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Newspaper
Freeport Weekly Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1866
Page
2
Fragmentary rural musings discuss soil care drainage and seasonal transplanting schemes. It notes clover manure yields, sugar cane and pineapples in Vermont as unlikely, and stresses leaves as plant lungs while warning of liberty subversion and youth violence against birds.
The article notes 1850 to 1860 demographic changes across regions with male counts in New England, Middle, Western, Southern, and Pacific States. It extols the mule as essential for farm labor, praising endurance and stubbornness, and argues mules will fetch better prices amid broader Southern agricultural improvement, inviting correspondence on the topic.
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