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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1868
Page
6
The speaker outlines the university as a healthful trunk for civil engineering agriculture horticulture mechanics and related studies. He emphasizes producing educated vigorous men for industrial pursuits over pure learned professions and stresses practical labor as essential to farming education.
At the convention the Currants Committee recommended Red Dutch White Dutch and Victoria currants with Winter Grape and Cherry for limited cultivation in northern Illinois. Long Branch Holland added for trial. A strawberries panel proposed Wilson’s Albany for distant markets Green Prolific Russell’s Prolific and other varieties for near markets with further trials.
A county meeting covers grape suitability for market with Clinton and Concord notes, Delaware debate, and recommendations. Sessions on peach tree protection describe trenching, mulching, and grafting, plus ash tree growth and timber quality and future forest concerns.
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