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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1895
Page
6
Poem recalls childhood in a valley with vivid imagery of red wines, lilies, and purple heights. The speaker mourns lost days and memory’s glow, noting the valley’s scenes linger despite years. From Ladies' Home Journal, Henry C Wood.
A veteran and a colonel clash over a grandson of a hero, revealing motives behind alibis and drink. The narrator recalls Kingsley, Dora, and a shell-wound arm while exploring honor, debt, and the cost of loyalty in a soldiers home.
A patchwork of homey culinary tips and methods from Farm and Home and other sources. Includes almond and rose flavoring, poached eggs on toast, baked egg dishes, date and almond sweets, corn bread, lemon pudding with frosting, cheap Swiss roll, and related instructions with era-specific language and measurements.
An Armour pupil explains a quick improvised ice cream method for hot days. Use a small tin cup with a makeshift lid, pack in a salt ice bath, and churn the mixture of cream sugar and flavoring until nearly frozen. Watch for salt contamination and keep the lid tight as you freeze.
The Norman or Normin cattle, one of the oldest imports, are praised for milk yield and dairy use with cows giving 25 to 30 quarts daily and yearly milk around 6,600 pounds. They provide Camembert and Brie cheeses, butter commands high prices, and steers mature early with heavy weights. They are valued as a general purpose breed by French small farmers for dairy and beef, noted for hardiness and low tuberculous taint.
The article discusses how faster sheep maturation lowers daily feed use and costs, noting low wool prices may boost profits while mutton becomes the main standby. It advises adapting to changed conditions, favoring beefier meat and efficient feeding with clover, grass, or corn. It laments fat meat’s declining popularity as people seek flesh over fat and urges smarter management for long-term fertility and prosperity.
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