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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1882
Page
3
A collage of comic snippets and banter travails across topics from slang and misheard lines to jokes about vaccination, weather, literature, and a Brooklyn jail kiss. The piece weaves Victorian jokes, cartoonish quips, and odd anecdotes, preserving the era’s playful, chaotic newspaper vibe.
H Talcott of Cincinnati Grange Baliain describes a two way drilling method for oats. He recommends: prepare two seed beds, plow under manure if available, or apply 200 to 900 pounds of fertilizer per acre, harrow finely, sow 1 bushel of oats per acre, apply 100 to 125 pounds of phosphate per acre, and parley yields ranging from 54 to 60 bushels per acre up to 60 bushels. Wheat is advised against with this method due to risk.
The article argues farming should shift from muscle to mind. It highlights professional men and foremen from diverse fields guiding farms, using capital and planning to boost outputs. It describes hiring a skilled foreman on salary with profit shares, aligning labor, manure, rotations, and marketing to maximize profits.
A concisely described view notes farms near cities raise land values and attract capital to diverse enterprises. The passage highlights urban proximity as a key factor influencing investment decisions across industries.
A Sacramento dairy driver with years of service quit after his employer revealed a prank. A maid had filled used milk cans with water to soak twenty four hours, then the driver delivered the diluted product. Realizing the deception, he refused to face customers and resigned rather than return.
A dialog describes a Porters lavish mansion and opulent scenes to argue a sleeping car porter owns vast wealth. He earns twelve dollars a month plus meals and sometimes blackets passengers clothes. he also allegedly owns railroads and has twenty congress members as associates. The tale claims his rise from poverty to "top of the heap" through a critique of wage and status.
A widow mother recalls her son Willie, the school’s youngest pupil, who sends a hopeful telegram saying meet me in the morning. He falls ill and dies before dawn, leaving a sorrowful memory and a scrap of his last message. The piece closes with a humorous quip about ostrich kicks and a Japan note.
A discussion from the Brealer's Gazette extols sheep as cosmopolitan, adaptable stock ideal for diverse climates from Nova Zembia to New Zealand. It argues sheep yield fleece and flesh, use less water, fit varied enclosures, and return fertility to soil, urging broader incorporation into American agriculture despite current low numbers.
A Bermudian arrival in York County jail planted tomato seeds in the yard. Prisoners watched green fruit turn red as it ripened. The keeper feared poison but the prisoner ate it and revealed the plant was a tomato, leading to its spread among locals and eventual popular use.
A wary note compares small-pox in the neighborhood to the Canada Thistle menace. It warns that both contagious threats demand prudent self care and vigilance as they spread, urging prompt action before footholds become widespread. The piece emphasizes containment and public health awareness amid troubling outbreaks.
Readers urged immediate action to root out Canada thistle infestations across Wisconsin and nearby regions. The plea stresses early detection, complete removal of roots, and community alarm to prevent spread, warning that mowing is ineffective and land values suffer if the weed flourishes. The message calls on landowners to exterminate every vestige, regardless of land ownership, to keep the state weed free.
The article argues weeds and insect pests account for most labor and risk in crop cultivation. It notes imports spread pests via highways, cites Hessian fly and cabbage moth damage, with losses reaching hundreds of thousands. It mentions Pyrethron as a hoped-for remedy.
An Arkansas countryside tale recounts miners at the Old Jackson Copper Mines near Little River in Sevier county blasting a rock to reach a serpent den. A half pound of dynamite toppled huge rattlers, with eighteen snakes killed and others shattered. one monster measured nearly seven feet, weighing over twenty-six pounds, while eight feet of its body remained. A comic quip follows between a country woman and a parson about education.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a wild compositor forming readers belief about a book and a coroner awaiting action, with garbled phrases about merit and meat and a pit. The text references a coroner and unspecified parties in a legal context.
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