This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 8 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1884
Page
2
Detailed guidance on warm moist soils, soil depth, and tillage to maximize beet sugar. Includes effects of rainfall and temperature, deep ploughing, stubble stirring, and autumn loosening to store moisture. Discusses manuring, crop rotation, seed quality, thinning, hoeing, and timing for peak sugar production. Also notes potential byproducts and economic considerations for ten acres.
A farmer writes on potato culture stressing soil and manure, especially coarse horse manure, deep planting, and modest hills for large tubers. He advocates clover for soil fertility, notes its environmental benefit, and urges intensive tillage and proper soil prep. He adds notes on bee keeping profitability and grape growing with detailed pruning and storage guidance.
Professor W A Henry discusses straw and corn stalks management in three Farmers' Review columns. He argues farm profitability rises when every feed component is utilized, recommending selling some oats or bay to buy bran, feeding straw as hay with clover hay, and balancing starches with bran.
The key to success with poultry lies in making fowls comfortable and at home. Provide balanced feeding, clean water, well lit and vented housing, adequate space, privacy, attendants, accessible nests and roosts, and a sand gravel bed. Select good breeds, seek knowledge, and apply principles to avoid disappointment and profit.
The Dorking excels for flesh in young and mature birds while Leghorn yields many eggs. Houdan offers overall satisfaction with good points. Choose disease free birds from pure blood males. Avoid cold wet weather and temperature changes. Clean housing and food prevent vermin and disease with proper husbandry.
A farmer argues against costly phosphate bets and promotes linseed oil meal and buckwheat bran as a better feed investment. Two tons of oilmeal and bran can boost stock growth, improve flesh and milk, reduce disease, and pay for itself, unlike uncertain phosphate applications.
Correspondents report buckwheat improves soil condition and aids oats after cropping, but severely reduces subsequent corn yields. It is a strong feeder that strips the soil of fertility, especially on rich land, with straw often wasted. Practices to improve compost and feeding methods are urged, and cow milking advice warns against disturbing a cow after its first calf to preserve milk quantity and quality.
From the Royal Agricultural Society Journal the note warns mildew as a grave wheat foe. It can slash yields by up to 75 percent with only a quarter saleable. An 1881 Cambridgeshire outbreak ruined crops that should have yielded forty to forty eight bushels per acre, delivering one of the worst harvests.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.