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Newspaper
Galesville Transcript
Location
Galesville, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1861
Page
3
A farmer describes his practical method for making butter, detailing milk handling, cream preparation, chilling and churning, washing, salting, aging, and packing. He emphasizes cleanliness, temperature control from 58 to 64 degrees Fahrenheit, daily summer churning, and careful avoiding overworking to preserve texture and flavor. The note is dated Lake Up, Illinois, January 34, 1861.
Davenport Gazette correspondent recounts conflicting 19th century accounts of Chief Black Hawk. He disputes sitting burial on the Des Moines river bank and Schoolcraft’s description, notes death near Townville in Wapello County on October 3, 1839, and describes the white fashion burial close to his home site. He records survey bearings and the war club at the grave, plus later reports of bones moved to Warsaw and eventually consumed with Burlington Historical Society artifacts.
A column extols garden care for women as a wholesome, elevating activity linking domestic happiness with practical horticulture. It discusses utilitarian value, beauty, and social refinement, urging mothers and sisters to tend plants, and notes fruit varieties and dyeing uses from Chinese sorghe. A light anecdote on proofreading errors closes.
A note on a method by Al Carre to produce ice using two connected iron bottles and ammoniacal gas. Heat drives gas from the ammonia solution into the second bottle where it liquefies under pressure, then cools to freeze water. The cycle repeats without disconnecting, claiming ice costs five pence per hundredweight.
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