Westward views on farming states and frontier life
P. W. Conan surveys the agricultural potential of Michigan Indiana Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota Missouri Texas and Nebraska while recounting a trek to Pike's Peak and Fort Laramie. He notes soil, climate and timber, praises Kansas and Indian farms, laments timber scarcity in Kansas Territory, and closes with Lola Montes's death in New York City on January 17.
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Ronan New-Yemaen
Michigan
New York State
Empire State
Indiana
Illinois
Union
Rock River Valley
Wisconsin
New York
Minnesota
Missouri
Kangag
Pike’s Peak
Fort Taramic
Nebraska
Rendo
Fine wool and store order in Merino sheep husbandry
The writer argues that keeping full blood Merino sheep in thrifty store order yields better wool value than overfeeding. He compares 100 sheep yielding four pounds of superfine wool at 50 cents to 80 sheep with five pounds of inferior wool at 40 cents, noting per-pound value drops with heavier fleeces. He cites examples, contests John Johnston’s view that fat for all sheep is best, and asserts on any land the same clean wool can be grown from full bloods in good store order as from fat sheep, criticizing heavy fleeces as a byproduct of excess feed.
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Tom
John Johnston
Pages and Pictures Parody of French Translation Blunder
Mise Cooper notes a humorous translator mistake in her 3 Yate work, misrendering The Spy as Les Sauterelles for grasshoppers. The Locusts residence becomes a caution, with a dragoon tethering a horse to a locust, a comically grand misreading of the scene.
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Luprovots
Mise Cooper
Wharton
Les Sauterelles
Parish Quip About Pews and Pulpit Distance
A waggish parishioner complains to Parsons that his pew sits far from the pulpit. The parson asks if he cannot hear, and the man explains that voices lose life and become flat as they travel through many listeners between him and the pulpit.
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Parsons
Jackson trial ends with Winters bound over on counterfeit orders
A. J. Winters was bound over for trial on a charge of parsing counterfeit school order forms in Stevenstown School District, Jackson, La Crosse County, set at $2,000. Justice Marshall West Snow, charged with a similar crime, waives examination, Bail posted for Snow at $1,000. Winters remains jailed.
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A. J. Winters
Stevenstown
Jackson
la Crosse County
Marshall - West Snow
Winters
Snow
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Kansas
U.S
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Rochester
Texas
P.W. Conan
Lola Montes
New York City
Conesus Center
N. V. An
Swevisn Barroad
Hastern
Sweden
Gothenburg
Stockholm
Sedertalge
N. Ericsson
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