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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1873
Page
8
An agricultural notice explains using powdered sulphur as a cheap, effective dust bath to control lice on setting hens and their chicks. Apply after the eggs hatch, dusting the hen and nest area, repeating a week later for best results. Tobacco and other powders are discouraged.
A late New Jersey legislature debate centers on tax exemptions for beet sugar makers. Prof Geo H Cook of New Jersey Agricultural College urges trials in beet cultivation, noting beets yield up to 20 tons per acre and serve as cattle feed. On state farm plots Silesian beets yielded 18 tons, Nursery nine tons. beets cut in May. Farmers would receive about $5 per ton, with winter employment preserved for laborers.
About fifty workers left Chi for the Sullivant farm in Ford County to begin summer work. Another group from the East has gone, with about 125 to be employed by May 5. The 43,000 acre farm has 175 workers this season and 20,000 acres planned for corn. The text covers wages, housing, and stations for cooking and dining, plus notes on tobacco and cigars and anecdotes about smoking and a boy named Leroy.
This reading traces early Christian worship in simple, obscure buildings to the evolution of church architecture. It notes wooden seats, galleries, and cross bars with occupant initials, the pew system after the Reformation, later comfort-focused arrangements, and contrasts costly yet inefficient churches with economical, accessible designs.
A long passage collects quotes urging charity in judging others, severity in judging self, and the need for God-centered sincerity over worldly success. It contrasts quiet, luminous virtue with loud declamation and warns against hidden sins and boastfulness, citing Robertson, Parker, Ruskin, Laodicea, and Swianock.
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