Horses and Their Feet Should Not Be Shod
A Victorian essay extols barefoot horses, arguing shod hooves cause harm. It cites Fraser's Magazine, Xenophon, and Charlier, praising unshod traction, firm stable floors, and the dangers of metal. Examples include Massachusetts evidence and international practice, urging minimal hoof interference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Cox
Fraser's Magazine
United Kingdom
Xenophon
Avinal
Lord Pembroke
Vegetius
Fraser
M. Charlier
Metlon
Seley’s
North Metropolitan Tramways Company
Messrs
Smither & Son
Upper East Smithfield
London
Massachusetts Board of Agriculture
Gowditch
Massachusetts
Onions and Crops Across Soils and Methods
A comprehensive farmer guide covers soil choice and manuring for onions, seed sowing rates, weed control, and harvesting. plus notes on peas, grape grafting, breed terms, California wine crops, winter wheat conditioning with rollers, salicylic acid for cattle, and rice culture expansion in the Southwest. It emphasizes soil richness, drainage, and timely cultivation for best yields.
WHAT FARMERS SHOULD KNOW
This miscellany offers practical farming pointers from livestock to crops and processing. It notes large apple imports into England, extensive land reclamation in Louisiana, rising pine and turpentine output in Georgia, and cautions on sausage quality from frozen hogs. It covers butter making, lucerne as forage, white grub control, peach tree nursery losses, paper barrel pulp, milking routines, castor bean culture, potato drought resilience, soil amendments, and salt as fertilizer. It closes with an ad for Cooks and girls for general house work at the U.S. Army office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paius
England
Virginia
Killibrew
Tennessee
Hea
Timothy
Howard
Messrs
Lauson
Louisiana Land Reclamation Company
Brunswick & Albany
Georgia
California
Europe
Middle States
Pennsylvania
Wilk
St. Louis
Indiana
Warrick County
North Carolina
Pasquotauk
Meehan
Chambers County
Ala
Georgia Line
Weather and wheat yields rise with open, well distributed work
From The Country Gentleman the note says summer wheat grows under heat and crowds, and that when fields are opened and work is well distributed, the tasks are completed more efficiently. The fragment emphasizes practical farming tempo amid hot conditions.
Rice Milling and Polishing Process in New Orleans Wulls
Describesrice production steps from cutting and stacking to threshing, winnowing, and polishing. Details hulled grain, hoards of workers, and machinery including hoodlum and stones, with bran waste around eight barrels per hundred and hullers paid between half to three quarters of a cent per pound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
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Mavhhew
Nature
Miles
Mayhew
la Foss
Chartier
Douglass
Log Cally
Syeem
Mexico
Peru
Brazil
Ireland
Exmoor
Dartmoor
Orkneys
Welsh Hills
Moscow
Vistula
France
Flint
Missouri
Berkshire
Suffolk
Jersey
San Francisco
Alta
Los Angeles
Supoma
Sierra Nevada
Duke of Brunswick
Stampen
Qels
Prussian Silesia
Southwest
Carolinas
Louisiana
Long Island
U.S. A
Wesc Strel“T
A. D. Bullock
Providence
J. I
Nepereticum
Bright
Nullock
Robertson
GEO. C, Goodwin &Co
Hanover St
Boston
Jstett
Hop
Hop Ritters
Rochester
Toronto
Ont
D. R. V.G. Mfg. Co., Prop’s
Syracuse, N. Y
New York Depot
N. Celitenton
Fulton Street
Mount Mansfield Hotel
Stowe, Vermont
New England
Stowe
Vermont
Mount Mansfield
Summit House
Satrae Hotel Company
Lowell
Concord
Northern
Vermont Central
Waterbury
Whitney
Whitney Chemical CO
Washington St
U.S.A
Commoney
Trea
Herald
Harper's Weedy
Lum Smiph
Sausem Et
Phila
Wytf
Londre
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