A Farm Guide to Grapes Berries and Tobacco
Rural New Yorker discusses best grape varieties including Miner's Victoria Moore's Early and Duchess, plus notes on Mingy’s grape, Jefferson and Barry. It lists strawberries raspberries currants and transplanting methods, and provides detailed planting, trellising, and tobacco curing guidance with emphasis on proper ventilation, water, and labor considerations.
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New Yorker
Vail Brighton
Worden
Moore
Wilder
Miner
Victoria
Barry
Heaith
Mingy
Concord
Niagara
Jefferson
Ricketts
Duchess
New York
Herbert
Merrimack
Prentiss
Bidwell
Big Bob
Charles Downhig
Warren
Jersey Queen
Primo
Hart
Minnesota
Ames Vick
Sharpless
Cumberland Triumph
Piper's Dling
Manchester
Miner’s Prolific
Mount Vernon
Windsor
Kentucky
Finch’s Prolific
Gregg
Souhegan
Caroline
New Rochelle
Shaffer
Montclair
Superb
Cuthbert
Hansell
Turner
Eee
Snyder
Taylor
Fay
Essentials for a Good Tobacco Crop at the North
An advisory on cultivating high quality tobacco stressing soil selection, early plant raising, and rapid growth. It warns against overproduction of low grades and notes that proper soil, healthy plants, and careful harvesting are essential for profitability, with emphasis on climate, soil types, and weed control.
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Vick’s Magazine
Potato Planting Tips From a Western Farmer
Practical points on planting potatoes urge early, well drained and enriched land. Drill aims for soil warmer than air, proper moisture, and deeper cultivation. Only one or two eyes per piece, with careful cutting to preserve flesh and eyes for strong root growth.
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Galusha
Sturtevant
Arnold
Colorado
North America
Boston
Scientific American
United States
Pennsylvania
J. J. Thomas
Valuable Cranberry Cultivation Guidance for Massachusetts Farms
The article argues cranberry farming can shift from Cape towns to other Massachusetts areas as disease and pests rise with overproduction. It outlines site needs, vine selection, soil prep, planting in May, and water management to maximize yield and control pests, urging careful vine quality and early, dense planting for rapid ground coverage.
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Barnstable County
Cape Towns
Cape
Massachusetts
Bean Culture and Soil Adaptation for Large Yields
The article argues beans require soil adaptation and thorough cultivation to outcompete imports. It cites western New York yields, notes best soils are dry gravelly loam, and details seed rates, spacing, timing, and multiple cultivation steps. It promotes deep plowing, fall manure, and balanced fertility, urging farmers to study agricultural science.
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Germany
France
Italy
New York
Ploughing Rules Guide Fall or Spring Soil Care
A historic farming guide notes no fixed rule for ploughing times or methods. Decisions depend on soil type, climate, and crops, with heavy clay and weeded fields favoring fall ploughing, light sandy soils for spring, and deep or shallow ploughing tailored to soil depth and subsoil. It also warns against exposing subsoil too widely and endorses subsoil ploughing with drainage and manuring for long term gains.
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Tan Phourhior
The Art of Grafting for Home Fruit Trees
An instructional guide on indoor grafting for youth and families, detailing tools, wax preparation, muslin wrapping, and timing. It covers knife edging, wax mixtures of beeswax rosin and tallow, careful heating, muslin strip wrapping, wetting tests, and early season grafting to maximize growth while noting risks of wax warping and the need to untie cherry and plum grafts in June.
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Mare
Celery culture and general farm notes from spring
The article discusses celery cultivation methods with wide spacing and deep mounded beds, storage in trenches, and marsh versus upland sites. It covers crop yields, building methods, and packing for winter, plus experiences with onion and cabbage trials, hay caps, butter ripening, strawberry planting, and various pruning, fertilizing, and pest-control tips for orchard and field crops.
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Peter Henderson
Kalamazoo
Orchard grass seed and pasture improvement guidance
The passage details selecting orchard grass seed from Kentucky, sowing rates of three to four bushels per acre, and sowing with grain. It advises light covering with a brush harrow, sowing after grain harrowed in, and suggests a mixed sowing with oats and barley or spring wheat to reduce shading. It notes seed characteristics and winter protection for crowns.
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Suraine
Timothy
Kentucky
Artemus Ward’s Kangaroo Finds Quiet Cleveland Retirement
The famed moral kangaroo once tied to Artemus Ward’s table leg now rests in a Cleveland barn, cared for by George Hoyt of the Plain Dealer. The creature, aging but gentle, greets visitors and keeps a quiet life away from public sights, with Hoyt vowing to keep it for life despite several offers.
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Cleveland
Artemus Ward
Plain Dealer
Ward
Europe
Artemus
George Hoyt
Daily Plain Dealer
George
Hoyt
Areves
Mr. Hoyt
Barnum
A. Ward
Insect Discovery Ends With Ordinary Cockroach
A Battle Creek savant claimed to find a new insect and sent it to the Agricultural College for review. The college declared it merely a common cockroach. A public notice from the U. E. A. Office in Detroit advertises employment for girls in general house work at Ounce Gall after 10 A.M.
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Detroit Post and Tribune
Battle Creek
Agricultural College
Winter Street
Ounce
Gall
Eeceetaemeeneianattme
New England Medical Institute
Tremont Row
Boston
Mass
To Our Readers Please Mention The Buston Weekly Globe
A reader note urges advertisers to cite that they saw ads in The Buston Weekly Globe when placing notices in the paper. It emphasizes acknowledging the source in promotions and helps track ad circulation.
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Buston Weekly Globe
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