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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1872
Page
3
The paper invites Stephenson County farmers and athletes to send in topics related to local farming for publication. Readers are asked to write plainly and print on one side of the paper only, with a brief contribution of about three items or points.
At a late meeting of the Michigan Pomological Society Prof A J Cook of Michigan Agricultural College spoke on destructive insects. He described the codling moth the fall webworm borers and bark lice and offered remedies such as hay or straw bands hot water washing whale oil soap tar and fresh earth. He urged establishing a State Entomologist and said the association should work to make it a state official like the geologist.
This excerpt describes training young steers in winter and summer before they are a year old, teaching them to draw, go forward, stop, and gee with minimal whip use. It notes securing a steer with a rope for safety, then using a light sled and descending ground to teach backing, and refrains from plowing with four year olds without a driver.
A local farm outlines a potato growing method suitable for grassy ground. After plowing and harrowing, seed potatoes are dropped in rows, covered with a two horse coverer, and guarded against rolling. If grass appears, two horses plow between rows to suppress growth, followed by harrowing. Potatoes resurface in days, then cultivation proceeds with a one horse cultivator and shovel plow until harvest.
A Furviers Monae Journal article urges keeping 125 fowls in a quarter acre orchard to control bugs and pests among trees. The author, with about 100 birds, reports cleaner ground, fewer pests, and better growth, claiming poultry may be the key to good bearing in apple orchards.
A collage of humorous quips and satirical lines on politics and public figures. References include Greeley, Bryant, Harper’s Ferry, and the Baltimore Convention. The item blends jokes about law, temperance, suffrage, and the press with social commentary on parties and leadership.
A narrator recalls finding a wounded robin, nursing it at home with worm hash, cedar nest, and patient care. The bird heals, returns briefly, then leaves with its mate. Years later the narrator reflects on Robins return, parting, and the odds of seeing him again, pondering human faithfulness.
The passage argues children have a strong craving for sugar and candy. It cautions against denying this desire, suggesting that unmet wants harm health and teeth more than candy consumption, advocating feeding children in measured amounts based on a rational appetite principle.
Lancaster in Reformed Church on Sunday Aug 4 at 10 44 am and Harlem in Gor Tay Church on Aug 11 with Waddams Center Sept 1 at 10 04 am Jefferson Evangelical and Loran Outherai Church attendances listed. meetings extend through Sept 20. Foster County agent notes exhortation on faith and perseverance.
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