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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1879
Page
8
A jumbled collection of historical notes and anecdotes touches on abolition debates, stray quotes, and curious scenes from daily life. It mentions bee keeping, wine yields, and butter tubs, with scattered references to ships, Paris, and a window view of a mining town in Colorado.
A collection of kitchen recipes and home garden guidance. Recipes include Coffee Cake with coffee and molasses, Rice and Pea Soup with stock and cream, Veal with Tomato Sauce, and Browned Sugar for Gravies. Gardening guidance emphasizes grass lawns, drainage, and careful use of paths and trees for a neat, lasting landscape.
The fennec or Sahara fox inhabits Nubia and Egypt. It is a small, lively creature about a foot long with a bushy tail and pale fawn to creamy white fur. It climbs date palms, feeds on fruit, and dwells underground like other foxes, its blue eyes and long white whiskers noted.
A father asks his son about rods in a furlong. The boy replies he does not know and jokes that one rod would become an actor after a tanning from Scroggins at school.
Advice on feeding based on work load and winter care for horses. Notes on hay, grain, chaffed straw, and oats official feeding amounts for light to heavy work. Emphasizes grooming, gypsum flooring to reduce ammonia odor, and proper ventilation to keep stalls free of pests and eye irritation.
The Massachusetts Plowman argues that farm breeders achieve better animal performance than buying stock. Careful selection of offspring from proven animals yields faster, more uniform fattening. Needing time for acclimation, purchased young stock may underperform. Breeding on the farm is more profitable in most cases.
Boston claims as the nation’s jelly capital, several firms produce cheap jelly labeled as various fruits. The paste is mainly apple-based gelatine colored and flavored to imitate fruit, selling at about 14 cents a pound, roughly half the price of real fruit jelly. Boston also dominates raspberry jam production with eight firms yielding about 500 tons yearly sold at 10 cents per pound from dried raspberries.
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington has obtained 184 species of Japanese fish, nearly complete for the Empire, well labeled in Latin and English. The collection arrives under the exchange system used by scientific societies worldwide. Earlier exchanges included North American birds to Tokio and South American birds to the museum of the educational department.
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