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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1877
Page
7
An aged clerk sits on a high stool amid papers and books and recalls youthful schemes to amass wealth through commerce. He imagines a grand home and power, but the future coldly shows consequences as his plans unravel and he remains merely a clerk amid snow and rain.
In France poultry breeding has become a science with limited whole grain. A popular feed mixes one-half bran with one-half buckwheat barley or oatmeal as a stiff paste fed twice daily. The approach claims lower cost and enhanced laying while abundant whole grain can fatten yet cause digestion problems. Buckwheat is praised as a strong egg laying stimulant.
A well stocked garden adds comfort to a farmer's family. Grow trees bushes canes and vines in rows eighty feet apart for plowing. Plant vegetables in drills with horse cultivation, using manures to produce gooseberries currants raspberries and blackberries for home use and market, plus carrots parsnips beets rutabagas corn cabbage and potatoes to feed livestock.
A long argued point shows cows left in unprotected barns lose more over winter than those kept in warm stalls. Calculations assume hay at 15 per ton, ten cows needing extra feed of 50 pounds daily for 112 days, totaling about 42 dollars per animal. even with 4 months of exposure the loss exceeds five dollars per head, prompting farmers to invest in ventilated but warm barns and repair old structures to save fodder and improve animal comfort.
A farmer recounts using Iron Clad Milk Pans in a 10 by 12 foot milk room from April to December. The system reduced labor by about three quarters, aided by cooling milk to 60 to 65 degrees, with a stationary thermometer on each pan. He notes hot weather harmed butter quality and describes cooling methods and milk yields, including a June 12 milk sample of 476 pounds yielding 28 pounds of butter from the cream.
A dairy report from Oneida County lists monthly milk-to-butter yields from July to October, averaging 20.25 pounds of milk per pound of butter. With 17 cows, total butter produced reached 38,130 pounds, packed in 60 pound tubs except spring butter in 50 pound tubs. The note urges winter cow care for summer pay.
An Ohio farmer tested steaming food versus dry feed with 300 ewes split into two groups. One fed hay and clover, the other steamed fodder corn mixed with bran and water. Results justified steam systems, supporting 20 horses, 20 cattle, 1600 sheep. Steam feeding reduced hay needs and yielded better wool quality and higher market price.
A Rural New Yorker column explores changing beard fashion and social opinions on facial hair, recounting a deacon vs grocer exchange about beards, then a wife and sister anecdote. It links barbering to health and decorum, mixes humor with cultural commentary, and ends with an ad for Dr. J H McLean products.
Move the rings and lift the eggs one by one into a strainer. Serve on browned buttered toast halves. Place a small butter piece on each egg, season with pepper, and garnish with parsley. Serve hot.
A group of Black Hills miners trade tall tales by a campfire. One man boasts sight to spot Indians a mile away while another claims hearing gnats four miles off. Others recount hearing mountain sheep, Chinese workers, and petrified trees turning deer and birds into stone. The piece ends with a quip about hiring a great American novelist to write about these feats for ten dollars per word.
A compact 19th century collated ad-like piece extols Dr. Pierce and related remedies for coughs catarrh and consumption. It touts The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser and includes various medical claims and notices about refunds and patent medicines. The text also mentions Durang's external remedy for rheumatism and a Chicago Scale Co price list.
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