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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1884
Page
6
Fragmentary OCR text mentions dates and figures but lacks clear context or identifiable entities making a precise summary impossible. The readable bits—names, dates, and routines—do not form a complete event or subject for a proper card.
A fragmented verse tale recounts a youth Lam bestowing a rose from paradise to a maiden, awakening lifelong longing. The narrator reflects on destiny, memory, and the rose’s symbol as perfume of love that lingers beyond years. Florence Tryris in Marper's Magazine.
A London solicitor Marmaduke H Jones becomes the talk of town after a magazine reports he landed a huge pike at Tenbury. Falsely credited, he endures social derision, confounds friends, and finally learns the tale was a hoax with Culpepper and Mrs Jones driving the farcical revelation.
Henry Stewart explains pruning as a lifelong orchard art to balance sap flow, strengthen stems, and spur fruit buds. He describes cutting back to strong outside buds, directing growth to reinforce the trunk and branches, and using pinching to steer form.
A Western State senator paces the chamber with hands clasped, head bowed, eyes far away as another Western State senator lounges on a sofa. A cadet nearby remarks the pacing man is thought to be Seis and seems visibly absorbed in his own thoughts.
The essay argues hedges have fallen from favor in Britain due to wasted land and labor, noting improved land use after hedge reduction. It contrasts British hedge decline with Western U.S. hedge planting, discusses costs, root problems, and soil impact, and promotes barbed wire fences and homegrown timber posts as practical alternatives for fencing.
The article discusses corn pests including crows and smut, and outlines prevention methods. It explains using a tar film to deter crows and a corrosive solution to disinfect seeds against smut, suggesting tar coating after sulfuric steps for dual protection. It warns of cattle risks from smut contaminated fodder and cites broader livestock impacts.
A collection of household tips and farming snippets. Included are onion and potato mash guidance, floor matting tips, a horses' evening romp value, a method using 200 sheep to control Canadian thistles with salt at root, bread and butter pudding directions, a fried chicken skin test, a baked pork crust dish, and a Rural New Yorker note praising early corn planting to gain heat and sunlight, accelerating blossom and maturity.
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