The Demand for American Horses in Foreign Trade
Correspondence urges farmers to diversify stock toward strong road and draught horses to meet growing overseas demand. Notes buyers prefer 1150 to 1300 pound horses, stresses careful testing of soundness and temper, and highlights benefits of Percheron Norman types for farm and city work. Includes expert opinions on horse grading and breeding advantages.
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England
East
Buschman
St. Louis
London
Mexico
Cuba
Western Farm Journal
Europe
France
Perche
Normandy
Percheron Norman Are Bred In the Peachboring
Charles Martel
Poictiers
Pyrenees
Spain
Seasonable Hints for Apiary and Garden Work
Do not rush bees from winter quarters on first mild spring day. Keep them cool if healthy, feed if needed, and begin breeding once they fly. Move to movable frame hives, ensure uniform sizes, and use simple, cheap constructions. Detailed method for transferring bees and wax fabrication follows, along with varied vegetable and flower garden guidance for early planting, hot beds, and cuttings.
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New Yorker
Laxton
McLean
England
Boston
The Stable Lot and its Trusty Groom’s Care
A narrator recalls a stable where horses lie resting day and night, confident in their groom. The scene highlights the bond of trust between animals and caretaker, suggesting quiet authority and steady routine within the stable life.
Select List of Vegetables for Gardeners
The Garden reviews top vegetable varieties from seedsmen, warning that many new or highly advertised types prove disappointing. It favors proven first rate choices and discusses asparagus, beans, beets, and cabbage with emphasis on soil, cultivation, and reliable cultivars like Giant asparagus, white wax beans, Dreer's Lima, red Egyptian beets, and Jersey Wakefield cabbage.
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Dreer
Jersey Wakefield
Early York
Kansas
Connecticut
Wisconsin
Virginia
North Carolina
Barley and Onions: Soil, Seed, and Harvest Notes
Farmers eye higher barley sowings as prices rise, with emphasis on rich uniform soil to ensure malt quality. The Onion section details ideal deep mellow loam, drainage, fall manuring, spring fertilization, shallow ploughing, precise seeding rates, weed control, and curing for storage, plus popular field onion varieties and seasonal supply.
Corn Cultivation and Seed Saving for Better Yields
The article argues that corn, like other cereals, can greatly improve with careful seed selection and culture. It details selecting early ripening stalks with multiple ears, saving top ears for seed, and avoiding overgrown stalks. It warns against fodder-pulling and outlines cultivation practices, composting, spacing, air access, and row methods to maximize yield and seed quality.
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Advan
Prickly Comfrey Growth as New Fodder Hope
A reader recounts tried and failed hopes for prickly comfrey as a fodder crop. Although cows resisted eating it at first, calves and cows later fed on the green leaves through the season, prompting confidence in comfrey as a valuable perennial forage with easy propagation and multiple harvests.
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Europe
Barley Cultivation and Onion Set Practices in 19th Century Farming
Agricultural column discusses barley as a crop, fertilizer use drilled with seed for strong root contact, and the advantage of barley over other grains in certain soils. It covers soil preparation, harvest timing, and the Hessian fly, plus salt top-dressing. It also explains onion sets, top onions, and potato onions, with planting, harvesting, weed control, and intercropping with celery and spinach.
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Country Geneman
Corn Cultivation Techniques From Rural New Yorker Editorial
The author argues against tall lanky corn and explains successful planting. He describes drilling two rows per drill with nine inches between plants and three feet nine inches between drill centres. He recalls a failed 100 bushel trial due to excessive height and lack of air, urging root management and early, rapid ploughing to stunt stalk growth.
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Camargo
Indiana Farmer
Buel
Ohio
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Wethersfield
Minnesota
Moore
Concord
Stowell
Earl
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Bermuda
Sean
Philadelphia
W. D. Philbrick
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