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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Times
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1869
Page
4
A jumble of notes on folk cures for chilblains using oak bark and boiling method, grafted pears on hawthorn trees described with age and yield, illness traced to horse-derived disease after a post mortem. Maine dairy buyers push for pure milk, and a legion of notes on weather, hoof care with pine tar, road robbers, tombstone poetry, composting manures, and horse aging wrinkles as a whimsical clue.
An older text debate surveys whether cutting grain before full ripening yields more profits for millers or farmers. It cites experiments by M Isidore Pierre, Professor Horsford, and a Minoia Industrial University lecture, challenging the belief that early harvest increases grain yield and flour quality. Various anecdotes, jokes, and notices are interwoven, reflecting a miscellany page of the paper.
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