Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-01-24
Some Facts About the Sun.

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Some Facts About the Sun.
The sun is $4,000 times as large az
this earth.
The sun is 400 times as far off as the
moon.
A lady who weighs 100 pounds here
would weigh 200 pounds if on the sur
face of the sun.
The heat given off by the sun would
melt 2S7, 100000 cubic miles of ice every
second. The diameter of the earth
bears the same relation to its distance
from the sun as the breadth of hair to
125 feet.
A railroad train travelling without
stops at the rate of forty miles an hour
would get to the sun in 263 years.
The sun is believed teR become some
250 feet smaller every year.
This contraction would be sufficient to
generate the enormous quantity Of heat
which it radiates.
Another theory is that comets and
meteOriC matter falling into the sun
ous loss which combustion certainly in
wolves.
1t would require the combustion Of
thirty feet of coal over the entire surface
of the sun every second to generate the
same heat.
The stars are supposed to average larger
than our sun and to have planetary
-sstems like his.
tle-pearest star is 25O,OOO times as far
"U conqr sun,
nd medicalight eight minutes to come
he ''the blue but it must have required
and restores N9pe from the farthest
gives rise to them.
ness and Liver COyear storms on the
in pepSia, Constipation, 1hedle on the
and Ague, Spleen Enlargement teonsISdlIi dI
ErysiPelas, Pimples, RIotches and all Ski
a EruptlOnS and Blood Disorders: SweIIe
- I8OI lf,.nd, that we7taarleee,ase Tr,,,,-;-S
3 Llen into during high price, IN -. PI,a on {
4 fhe9 US to inquire with more thai = ~. ~
sGtnestness, "What can be done - - III ~
the farms on the Western Reserve !: S-aeS I
| give up in despair, get what they caIil't 'tisll !
m with Greeley's advice and $50 Wei a
But not all, some will remain and tryt0.e
still longer, and will succeed. But to sJfes
| ceed something must be done and one in
portant part Of that something Is great
deal of hard work. Thorough farming
means hard work.
The question then, "HOw can we manage
| our lands so as to restore them to their
| former Droduetiveness? The introduction
of the new fertilizers is doing wonderful
things for US: on many farms large crops
of Grain have been produced where they
were almost entirely given over to weeds or
white grass, which is not much better.
But those fertilizers are mostly expensive
; but they give us something TO commence
| with, and if all Of this grain Except wheat
and the straw and all coarse fodder IS con-
sumed on the farm (Which certainly snould
, bp) If enables us to enlarge our manure pile
} and furnish our own fertilizers TO a greater
r extent from year to year. Now, II we can
! raise Grain can we not raise grass? be-
lieve we can, and would therefore recon-
{ mend a rotation Of crops on dairy farms II
q | This way. The number of acres to be KEPT
under the plow of course depends upon the
I | size Of the farm; but say we take thirty
s acres. ten in corn, ten in oats, and ten II
= wheat: corn upon sward ground, oats ate
L | corn and wheat aftC ! oats and seed to graS
with the wheat in the Spring; and II 10
4 | roeodovv in most cases would seed wit
Is clover and timothy; if for pasture wouI'
n seed heavy with orchard grass, clover an!
o timothy. l would harrow my wheat VIII
y a Iigbt harrow which will pulverlZe the SUI
q face and prepare it well for the grass see'
and he a benefit to the wheat, and on som
II land would SOW superphosphate or bon
d dust broadcast at the time oil sowing IN
r, grass seed. -, ,,,,--,,
- o,5 Thoroughly pulverized with the harrOy
,S o. tert free from weeds during these thre
n crons and also well manured, think II
" weII nrppared for a good catch Of grass
,s With this thirty acres Of grain, and all tn
= coarse fodder we can Winter our COWS; bu
do not sell the coarse grain and try to Win
!, fer the COWS on straw, but feed II all on IN
I farm in order that the manure pile may b
n wonderfully enlarged.
9 7 we'll remember when / commence
or keppiug dairy, which was twenty-five veal
NJ aoo- -thst dairymen were Of the opinion tbs
he | from the droppjngs of the stock, pasture
Iv | lands would continue their prOductlyene
and even improve in fertility. But in tn
#. | they were disappointed, and ind som
ce thing must be done for them. think to-
re dressing, with some Of the fertilizers tn
is can be purchased, and also hne oarn-yal
tv manure. If persevered in, will restore in
* good degree even our pasture lands.
I'M this course be pursued, and the work tho
,et ouphly done. l think we may begin to |
on crease the number Of COWS and in a f
ed ! wears bring them back nearly If not qui
to to the number originally kept on q
de farm.
ON ] Ibelieve that the most successful dalT
cir men now think that the best way to ke
,ut up or increase their dairy is to raise tn,
Of own cows, rather than to purchase and Ia
oy- the risk Of getting poor mixers.
or. But in the breeding of dairy cows 1t
no very essential that we select good mike
,ell | whether they be good grades, or natives
thoroughbred AyrshireS, HOlStein, ShD
self Horns, or any other breed. Always usc
ing thoroughbred bull, and breed for a St'
led dard OF excellence, and not be satisfied I
ish- I'll YOU have obtained it.
be- The care Of COWS is very essential IN 5
In cessful dairying; if they are exposed
hile cold and storms, and not well fed, and
ally continually losing flesh during the wint
tai we cannot expect them to give a large I
und Of milk the next season. They Sho
row have the best feed that We can afford
e a should be regularly fed and have plenty
but good water near the barn, and never lei
We run all over the farm during the O
a to weather in winter and spring when
the ground is soft, which is serious inIur!
at a the grass and no benefit TO the stock.
here ery farm should be supplied with c
the pure water during the summer, II by
OF other and cheaper way than well pl
good and wind mill. Good warm stables Shl
othy also be provided, and all things eonSld
hole / would recommend bank barns or
; to ments OF stone for Stabling. Cows sh
/ or always be kindly treated and gently
hay died, and while at pasture, far better {
ot as induced to come to the milking stabl
always finding meal, bran or some {
/ Of feed in their manger than to 6e ruI
that bows and dogs or to be hurried by mel
s,sss, per Dol ~-'-. ------ N
vinegar, per gall ------.. 1s6
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