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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1872
Page
8
Kate confronts Julia as accusations fly about a betrothal tainted by deceit. Mrs Acton declares the suitor a liar while Kate defends her choice against pressure from family and fear of scandal. The scene pivots on promised marriage, truth, and possible ruin.
A call to farmers in Stephenson County to submit articles on farming topics for publication. Instruction asks plain writing, single-paper-side use, and publication by the Farmerty.
Mr. Compton, author of a prize essay on potato cultivation, reports using plaster on vines from planting through the season yields remarkable results. The method: light first application, heavier second, then regular dousings totaling about two hundred pounds per acre. Plaster improves leaf color, resists fungi, keeps tubers sound and rot free. a split-field test showed 60 bushels per acre without plaster versus 300 bushels with plaster, all sound.
A reader seeks veterinary remedies for a mare with farcy and abortion after foaling. Rural Home notes the mare’s condition is dire and unlikely to recover with remedies. The column offers advice requests and includes tips from The Turf, Wield and Farm on salt ashes and sulphur for horses, and cites Suffolk Punches’ stubborn dead-pull.
Beet Batsing describes beet farming as the most labor efficient and profitable forage for cows. He reports feeding two cows on sixty rods of land produced 150 bushels, with milk output high and tops fed as fall feed. He outlines soil preparation, thinning, and a method to produce beet syrup from two bushels yielding a gallon of syrup. He notes a worm problem in orchards and a tar-based banding remedy. An obituary mood closes with a child mishearing a hymn about a dead brother.
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