Potatoes and stock care guidance in farm notes
A historical farming column discusses potato growth, root feeding, and soil management for yields. It weighs proper manure placement around trees, the need for dry resting ground, and how soil and season affect cultivation. It also covers livestock pricing, breeding stock value, and market risk for inferior stock versus top-quality horses and cattle. The piece notes demand from Europe for cavalry horses and urban needs for draft animals, stressing that care and quality influence sale prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gite
Greece
K ‘Og
Quince Grower Fights Borers With Carbolic Acid Mix
A Duchess County fruit grower devised a preventive treatment for borers in a 24 tree quince orchard. In 1882 he applied a soap water carbolic acid mixture to the bark, which kept pests at bay with one application during dry weather. A later trial amid rains required multiple applications. The farmer credits carbolic acid as the active agent, noting success in 1882 and cautioning that proper timing and repeated applications could greatly reduce infestations in orchards and gardens.
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Duchess County
New York
New milk treatment method gains attention at Vermont dairies
A novel process heats milk to 140 degrees with steam in iron cylinders then cools to 40 degrees over about an hour. Vacuum cooling follows for 24 hours, claimed to remove odors and germs and aid cream separation. Afterward milk becomes cheese milk, cream churned at 58 degrees, butter colored by darkness, yielding 4.5 pounds butter and 1.5 pounds cheese per 100 pounds of milk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sabin
University of Vermont and Agricultural College
Fast Ocean Mails and the Change in Conveyance
Postmaster-General Fawcett states after August 1854 Britain will not renew contracts for transatlantic mails. Mails will be sent thrice weekly from Queenstown with month by month vessel selection for fastest delivery. Postmaster Pearson of New York calls the plan highly beneficial to merchants, ending delays in invoicing. The American system prioritizes speed over fixed schedules, selecting ships likely to arrive first. Also mentions a wartime anecdote of Stonewall Jackson and Mahone. Also reports discovery of a 500 year old church ruin near Klovko, Russia with brick walls and porcelain-like mortar, risking further damage from curious excavations.
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Fawcett
Great Britain
United States
Queenstown
Pearson
New York
Postoffice Department
Smolensk
Klovko
Russia
Mysterious Seymour murder cleared by testimony
The long unsolved Moore Woodmansel murder at Seymour Indiana is reportedly solved. Mrs Eliza Kemp testified from an adjoining room as the killer’s circle narrows to the surviving suspect who fled years ago.
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Moore Woodmansel
Seymour
Ind
Eliza Kemp
Get the Best The Presidential Year Tribune Ad
A dense promotional block for The New York Tribune touts its Republican alignment and authority on politics business and world news. It details subscription offers, premiums, and atlas, dictionaries, and medical volumes as promotions. It emphasizes the Tribune as leading, reliable, and cost effective with various daily weekly and semi weekly formats.
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Tarmenkix
New York
Tuk Trhmene
Ldenederatic Party
Tribune
the Tribune
Weeks Tribune
United States
Great Discovery and Chinese Labor at San Francisco
It advises using Dr Quinns Great Discovery for coughs colds and consumption noting it has no opium or morphia and claims immediate cure. Also mentions Dr Quinns Irish Liniment and advertises E R Lash drug store Athens C. The City of Peking steamer arrives in San Francisco with 176 Chinese laborers holding traders certificates allowing land reception by the Chinese Government.
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E. R. Lash
Athens
Peking
San Francisco
Illustrated Hopes Magazine opens Skylab volume in December Namier
Harper's Magazine begins its Skylab Volume with the December Namier issue. It is described as the most popular illustrated periodical in America and England, covering current social and industrial topics with literary, artistic features. New serials and illustrated works appear by William Kinek, BE Roe, Abbey, Gib son, Metman, and others. includes biographical papers and short stories by Howells and Rene.
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Hopes Magasine
America
England
William Kinek
Abbey
BE. P. Roe
Gibson
Metman
Greorge HM. Boughton
Frank I. Miller
Farnham
WD. Howells
Charles Rene
Harper's Weekly Illustrates American Life and Art
Harper's Weekly presents illustrated depictions of American life with serials stories poems and engravings by leading artists and writers. It aims to entertain instruct and attract a wide family readership with ongoing improvements and support from its readers.
Harper's Periodicals and Subscriptions Offer
Harper Brothers advertises yearly subscriptions to Harper's Magazine Harper's Weekly Harper's Bazar and Harper's Young People with free postage to US and Canada. It notes volumes begin June and December, current numbers if no time specified, and offers cloth binding cases and an index for volumes 1 through 60. Remittances by postoffice order or draft. Address in New York.
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Beethoven
Weekly Tribune
Webster’s
Worcester
Harper's Magazine
Harper & Brothers
New York
Harper's Bazar 1884 Fashion and Arts Preview
Harper's Bazar proclaims itself the leading household journal with the finest fashion panes pattern sheets and economic tips. It promises new novelties for 1884 and features premier American and European writings art needlework illustrations and humorous cuts for readers.
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Harper's Bazar
America
Harper's Weekley and Young People Library Offer
Advertisement offers Harper's Weekly and Harper's Young People library volumes. Subscriptions start with January issue. last four annual volumes of Harper's Bearer available in cloth binding for 7.00 each, with mailing or express options and 1.00 cloth cases. Remit by money order or draft. newspapers must obtain express permission.
Advertisement on Volumes of the Worlcity offer
The notice states that volumes of The Worlcity begin with no time mentioned and Harper's Weekly volumes in neat cloth binding can be sent prepaid or by express for 87.00 per volume. Freight is limited to one dollar per volume. cloth cases for newspapers are not to be copied.
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Harver & Brothers
Harper & Brothers
New York
Harper's Weekly
Freigh
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Newton
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Hook
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William
Universal Luther Foundation
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Asbury University
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Harper’s Young People
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