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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1879
Page
4
A longative list of rural advice covers cattle feeding, water purification, tree and crop care, sheep lice remedies, fly and insect control, fowl management, and general farm maintenance. It includes methods to improve cistern water clarity, protect crops with soil and lime, and calls for humane treatment of birds while warning against waste and neglect.
Directions copied for home wine making from mustang grapes. Use four bushels of clean grapes in a barrel, mash without crushing seeds, add water, build a 3 foot square press platform, straws as needed, and press with lever. Juice yields about forty gallons. add three pounds brown sugar per gallon or adjust with sugar and grape juice. ferment and top up daily, then drain, lime water rinse, sulfur, and re-bung the barrel.
A garbled colonial kitchen note lists recipes and measurements for breads and cakes. It includes phrases about milk, flour, butter, lemon, yeast, and baking steps, with numerous misspellings and unclear quantities, reflecting a historical domestic cookbook fragment.
The passage argues that health is influenced by mental state and faith. It cites cases of illness triggered by anticipation or belief, such as seasickness before travel and dying from cancer without stomach disease. It urges diverting attention from self and relying on faith to influence life and recovery.
A fragmentary piece discusses love and devotion to women, quotes reflections on labor and virtue from tomb inscriptional lines, and pivots to a call to settle a sunstroke matter by agreeing on a brand to separate excess gin from sun exposure. The text mixes moral maxims with social commentary.
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