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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1888
Page
2
The article explains a farm method to make superphosphate by pulping bones with wood ashes or soda ash and lime, packing in a barrel with layers of bone and ash, soaking with boiling water, and letting the mixture ferment to produce alkaline phosphates. The process aims to save bones and avoid handling sulfuric acid.
Practical instructions on safe transplanting timing and methods for various plants. Warns against moving tender crops before warm weather, emphasizes hardening off, using proper tools, and protecting roots. Also covers lambing care for ewes and general farm management practices.
Guidance on scheduling ewe mating to lamb from early to mid April with gestation around 152 days. Watch ewes closely during labor with signs of nearing birth, and ensure assistance if needed to reduce risks and support lamb viability.
An 60 acre New York style farm plan outlines a five field rotation to profit from potatoes corn oats clover and pasture. It details stock numbers hay crops and dairy outputs including 16 cows 5 sows and 75 pigs with annual sales estimates and notes market options and risks.
Colonel Curtis describes how a Jersey herd produced over one and a half pounds of butter daily using a balanced ration and pasture most of the time. He details feeding during different seasons, water access, and the use of cotton seed or linseed meal, advocating ample, steady nutrition and gentle management to avoid dry cows.
Stephen Powers outlines ideal per acre mixes for meadow and pasture on varying soils. He lauds blue grass and June grass for lamb winter feed while warning against overreliance on light uplands and urging reseeding with thorough sowing methods. He notes seed ratios, soil suitability, and pasture management to improve sod, with fall depasturing and careful irrigation of new stands.
A practical farmer details spring work for corn, preferring spring greensward breaking, shallow harrowing, manure spreading, and double harrow passes. He outlines marking 3 by 3 foot plots, five kernels per hill dropped by hand, then covered, with one man and two boys.
A farmer describes meticulous corn and fodder practices to survive drought and wind. He details hoeing, staking, shocking, manure spreading, and leached ash applications, plus rye rotation, cow fodder routines, and winter manure management aimed at low-cost milk production and high forage value.
The author argues cholera in poultry stems from improper rearing and feeding rather than contagion. He prescribes prevention by shelling feed recycling, confinement to break setting, and selective breeding to produce strong, attentive mothers from Leghorn crosses. He notes French market practices and reports on egg, chick, and coop management.
Professor T F Hunt of Illinois College Farms reports on pork production from various feeds. He finds skimmilk expensive unless a waste product, cornmeal and shelled corn have differing efficiencies, oats and ground feeds vary in pork yield, and Indian corn proves most economical in winter regions.
Rothamsted investigations conclude soil with prior manure can yield 44 successive wheat crops averaging 14 bushels per acre. Organic nitrogen and mineral nutrients drive wheat growth, with nitrification and nitrate loss tied to wet seasons, implying drier years favor larger yields. Over 45 years soil fertility in organic nitrogen and potash has declined, as analyses show reductions in nutrient stocks.
The article recounts thirty five years of onion farming experience detailing soil, drainage, and irrigation needs. rotation, fertilization, and tools. seed rates and treatments. harvest timing. drying and storage choices. and notes occasional yields losses from pests or neglect. It emphasizes adaptability to market demands and the grower’s role as observer and planner.
The report details mixing slag with cotton seed meal and mixing acid phosphate, applying seven pounds per row to various cotton varieties, with yields ranging from 4% to 11% depending on variety and treatment. It also notes equal performance of slag and phosphate on corn and peas, and gives guidance on propagating common shrubs by soft wood cuttings.
The article discusses pig care highlighting constipation causes from overstimulating food and remedies such as opium salts calomel and linseed tea with warm water injections. It also advises post recovery feeding and farm hygiene. It covers fruit tree planting. unpacking grafts. trench planting and rooting care. and timing grafting before warm weather or sap flow to prevent damage.
Janet Belton and Guy Martin joke about Aunt Hannah Bemis’s romance while a professor Keith who plays a banjo becomes a looming suitor. Aunt Hannah fears scandal, but a serenade leads to a comic unraveling when the organ grinder is drenched and Keith’s banjo is found under lilacs.
Janet comforts her relative amid a tale of lost love and mistaken feelings about Professor Keith who left town the same day. Achilles Newman marries Arabel Sophia Smith and receives a wreath from bachelor friends but initial initials puzzle him. A fragment from Life hints at a playful scene over a piece of taffy.
Notice explains that no publication will be sent for less than one year and that orders require a yearly subscription to THE WEEKLY GLOBE. It states limits on magazine deliveries per address, beginning issue specification, and that specimen copies of other publications will not be provided. Address details for THE WEEKLY GLOBE are noted.
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