MERRIMACK, (Thornton’s Ferry) has an infant twelve weeks old, which weighs two and one-quarter pounds, with its clothes on, but when born it weighed two and one-half pounds.
Its place of repose in the day-time is on the stove, which is heated by coal, thus an even heat, of 90 degrees is obtained, which is essential to keep life.
Published in “Farmer’s Cabinet,” 3 December 1878; Volume: 77; Issue: 22; Page: [2];
