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Newspaper
Freeport Weekly Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1870
Page
2
The department invites farmers and anyone connected with Stephenson County Farming to submit articles. Write plainly and publish on one side of the paper for readers in Barmera and surrounding areas.
The Damascus club records a January 1870 gathering discussing youth recreation and farmer education. Attendance was strong, with music by Miss Ault and Mr Aigley. Remarks by Mr Malnix praised, and notes include a farmer’s discussion on schooling, parental cooperation, and avoiding term gaps. Anxious adjournment followed. A farmer reports cattle improve eating ashes and bones, with leaded ashes used in barnyard and pasture to boost health.
During the current season guest fowls over a year old shed feathers as moulting continues into cold weather. Moulting is a natural process not a disease, but it strains fowls. Keep birds warm and feed warm stimulating fare such as boiled carnival Sedained with salt and pepper, chopped fats, and mashed potatoes.
An old parable about a baker overstepping bread quotas and a parrot exposing excess bread. The preacher warns against exposing neighbors faults and urges reticence about bread and master praise to save one’s necks amid adversity.
The Scientific American recounts a wide range of postmortem horse products. Blood feeds albumen and sugar refining, hair aids cloth and brushes, skin becomes leather for harness and boots, hooves yield combs and glue, flesh yields oil and food, bones supply buttons, utensils, and bone-black, teeth replace ivory, and bones furnish phosphorus for matches and medicines.
Dr Allyne argues that domestic labor provides the best full body development for girls and young women. He contends school calisthenics are helpful but insufficient, urging year after year hardiness, muscle, endurance, and balanced temperament for health and social happiness.
A reader recalls a tale from a tax collector about declaring two thousand dollars income for the past year. A neighbor questions the amount, and the man explains he earned one thousand cash by running his own business and another thousand by letting others' business be.
A four year old girl at a father's house asks if the man named Joseph is the one sold by his brothers. He answers that he has been sold many times. The child expresses pity, saying she is sorry for him.
A long miscellany of wry quips, homely jokes, and quick witticisms. The items riff on court, beer, teetotalers, and midsummer foibles, interspersed with oddities about dentistry, beetles, a tigerish will, and a castle of compound humor. Names, places, and dates drift through a potpourri of light verse and sharp one-liners.
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