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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1882
Page
7
The piece discusses a cotton seed derived vegetable butter praised for mild flavor and healthfulness while noting adulteration risks in butter markets. It covers farm accounting benefits, railway rate disparities against California wool, clover curing methods, manger design, and crop rotations with rye, oats, and barley.
A described three parts gum shellac to one part rubber by weight in ether free from alcohol, mixed after dissolution to create a waterproof glue. It resists water and many acids and alkalies, and bonds wood leather or other materials at joints. Used thinly it can patch cracks or seal seams as a varnish.
A reader discusses soil prep for flowers, noting clay soils benefit from mixing coal ashes and salt to counteract souring. The writer shares a candytuft transplant experience where slugs or worms pulled plants into holes, and salt treatment yielded excellent blooms. The advised mix is one part salt to five parts ashes, well combined.
Experiments show corn hilled for cultivation blows down more easily than corn grown on level ground. Roots lie near the surface, and hills trap roots in a small area, whereas level rows allow roots to extend beyond the hill.
A passage notes rows of corn stay upright and firmly rooted, withstanding ordinary gales as designed by nature, and only at risk under unusually violent winds.
For fifty years a hill practice has thinning potato vines to two stalks when overrun. At hoeing time the weaker stalks are trodden under as weeds. This yields an increase of large handsome tubers and the seed is cut to single eyes to avoid overcrowding.
Printed bill heads should be used by every businessman they are furnished at the Sun office as cheaply as blank paper at retail and offered for immediate use by merchants seeking ready made forms.
Historical ad extols AYer's Cherry Proctoral as the world’s cure for throat and lung diseases. It claims rapid relief from ordinary colds and life saving protection in throat chest disorders, urged as a home staple used by physicians and clergy. Sold by all druggists.
A marriage took place at the M. E. parsonage in Dix on Lee Center resident Mr. Abrams Depew wed Miss Lizzie M Shu hart, both of Lee Center, in a ceremony conducted by Rev. O F Mattison.
A physician and surgeon maintains offices in the Hine Building on Galen Street opposite Tilicon's and above Dr Koyerett's. The residence is on the North Side.
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