04 Oct 1871
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1871
Page
1
Community department invites farmers of Stephenson County to submit plain written notes on farming topics for publication. Submissions should be one side of the paper and use clear language.
Col Wm Sweet of South Paris VT discusses dairy cow management at a Vermont Dairymen’s Association meeting. He advocates high quality feed, steamed foods, and careful handling to boost milk yields, noting a ten-cow operation can be more profitable than twenty with poorer yields. He recommends clover, timothy, corn fodder late in season, warm stables, regular milking, and humane treatment. The piece then shifts to a meditation on the role of a good wife, arguing moral influence, restraint, and domestic virtue guide both household harmony and a man’s conduct, including avoidance of intoxication and gambling.
In every orchard this year apples ad pears must be disposed of as markets shrink. Perfect fruit should be dried in autumn to supply the kitchen next year. Sound unripe fruit may be pressed for cider or vinegar, stored and skimmed for drinking. Winter pears grafted on oak roots and climbs on elm trees advised.
A collection of aphorisms on beauty virtue and folly from Don Quixote era lore. It warns that beauty is fragile distant and praise comes easily to women while noting human flaws and ironies. The lines mix proverbs about restraint humor virtue and persistence with playful warnings about fate and effort.
A collection of quirky quotes and light anecdotes includes remarks on hedgehogs, varied proverbs, a dentist's office described as a drawing room, stray cattle behavior, and a joke about a chandelier for a church. It also recounts a Scot county incident with a wooden Indian and musings on career, virtue, and politeness.
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