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Newspaper
Springfield Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1877
Page
4
A Rural World column urges farmers to provide shelter for hay, corn, cattle, horses, mules and farm gear before snow and storms. It covers stable design, ventilation, cleanliness, vermin control, feeding, calf care, and wintering stock, plus tips on seed saving, mulching orchards, and butter-making practices.
The article discusses maintaining cream at 00 to 60 degrees during warm weather and 60 to 65 degrees in cold, using water immersion to adjust temperature. It covers churn types that work by concussion, salt usage, packing methods, and disapproval of butter bowls, plus notes on disinfection, packaging, and six hour intervals between workings. It also surveys Jersey cow selection, type variations, udder structure, and milk indicators, emphasizing pedigree and herd quality.
A reflective critique imagining a religion that softens rough edges and steadies daily life. It envisions mindfulness in family duties, kindness to children and servants, steady temper, and a guiding light that bridges life’s rough spots with serene, hopeful tone.
Jersey rents per acre are listed as fifty dollars while a two year old Percheron in Oregon weighs thirteen fifty two pounds. Cols in Columbus Ohio feature Goldsmith Maid and Barns for trots. Georgia fruit yields reach one million five hundred thousand dollars. A cow in Ottumwa Iowa calves three at once. Minnesota reports fourteen inch onions and New Hampshire faces rotten potatoes. A Iowa rail line hosts a ten mile corn field near Burlington and Quincy. Pumpkins decline with western farmers. western sparsity increases westward. Mt Carmel Illinois hosts fifteen sorghum mills. millet molasses rises as staple. Eastern Iowa corn delayed by wet spring, cattle will graze field. Fort Wayne unsettled by hog cholera meat sold as fresh pork. Massachusetts Agricultural College vine crop may yield two tons of grapes unless early frost harms. California reports new pumpkin pest spreading on farms. Winnamac Indiana ships ten thousand bushels of wheat to Philadelphia for Pennsylvania sowing. Richard Kimball of Hopkinton New Hampshire cradles and stores grain at eighty five years old. Prairie schooners remain common toward the Missouri river. Abyssinian ox horns measure four feet long with seven inch base diameter. Abyssinian buffaloes twice the size of our oxen, two can draw as much as four horses.
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