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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1876
Page
8
Local column requests readers to submit correspondence and questions about farming, clubs, and community topics. Instructions encourage sending hat and post to the post office and promise treas with each article, hoping for reader interest and faith in the process.
Loring argues for placing manure into the soil rather than surface topdressing. He recommends deep enough to access heat and moisture but not so deep as to cut off atmospheric warmth, advocating mixing with the soil for grass and corn. He prescribes harrowing manure into ploughed land and a light hilltop fertilization for corn, asserting that heated, decomposed material aids root uptake.
A list from Mr Soyer, cook at the London Reform Club, claims per person lifetime consumption includes 30 oxen 200 sheep 100 calves 200 lambs 40 pigs 1200 chickens 300 turkeys 263 pigeons 140 pounds salmon 120 pounds other fish 80000 oysters 43 pounds vegetables 24384 pounds butter 24000 eggs 414 tons bread 3000 gallons tea and coffee resides tons fruit barrels of sweet suets and hogsheads of wine.
A veterinary report describes finding a worm in a horse's foot corn. The worm measured about three eighths of an inch, with black and white ends, and was located near the sole and flesh. After removal and nitric acid treatment the corn disappeared and the horse was cured.
A farmer explains in candid notes that building a new barn with ample windows improves work, cattle care, and overall comfort. He argues residents prefer bright, well lit spaces over dark ones.
The text discusses sowing corn stubble in spring to create a tolerable feed for sheep. It suggests light land management improves suitability for a crop of wheat over oats, and notes keeping land clean while sheep feed will enrich the land proportional to its use.
A critique traces the alliance between Boss Tweed and Peter B. Sweeny with Samuel J. Tilden in the 1860s New York machine, alleging forged returns and bribery to swing votes for Hoffman and Seymour, while condemning Tilden as a reformer unfit to lead. It cites arrests, sheriff actions, and the Dix administration as context, arguing for Cooper and reform instead.
Major-General W. Slocum led the Twenty-seventh New York at Bull Run when a red-shirted fire Zouave was spotted in a ground hole. Slocum ordered the man to advance, but the Zouave defiantly mocked the commander with a Mossy nose gesture.
A reflective maxim deems sightless truth as guiding light and warns against claiming knowledge one does not possess. It cautions humility before insight and the peril of presuming understanding without evidence.
Train schedules show Freeport departures for Illinois Central, Chicago and North Western, Western Union lines with passenger, mail, and freight services. Times vary by day, with northbound and southbound arrivals to St. Louis and Chicago, plus Rock Island connections and general agent notices.
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