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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1876
Page
3
The poem speaks of a pressed gentian as a Christmas token hung in a northern window. It contrasts outward blindness with inward grace, noting the flower’s hidden beauty seen only by loving eyes. The speaker reflects on the Eternal eye that reads the soul beyond partial judgments. St Nicholas for March.
A London Agricultural Gazette note contends that Yorkshire shoppers prefer colored cheese, wrongly thinking it richer. It argues plain cheese is genuine, while colored types are often adulterated with annatto to produce a green tint. The piece warns taste would reject annatto if tried.
A Country Gentleman correspondence describes pumpkins fed to nine cows kept in a cornfield dairy. The herd produces about six pounds of butter weekly, plus milk and cream for a household of sixteen. Six heifer calves grow fat, cattle overall fatter than many slaughtered. Pumpkins chopped in manger noon and night, half a bushel per feeding, cows milking morning and night. Beets carrots and other roots will follow to sustain winter milk.
A detailed early 19th century guide instructs selecting a south slope plot, burning brush, cooling, spreading ashes into soil, digging two and a half inches, mixing ashes with soil, leveling, removing roots, marking plots four feet apart, mixing one tablespoon seed with a gallon of sieved ashes, sowing in two directions, trampling to embed, ditches to shed water, protecting with brush, and sowing from January to April with adjustments for late sowing.
Farmers across the West and East struggle with straw piles. Build a three sided shelter with rails and poles near threshing for cattle to shelter, feed on field corn, and dung to spread later. Move the shelter as needed to reuse stakes, and create manure.
The text argues grass receives little attention compared with corn, wheat, and barley. It notes clover survives on residual manures and benefits from strategic handling. If farmers treated clover fields with the same care as other crops, soil quality and farm productivity would improve.
The article advises farmers to mellow and pulverize soil, grow large clover crops, and use light gypsum dressings of about 100 pounds per acre in early spring. It recommends mulch by clover to retain moisture, applying well rotted manure from barn yard scrapings in fall, and protection from freezing by a thin manure cover. Rich earth from fence corners can be used to nourish young clover if ground is firm, with coarse manure suitable if the field won’t be moved next season.
A neighbor sought a simple way to store ice for a season without a traditional ice house. The article explains using an existing shed or a cheap surface structure, about twelve by eight feet, with sawdust floor, good air flow, and plank siding. It suggests locating near livestock, washing the ice in cattle troughs before use, and emphasizes practicality over appearance.
The London Live Stock Journal notes shorthorns dominate London dairies as purebreds and crosses form the bulk of the metropolitan milk supply. A Prairie Farmer correspondent reports four bells per 100 sheep deter dog and wolf predation. Rural New Yorker cites cows living long, milking ten months yearly, while Rural Home finds deeper potato planting yields 20 to 25 percent more. Nest-boxes should be movable and cleaned, often by whitewashing or burning to purge vermin. Country Gentleman explains plaster aids plant nitrogen uptake through decomposition. An anonymous tip suggests using Indian meal with strychnine to control rats, detailing placement and timing to avoid alarm.
A domestic recipe excerpt describes a dish mixing equal parts fat bacon and lean veal with sage salt and pepper. The ingredients include sugar eggs butter and a method involving dipping beating rolling and frying. The text reads as a fragmented home kitchen instruction.
A collection of kitchen and household notes detailing crullers with lemon flavoring, dumplings, buns, and breads, plus tips for hair care and an indelible red ink recipe. It pairs baking instructions with practical health and craft tips, reflecting home economy guidance.
An overview traces hops from early objections in Henry VI's era to later endorsements under Henry VIII and Queen Anne. It notes acts restricting adulteration under George III, and mentions uses beyond beer, such as fiber for cloth and edible shoots. An anecdote from East Weymouth Mass describes a horse delivering a family to church.
Obituary sketch of Francis Deak detailing his Spartan life and refusals of titles wealth and office. He lived modestly in a small apartment, rode public transport, and declined a carriage. His only legacy was care for Petery’s three penniless orphans, funded by a nation’s generosity, making him rich in love rather than wealth.
The piece argues that friendship fluctuates with time and events, and we should not judge friends harshly for every new issue. It notes how long bonds, even after decades, surprise or disappoint us, and tells of an old woman who aged from crabby to gentle, illustrating that character can soften with time. It ends: we never know our friends, and they, in turn, never know us.
The February milder winter yields early spring signs with blue birds pigeons and songbirds reported around February 12 near lake shore groves. Frogs murmuring in streams, and other cheer, affirm life’s return as the era shifts toward vernal warmth amid mixed observations and old proverbs.
A Russian noble visits the French national institution to view a priceless gold medal said to be unique. While inspecting the medal of Constantine Chlorus it vanishes from view as the visitor claims it slipped from his grasp. Curators, guarding the rare coins, scrutinize the stranger as suspicions arise about the loss.
A Manufacturers Trade Journal note describes a Paris invented submarine carriage crossing the channel and navigating deep rivers. It is built of galvanised iron, hermetically sealed, light in water so it rises, and driven by two air powered screws aboard an eight wheeled rail truck. It includes electric lighting, a sealed passenger entrance, strong windows, a roof raft and a diver's stern chamber.
Yoncker of Hancock County paid $50 for a wife through Samuel Wickham, who arranged the match with widow Oren in Sandusky. Wickham sued Yoncker for a fee but the justice ruled against him, leaving Wickham out the costs and quitting the wife procuring business.
A proposal lies before the Prussian ministry of agriculture to grant prizes for well managed dairy farms as is customary in East Flanders. The move aims to promote high farming standards and reward effective husbandry among farmers.
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