Remarkable Illinois farmer Strawn built vast holdings and wealth
The longtime landowner and cattle dealer Strawn rose from 15 cents to become a major figure in Illinois farming. He owned thousands of acres, helped build Jacksonville, served in the Legislature, and was known for energy and enterprise. He kept no books, trusted memory, and once repelled robbers with a cattle whip.
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Jacksonville
Danied Lambert
Strawn
Tie
Alton
Clover as a Manure and the Clover-Wheat Cycle
A speaker extols clover boosted by gypsum as the best manure for cost efficiency, citing a Syracuse farmer whose fifty years of farming backs practical results. The narrative traces a yearly sequence: plowing in clover seed, sowing wheat, hay harvest, and future crops, arguing clover soil enrichment over decades.
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Jon
George Geddes
Onondaga
Onondaga County
Syracuse
Acre
Profitable Cranberry Culture Report
A Boston Advertiser correspondent recounts a swamp land cranberry operation with minimal care yielding five pecks per square rod. At four dollars a bushel the rod returns five dollars, equating to about eight hundred dollars per acre. the land is only flooded in winter to cut ice.
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Boston Advertiser
de Por Tas
Let the Ground Dry For Safe Garden Work
Advice urges gardeners to wait for soil to dry after heavy rains before tilling or planting. Work while moist damages soil. crumble and loosen when dry enough to crumble and steam. Additionally a short tale shows a neighbor’s quarrel halted by silent snapping of tongs. moral: two people are needed for a quarrel.
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Jacob Strawn
Legislature
New York
J. W. Porter & CO
Thomas Long
Stephenson St
Freeport Illinois
RE. L. Cronekrite
Stopes
Pelce’s
Bell. Cronkrite
Kear & Delhauer
Chicago St
Freeport Journal
R. Pelce
Vee
Preeport
J. R. Rosebrougits
Freeport
Baltimore
Sand
Iran
Middleditch& Potter
GEO, Ie, Lochy, Sup's Por Jill, Coal and Tron Co, of
Lasalle
Upta
Chicago Street
Post Omce
Galen Streets
Chicago
Middleditch & Potter
Joins & Crosley
Stephenson
Carroll and Ogte
Tlinois
G. M. Clayton & Brother
Lstf GS. Dicky
River Street
Journal Office
J. 3
Snyder's
Stephanson Street
Callan Ik
Louis F. Burrell
Wostenholm
New-York
Burrell's
Stephenson Street
J. Mayer & Sons
Harnish
Stephenson+Street
Exchange
Cooke
J Mayer & Sons
Hegal
Stephenson County
Ilinois
William G. Waddell
Francis Foley
Trance Foley
Martha M. Wade
Everett L. Wade
Rutha Foley
Debba Foley
John Foley
Electa Ambrose
Ambrose
Martha Powell
Jane Powell
George Powell
Francis Jesse Myers
Levi Myers
George Thompson
Stephenson County Court
Bailey & Brawley
Marcus Wingart
Court House
Illinois
Barton
Nathan Clark
Jared Sheets
Lee
Emily M. Bowker
Samuel F. Dodds
Keeport
Stoskopf
Lena
Pickard
State of
Chat
V.stuskopf
CG. Burchard. Dows
Reat Estalte
Dames Vian Pelt
A.D. Lsu
Iinois
Walper CG. van Pel
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Wim
Rhodes
M. Greer
Aresical
Ellers
Baltimore, Fairfield Co
Ohio
A. L. Simmons
Rn. E. Sruens
Bais
R. E. Sellers & Co
Pittsburg
Sellers Liver Pills
Penn
Johnson
Andrew Armstrong
James Street
Alleghany City
Rt. E. Sellers & Co
Svareres
R. Knapp & Son
America
Catarreh
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