost zigzag rail fence repair using scavenged materials to straighten old fences and fence sheep efficiently. The piece also promotes early croup warning signs in children and recommends Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to prevent or lessen attacks, with local distributors listed.
The article notes California to be recognized by a prominent section of a famous big tree in the Government building at the Columbian Exposition. It also mentions a state fair invention: a transplanting machine for setting and firming soil around tobacco and cabbage with automatic irrigation. Times change as beekeeping advances.
Instructions urge thorough house cleaning to remove lice and mites and advise kerosene spraying for pest control. A Illinois Agriculturalist warns on nest protection, proper nesting materials, and how vermin damage egg production. Also outlines hay grades from choice timothy to mixed hay and how bad curing degrades quality.
A Beekeepers' Review summary outlines two wintering methods for bees and offers guidance for successful hibernation. It discusses wintering in cellars or chalf packed hives, queen selection, honey reserves, and early November placement. The piece also covers hay markets, egg foods for poultry, feeding mixes, and preparing fowl for the breeding season.
The law sets election day as the eighth of the month with Clermont county electors voting in township and precinct venues from 6 am to 6 pm. It lists the Ohio congressional districts and the counties comprising each district for the presidential electoral process.
The Bradford Well and Pump Co. at 93 and 25 E Second St Cincinnati Ohio manufactures and deals in steam pumps hydraulic rams iron pipe fittings brass goods hose and latest well points earth augers and pipe fittings Also offers deep well pump barrels tubes and repairs Oil gas and artesian well contractors Telephone 1895.
Train service from Batavia departs at 10:00 AM reaching Cincinnati at 7:20 AM, then leaves Cincinnati at 6:00 PM. Sunday train departs Cincinnati 1:58 PM and arrives Forteniss at 1:05 PM, returning to Cincinnati by 6:50 PM. Officials listed include E F Gray general passenger agent Samuel Horn president and J C Gleagon train master.
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