Hackney Horse Matchless of Londesboro Shines in Show
The hackney boom rises as Matchless of Londesboro, bred in America and shown in New York, exemplifies the breed with high arching neck, long body, and exceptional action. Crosses with thoroughbreds and trotting mares yield popular carriage teams and strong prepotency in progeny.
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Londesboro
New York
America
W. Seward Webb
Matchless
Lord Loudon
Virginia
Heaves in a Mare Warns Against Overfeeding and Dust
A Rural New Yorker excerpt notes a mare with severe heaves showing labored breathing and flank jerks after heavy feeding. Advice centers on strict diet limits, dust-free chop rations, feeding at night, limited water, and avoiding long work after meals. Remedial treatments offer little relief. focus on maintaining quality forage and controlled grain. Arsenic is sometimes prescribed, with Fowler's solution mentioned for weeks. The piece also claims mules are the best breed to raise in the southwestern states.
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Kans
L. H
New Yorker
Fattening Cows for Beef and Feed Experiments
Article discusses economical cow fattening on farms using pumpkins with grain such as gluten meal oats and barley. Notes Jersey cows make good beef, some cows should be culled rather than fattened, and shares an example of a Jersey Ayrshire cross producing fine beef. Also reports on twig paste for cattle from Hoards Dairyman and field notes from New York horse shows and horse breeding trends.
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Jersey
Ayrshire
St. Albans
Messenger
Hoard’s Dairyman
Jarcow
Convenient Stair Cover For Moving Heavy Packages
A 19th century note describes a simple wooden door mounted to cover stairs for hauling barrels and goods between levels. It highlights easy use when needed and quick storage against a cellar wall. The report shifts to poultry: Peter Collier’s bulletin shows eight pullets without a male cost and yield comparisons, later noting feather eating linked to unvaried feed and idleness, with no need for a male rooster in laying hen operations.
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Peter Collier
New York Experiment Station
Repairing Machinery Bolts In Agricultural Gear
Instructional note on removing stubborn nuts and bolts in farm equipment. Recommends hammer jar, penetrating oil, heat and cool method, or cutting the nut off with a cold chisel and sledge if needed. Emphasizes mechanical patience to free rusted fasteners.
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Ohio
Fixing and Reworking Bolts and Nuts in Tools
Practical guidance on repairing bolts by splitting and wedging ends, fabricating new heads, and threading a bolt. Includes methods for heating, splitting, driving wedges, welding, and reshaping nuts. Also notes Ohio Farmer and winter gardening with glass-roofed houses, and advances in greenhouse production and fungi varieties for edible mushrooms.
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Ohio Station
Bulletin
How to Avoid a Cold The Eerie Treatment Recpon Physician
A historic guide advises cooling and exposure to prevent colds. It emphasizes skin health, gradual air baths, and rubbing after baths. It suggests open windows, drafts, and hardy mucous membranes, warning that drafts can be danger ous even with small openings and linking cold to meals.
How to Test Mushrooms and Do Many Little Things
A dated guide presents mushroom testing tips for edibles and hazards. It also offers a series of household tasks such as drying rooms before fires, cleaning chairs and wallpaper, whitening willow furniture with sulfur, and preserving hunting whalebones. The tone mirrors early home manuals with practical cautions and steps.
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Uze
Early season radishes and poultry notes from Meehans Monthly
The piece advises radish culture with glass frames to speed growth, notes rich soil yields tender roots, and mentions crossbred fowls, horse feed studies, corn ear yield, hop vine kerosene emulsion tests, and turkey farming guidance. It cites Meehan’s Monthly and Pennsylvan ia Maryland and Oregon sources for varied agricultural tips.
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Meehan
Cooking and Plant Care Tips from an Old Manual
The article presents two chicken singeing methods using an alcohol lamp or newspaper flame near a stove. It also describes a plant parasite remedy by mixing sulphurated potash with soft soap and diluting with water for spraying.
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Cadet
Cleveland Bay
Yorkshire
New York City
Lawrence Kip
Mona
My May
Rusty Bolte
Department of Agriculture
Williamson's Block
Ers Bixbey’s
Joseph Burns
Keystone
Joln O'Brien
Attorney AT Law
Williamson Block
Eve Dauner
K. Rinenart
P. Warm
Mark Hale
Markley
Metarien
Real
P. Pill
Wilson & Tod
Sluetor
ISD Abernetinon
A. B. Martin
Ilaww
Hale al Whens
H. Cook
Thomas Sturgis
Denrisr Bluffton
Sareen Airan Bridge
Hoom 1
Coe Block
Arnold’ S
Utah Station
Sanborn
Pennsylvania
F. L. Washburn
Oregon
Munn & CO
Broadway
George Stinson &Co
Portland
Maine
Attorneys AT Law
Torepo
St. Louis, Mo
Toledo
Enion RS
Gre
Bluffton
C. c. Il Tolle
Inkins
Ft. W
G&l L.R. R
A. W
A.M
Magid
Ft. Wayne & Coguerville
aNp
New Castle
Rushville
United States
Canada
P.M
Ry. M
Connertvile
Cincinnati
Civcinnati
Connersville
Ft. Wayne
Cincinna
Bushville
Louisville
L. C. Waring. Agt
Ft. W.C. & L. Railroad
Parker. Co
F. Daly
Gen
Indianapolis
Ind
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