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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1877
Page
7
Agricultural notes advise farmers to optimize dairy profits by consistent milking times, gentle handling, clean quarters, regular exercise, ample clean water, and steady access to hay and corn fodder. Proper feeding and sanitation yield purer, richer milk and better butter, with small extra costs outweighing gains.
A 19th century digest prints farming tips on slips and propagation. It stresses warm air and bottom heat for rooting, sand starting medium, open air planting in early fall, and ventilation to prevent damp off. It includes a Southdowns snapshot: hornless, brown faced sheep, hardy and fattening by 12–15 months, yielding fine wool and high market value.
Farmers are advised to employ poisoning with prepared rooms to lure pests, using safe alternatives to dangerous poisons. Start with nonlethal bait, then place a dedicated chamber for poisons, keep water nearby, and rotate trap locations to outsmart migratory rats and mice. Poison options include plaster of Paris with oatmeal and barytes mixed with lard, as reported by the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser.
A collection of old time kitchen recipes for sponge cake custards and lemon and chocolate cakes with notes on silver care and a long travel narrative from the Suez Canal aboard a small steam launch from Ismailia to Port Said. The voyage describes the canal’s deep banks, 190 foot width, 26 foot depth, 100 mile length, and a night passage past seven ships without interaction. Port Said is praised as a healthy resort with local wildlife nearby.
Boil salted tails soaked in lukewarm water with four onions a parsley bunch peppercorns a turnip carrot and three quarts of water until tender about two and a half hours. Slice meat small then thicken with browned flour and top fat, strain, rejoin meat, boil and skim, season with mushroom ketchup and pepper.
The prose contrasts prodigals with nature’s bounty and urges readers to buy The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser by R V Pierce M D Buffalo NY. It argues wasteful living harms health and riches, while right living and a mapped homeward path restore body and mind. Price 1.50 postage prepaid.
The article blends a dramatic theatre dialogue from Chicago Journal with a Victorian auction anecdote about an eminent English physician and a cache of medical quackery. It extols Purson’s Purgative Pills and Darang’s Rheumatic Remedy, touts Matchless plug tobacco, and promotes Brown’s Bronchial Troches and a Monany Bansau cough remedy, with testimonials and vendor claims.
In and Co of Boston along with J E Ditson and Co successors to Les and Walker of Philadelphia are listed in an advertisement presenting their business connection and continuity in sports goods supply.
A humorous discussion defines corn in several senses from vegetable to animal varieties. It jokes about corn on ears and toes, acorns on oaks, and even corn dodgers created by stepping on someone’s corned toe. The piece satirizes doctors, farmers, and tight boots with light, playful lines. Hartford
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