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Newspaper
Pepin County Press
Location
Pepin, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1861
Page
4
The Press expands to a rural domestic department inviting farmers and housewives to share land management methods crop yields and practical tips. Readers are asked to be brief and explicit detailing their experience to benefit others and to show eastern readers the region’s agricultural strength.
The Illinois Agricultural Society grants a premium to IL H Thomas of the state for a grove of timber trees. Seed planted on new ground in 1852 has grown walnuts oaks and maples to about twenty five feet high. The author urges Pepin prairie be ornamented similarly and invites a trial.
Practical farming notes advise sowing early vegetables in seed trenches and using rich soil to speed up germination while preserving roots. It also covers calf rearing with gradual milk introduction, tying calves, and uniform feeding to avoid over or undernourishment, citing awards for sour-milk fed calves.
Fragmentary OCR text discusses water and landscape features in New York with scattered names and terms. references to places, people, and possible studies appear garbled and non-cohesive, yielding no clear event or outcome.
Fragmentary patriotic verse echoes the Star Spangled Banner with scattered phrases about dawn light and flag, mentioning liberty and bravery. The garbled text preserves famous lines about the flag, freedom, and perseverance amid war and peace.
The piece argues Virginia and North Carolina joining the Union alters Civil War dynamics. It contends Gulf States lack strength, while Union needs greater resources to counter a larger southern coalition. It notes Virginia’s 200,000 adult white males and North Carolina’s potential 150,000 troops, but cites debt and bond depreciation as barriers to funding a large army.
The article cites monthly and yearly costs for soldiers and officers totaling 45 million dollars, with subsistence alone at 16.5 million and no transportation or munitions included. It asks how long states can sustain such expenditures and urges a lesson to oppose the war and its leaders.
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