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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1876
Page
7
A poem recounts ancient Jerusalem with the Mount, the temple's gold, and heavenly incense. It contrasts Bolom and the Promised Lord with Knights and Emirs, noting centuries of faith, conflict, and the crescent atop the ruined walls. The piece ends with a call to prayer echoing across a moonlit sky.
Rural notes advise extending the milking season to ten to ten and a half months. Cows yielding forty pounds daily at peak may fall behind younger stock by year end, while cows with steadier, longer production endure the year. Promote longer lactation and appropriate feeding to maximize overall yield.
The July work centers on pruning and destroying injurious insects. Prune early in July to promote quick wound healing and bark cover. Remove superfluous shoots to protect tree vigor. neglect leads to later heavy pruning. Inspect recently planted trees, straighten wind-bent trunks, and mulch roots. Crops yield from a young orchard, but cereals deplete soil and hinder tree growth.
The text explains the value of refuse salt as a manure in Michigan farming. It covers salt’s roles in supplying soda and chlorine, attracting moisture, its solubility, promotion of putrefaction, forming compounds with lime, and insect control. It notes salt used with barnyard manure increases turnip yields and that salt plus plaster is a strong manure. It cautions against excessive use which can damage seeds and plants.
Farmers favor mixing milk, a dairy byproduct, with corn meal to feed piglets after weaning. The New England Farmer argues milk should be used as a supplement rather than a purchase, noting digestion limits of solid corn meal in young animals and that growth, not fat, should guide feeding.
Fragmented text appears to discuss crop yields and phases with figures like 700 bushels and 1000. It references The Advocate and Roel Crepe and mentions Canada and Turni. Most details are garbled, leaving key facts and entities uncertain.
The article argues root crops are affordable for farmers despite labor costs. Mangolds yield 600 to 1000 bushels per acre with expenses totaling 28 dollars. Sugar beets offer similar yields and both improve livestock health, especially when fed with roots alongside dry fodder.
A Times correspondent notes gypsum must be dissolved in water and absorbed by roots to affect plants. Plaster applied before rain washed away loses color and growth advantage, while plaster left dry after a shower remains yellow and slows growth. Leaves or dry soil show no fertilizer effect.
A collage of kitchen instructions for cheese sauce and oat cakes, walnut dye, lemon brandy, and yeast making. It also includes consumer remedies praising Dr Pierce’s medicines, Johnson’s Anodyne, and various tonics, with promotional notes and vendor details.
An advertisement touts Cuaprep handy for pimples ring worms salirhéum and other skin conditions claiming to cure them and soften rough skin using Juniper Tar Soap. It warns against imitations from common tar made by Caswell Hazard Co New York as worthless.
A Kafir from the knob-nosed tribe sought fortune in the diamond fields and paid tribute to Janka Janks. He is seized when ill and punished by eye removal and nose cutting. His wife and child suffer similar fates before bodies are disposed in a river. A threaten trial for murder awaits.
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