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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1872
Page
8
A long string of quips and anecdotes touches on fashion, manners, and daily life. Topics include a seamstress exclaiming, a pun about a ship and a scarf pin, jokes about governors, a tonic promising to help swallow an elephant, and stories about weddings, sprees, and social foibles. It reads like a humorous collage from a rural paper.
Practical guidance from the Stock Journal on horse feeding for work and winter, stable warmth and ventilation, bedding choices, grooming with the curry comb, and daily cleaning routines. It emphasizes balanced rations using hay, oats, straw, and roots, plus bedding like sawdust, and warns against high mangers and neglectful cleaning.
The Kansas horticultural note explains pruning in winter is possible with measures to curb evaporation from fresh cuts. It warns buds may shrivel from winter drying and advises delaying pruning until spring if possible. A protective coating such as white lead and oil can prevent moisture loss. gum shellac is now less common due to cracking.
Two rules guide a party through a garden. Do not take strangers into the sunlit areas first and avoid revealing the best scenes too soon. Lead visitors gradually to a sequence that ends with the grand finale, ensuring they leave with a lasting, favorable impression.
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