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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1880
Page
3
A speaker prays before the shrine with fervent devotion, seeking pity and truth from a stern idol. Dawn reveals a revelation as the idol's gaze exposes the speaker’s vulnerability, and the mantle of longing shifts to reveal hate rather than love.
The Ploughman column argues farm work favors compact heavier horses over light roadsters, promotes Vermont Morgans for durability, and urges Percherons from Normandy stock as a practical upgrade. It notes Hampton Virginia trials show improved local horses and warns against western long-limbed stock.
The article explains a spring halts habit in horses a jerking of the hind limb during turning and movement noting its reflex nature and uncertain causes with limited effective treatment. It covers wound care for veins detailing pinning and tying techniques and cautions about arterial tying dropsy risks. It also notes sweeny wasting of shoulder muscles from unsteady pulling and recommends turpentine cantharides oil mix cupping avoidance and daily outdoor liberty when possible.
The article explains how eggs should be stored upright to preserve freshness and potential viability. It notes differences in keeping quality based on the hen’s health, with overfat hens producing less perfect eggs, and mentions the decline in condition with age.
The article explains pruning fruit trees by species to balance growth and fruiting. It covers apple, pear, cherry, peach, and nectarines, noting timing, sun exposure, and techniques to encourage fruit spurs and larger fruit while reducing wind damage. It warns against excessive sap bleeding and outlines summer pruning to shift sap into lateral growth.
The article surveys spring manure practices citing Henry Stewart on weather exposure and gas emissions, tests with litmus for ammonia, and notes on compost water absorption. It also discusses coal ashes to curb gooseberry mildew, lime's effect on manure efficiency, and an Indiana farmer’s successful melon crop using bone dust with farmyard manure and ashes.
Advance guide on hop cultivation emphasizes weed control and soil care, noting that heavy growth chokes hops. Buckwheat as a rice preventive ruined a yard, while thorough cultivation with potatoes aids health. Deep drainage and soil richness affect yield. drought needs surface stirring for moisture, with Starkville pioneer Alexander Hall's 22-year yard success marred by buckwheat trial.
Farmers with home gardens should balance veg crops with kitchen produce. Use horse power in small plots, lay out beds for crops and space for work, and allow for occasional fruit rows. Provide sunny spots, use scraps and ashes as soil amendments, and consider growing early crops in window boxes. A German moss ball method for cucumbers and beans is described as a fast early crop technique.
A collage of farm notes and home crafts outlining oats sowing methods, drilling versus broadcasting, seed quality, and yields. It blends springtime verse with practical guidance on grafting evergreens, selecting stocks, and evergreen care, plus ladies department sewing and upholstery tips.
A collection of kitchen guidance and recipes covering storage tips for yeast lard preserves and jellies, meat tenderizing methods, cloth making from white fly screen, lace care with alcohol and indigo, and several baked goods including white cake, carrot colored butter, Boston cream cakes, fig cake French cake and butter sponge cake with precise ingredient lists and preparation steps.
The article discusses stock and scion compatibility in plants, noting exceptions like Japanese Retinosporas grafting on Arbor-vites. It then shifts to sheep wool ingestion, describing wool balls forming in the digestive tract and proposing a bitter remedy of aloe solution to deter the habit, with caution on application frequency.
The passage, in lyrical form, muses on time passing between new years and old, noting growth and decay. It images ripening harvests, acorns growing into trees, coral cities, and gradual human efforts. Repeated lines emphasize patient progress and the inevitability of change over long spans.
A discussion on interior styling suggests velvet accents, blue shelves, and ebonized wood friezes to enhance rooms. Over-door art should be still lifes rather than small sketches, and tea cloths feature embroidered borders with cornflowers and wheat or Virginia creeper motifs for a refined serving tray cover.
A reflective verse on restless child hands and feet and the loving remedy of patient guidance. It contrasts mischief with affection, praising babies as the joy of life and the household’s bright center. The speaker laments lonely earth without children and cherishes their impact on family.
Professor LeConte argues waste tissue travels via blood to the liver where it becomes sugar and urea, later expelled. Schiff’s experiments show venous blood kills when the liver is tied but not when free, implicating tissue decay in blood. Ernest Hart calls for banning tea at breakfast, praising porridge bread butter cocoa for workers as a safer, nerve friendly start.
The piece contrasts nature sounds with General Logan's bray and rural hymns, noting the bray as sweeter than other farm sounds. It then shifts to a Washington Post excerpt on sugar from Indian corn, describing glucose production and a boom in corn syrup plants across Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa, with Cyrus McCormick investing in Chicago.
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