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Newspaper
Sparta Eagle
Location
Sparta, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1867
Page
4
The text describes a hedgerie barberry hedge, its growth, care, and planting details. It mentions spacing two feet apart and planting at forty five degrees, with cover about one inch to eight inches of ground. It references Wallingford and old gardening notes.
The article discusses strawberry root growth and the vitality of next year’s crop, detailing tree care, pest control, and pruning. It notes blight in orchards and recommends cutting and burning blighted limbs, weekly removal of affected branches, and vigilance to prevent spread. It also mentions using geranium leaves as a wound dressing and provides Treasury coin figures for context.
The readable fragments mix farming guidance with political chatter and wartime allusions. Details reference sowing potatoes, gear maintenance, horse and colt feeding, and a stray political remark about a president, all tangled with garbled names and stray numbers from a bygone issue.
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