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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1873
Page
8
A call to farmers to open County Farming paper to readers in Menson County. Emphasizes plain talk about implements, stock, successes and failures, and practical farming topics over politics. Encourages lighting homes, promoting agronomy, better storage, feeding, and reading good agricultural books with youths.
Fragments describe Atlantic cable wave speeds from 7000 to 8000 miles, with poles aiding faster emissions and signals reaching 12000 miles per second. Other notes cover canning fruit like eggs and preserving jars by boiling, plus soap making with common salt or alkali and a basic soap formula including oil and tallow.
The article recommends several moth and insect control methods for meat storage. It suggests washing bags, using wood ashes and sand, or covering with pine saps, but favors a dark, smoke-house kept ham storage as the cheapest and most effective. It notes two year old hams taste best when kept in darkness for protection.
A farmer outlines methods to feed cows by placing small tubs in pasture and soil, noting salt and ashes as additives. The text discusses intake effects and suggests salt use sparingly, about once a week, to avoid injury while maintaining vigor.
Fragmentary wartime style note describes using carbonate of lime and lime water to treat worms on house plants and oleanders. Mentions mixing carbonate of lime with warm water and applying weekly to protect stock and branches, with unclear steps and outcomes.
A fragment from a local paper discusses bird protection laws and Moses era scripture. It mentions Deuteronomy and adds notes on a one hundred dollar certificate, agricultural input, and rabbinic commentary, alongside a correspondent's claim about a tea preparation method.
The article lists several August blossoms to seek in woods and fields near Bute, including False Violet, False Foxglove, sunflowers, Rattle snake Plantain, Boneset varieties, Eupatorium ageratorides, Stoneroot, Purple Coneflower, Purple Fringed Orchis, Blazing Star, and Cardinal flower. It closes with reflections on creation and a humorous echo anecdote about an Irish duke’s breakfast.
A teacher recounts how echoes teach children about sound and consequence. The piece recalls personal memories of schoolyard echoes, the moral that wrong actions echo back, and explains how sound travels and returns as echoes in various settings like caves and rivers.
A summary of August literary notices includes price changes for leading dailies, Harper’s Bazar and Harper’s Magazine features with noted contributors, Eclectic Magazine content, and announcements for Milwaukee Monthly specimen copies. Also mentions James De Mille’s new novel An Open Question in Appleston’s Journal and various horticultural and agricultural journals.
The Aldine expands with Perkin’s Raymondskill scenes and The Old Oaken Bucket by John S. Davis. It features Burling Blue Birds, Cary’s Old Squaw Pounding Cherries, and Miles Standish court ship. Includes Pushkin and other stories, poems, editorials, and two $5 subscriptions with an oil chrome.
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