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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1873
Page
8
In a tense domestic scene, Kate faces pressure from her mother and sisters over an engagement revealed amid telegrams and financial worry. Tom Warner's arrival resolves the dispute, revealing Kate's choice and a wedding that bonds the fractured Acton family.
Mr. Compton reports plaster dusting of potato vines from planting through the season boosts green vigor and tuber development. He notes light first, heavier second, and ample third applications totaling about two hundred pounds per acre, reducing insect damage and fungi. A field with plaster yielded 300 bushels per acre vs 60 on plasterless plots, with all tubers sound and rot free.
Rural readers weigh in on a sick mare diagnosed with farcy describe symptoms before foal birth and seek cures. Replies warn results are unlikely and urge shared experiences on aftercare for mares that abort or slip foals. Advice notes Coxpillox powder for lourses includes salt ashes and sulphur to improve coat and health. Also mentions Suffolk Punches' stubborn pulling tendencies.
A Maine Farmer writer extols sugar beets for feeding cows, noting two tons of hay and sixty rods yielded 150 bushels with good milk output. Describes soil prep, drilling, thinning, top feeding, and syrup from juice. warns on codling worm control and recalls a child’s Twinkle Twinkle anecdote.
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