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Newspaper
Freeport Weekly Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1865
Page
2
A rural piece offers recipes to improve stale bread into meals like Mick Toast and Bread Peporse, and describes methods for dressing bread with milk eggs and butter. It also warns boys about overdriving cows, stressing humane treatment to protect milk quality and urges avoiding dogs chasing cattle, per Ploughman.
A successful fowl manager explains in Country Gentlemen how to produce eggs in winter. Keep feed and clean water constantly accessible, provide shells and bones, vegetables, boiled potatoes and turnips, and scraps daily. Feed cold, not hot, with a mix of corn and oats, meat scraps not from hot markets, and ensure warm, clean, airy quarters. The hens are described as machines for making eggs, needing constant grain and nourishment.
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