Clover the key to richer ground and bigger corn yields
The author urges Western farmers to sow more clover to prevent soil loss and enrich fields. He notes that Eastern states use plaster, lime, and other amendments, but clover alone can restore fertility, fit into crop rotation, and provide hay. February or March sowing yields strong two year sods for corn and wheat. Ohio is praised as ideal for clover.
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Supreme Court
How Farmers and Woodwork Tips Appear in Old Notes
The text offers advice on renewing dull black walnut frames with stiff brushing and boiled linseed oil. It also urges farmers to cultivate major and minor crops to cover costs, lest profits from main crops be wiped out. A reader asks how to break an ox. the editor suggests odd methods including a tail chain and a pile driver, or starting a country newspaper for subscriptions.
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Athens Township
Athens
E. R. Lash
Perkins
Jacobate
Tips for Safe Omnium Gatherum Pickle Jars
Readers with a vegetable garden can prepare a late season omnium gatherum pickle jar. Fill a jar with small tomatoes, corn, cauliflower, radish pods, onions, strawberry tomatoes, nasturtiums and small cucumbers. Pour off vinegar when full, season with pepper, corn, peppers, cloves, allspice, salt, and ginger, add turmeric or mustard seed to color, boil ten to fifteen minutes, then turn the pickles.
Soap Making Plan Warns of Maggoty Grease
A Cincinnati Gazette reader advises a fall soap plan using a kettle of lye with bacon rinds and similar scraps. He claims summer grease stored for soap can become maggoty and promises a good batch by fall, joking that a rat falling in will still become soap.
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Cincinnati Gazette
Sliced Tomato Pickies Recipe Instructions
This recipe outlines making a pickled tomato relish by scalding one gallon of tomatoes with salt, adding pepper, mace, cloves, mustard, cinnamon, mustard seed, celery seed, green pepper, onions, horseradish, sugar, and vinegar in alternating layers.
Pie Crust Health Tip From The Ancient Bakery
A fragmented note discusses making a healthy pie crust with thin sweet crease flour and a pinch of salt. It advises against kneading thin dough and suggests a quick oven bake. Mentions a questionable quantity method and a stir of salt at the center.
Pie Dough and a Spontaneous Combustion Anecdote
A recipe for three or four pies uses flour lard and buttermilk with quick baking. A Merced California tale recounts a discharged worker who drank gin and perished in a road fire, with a mistaken spontaneous combustion theory.
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Dickens
Merced
Cal
Old man Beckwith's pistol feats light up Rocketts field
An elderly Penninsula resident named Beckwith toured Richmond and stunned about a dozen locals with a seven shot flint lock display. Tests included shooting a potato from his son's hand at fifty yards and hitting a copper cent and a paper target at sixty yards. The farmer-like marksman, about fifty, claimed his son Bob can shoot as well as he can.
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Peninsula
Rocketts
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