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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1879
Page
6
A Mecklenburgh agricultural society reports experiments on feeding cows whole fodder versus hay cut and chopped. They find whole fodder preserves milk yield and health, improves digestion through saliva mixing, reduces early hunger, and enhances overall condition by aligning with natural chewing habits.
John Stevenson, builder of the first street-car in 1831, has seen nearly 490 U.S. street-railways. American cars now operate in London and across Europe, Canada, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, with plans to expand to Melbourne and Hobartstown.
Farmers are urged to value hen manure more and collect and save droppings from fowl houses. Weekly cleaning with sand on floors and timely handling improve fertilizer value, making it comparable to guano for many crops. The method includes transporting droppings to a storage area and aging before field application.
Historical note discusses how feeding cows apples affects milk quantity and quality. It explains that fall apples fed alongside normal rations can boost milk output, with sweeter and sour varieties mixed, yielding more butter or Reese from a bushel, depending on cows' feeding level and season.
A Philadelphia press report describes a peculiar skin affliction called the Bagdad blotch or red blotch. The condition leaves an indelible red stripe or stain on the face, fore head, and cheek, affecting natives and foreigners alike though it is rarely fatal.
A Dublin bone mill holds thousands of tons of Jurassic fossils dredged from the Bull River in North Carolina. The river’s fifty mile course is studded with petrified teeth vertebrae jaws and limb bones mined by giant crowbats and pile driver dredging. The site yields hundreds of thousands of tons yearly.
In a French journal M Olivia Mathey a chemist from Neufchatel describes making phosphorescent watch dials. Dials use paper or thin cardboard enameled like visiting cards coated with varnish or white wax mixed with turpentine dusted with powdered sulphide of barium.
In a rural district of Forfarshire a ploughman and his partner endure a long silent courtship on a Saturday night. The lad finally balances humor by noting a feather on Jenny's apron, to which she quips that she has been with a goose all night, ending the idle tension with a light retort.
A traveler gives ten cents to a rain-soaked back-driver after three and a half hours of driving. The driver speaks gently offering sympathy and a loan of a dollar with no reproach, telling him to repay when easier and that the rider has the driver’s number.
A younger sister Marion, not yet five winters old, confounds her big brother by claiming she knows the earth turns round. He asks if she knows this, and she retorts that she falls out of bed because of that fact. The tale appears in Youth's Companion style as a playful schoolyard quip.
The bore tests on the French coast suggest feasibility for a Channel tunnel project as geological conditions appear favorable. Yet there is little sign of a prompt, coordinated push by Britain to advance the enterprise amid growing English apathy. The New York Commercial Advertiser lampoons a critics stance on musical criticism despite the ornate prose about orchestral high notes.
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