Profitable Strawberries Compared By A Morristown Grower
In a letter to The Weekly Globe Morristown fruit grower Barsenstull argues the Downing strawberry yields more profit per acre than Crescent or Downing and criticizes Crescent for sprawling growth. He estimates 16 000 quarts per acre at eight cents per quart versus 10 000 for Crescent, concluding Downing offers higher returns with lower outlay and notes flower quality and other varieties as better options. He also critiques nurserymen for pricing.
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Weekly
Globe
Morristown
N. J
Downing
Acre
Barsenstull Fruit Grower
E. E. Venasue
P. O. Box
GOME SPRING SUBJECTS AND POTATO NOTES
A detailed discussion on green peas compares Champion of England with Marrowfat and early wrinkled varieties. It covers seed quality, soil preparation, sowing depth, pest issues, and the merits of various pea sorts, plus ploughing guidance and potato planting timing to counter rot and beetles.
Proper soil and vigilance boost tobacco seed beds
The article stresses strong soil, abundant healthy plants, and constant attention from sowing to setting. It outlines seed bed preparation, sun and watering care, weed control, and forced growth methods. It also covers glass frames, early plant production, and fall soil renewal for repeated crops.
Packing Tobacco For Shipment In Pens and Staves
Guidelines for preparing tobacco bundles and cases including drying fat stems by double ranking, using boards to keep ranks straight, and stacking methods. Details on case weights near 400 pounds, case lengths for wrappers and binders, moist weather packing, two workers per pack, and using a lever press or improvised fulcrum to fit cases.
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Cor. Husbandman
Liver rot menace in flocks and preventive measures
The article outlines the global spread of sheep liver rot caused by the liver fluke, its life cycle via freshwater snails, and how grazing on dry high ground and drainage of wet lands can prevent outbreaks. It advises salt and linseed or cotton seed meals as supportive treatments, and urges slaughter of affected animals to curb spread.
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South America
Australia
America
Europe
Great Britain
England
Chard
Wiltshire
Salisbury Plain
Clee
Ludlow
Iver
Gardening and dressmaking tips for beginners and home projects
This column offers gardening guidance for novices buying seeds and arranging seed beds with patient, economical strategies. It also covers home dressmaking advice, detailing steps for remaking dresses, choosing trims, and achieving neat, functional results with available materials.
Drilled culture improves corn yield in field trials
The author favors drill culture over hill planting after twenty years of observation. He reports better bushels per acre with drills, three to three and a half feet row spacing, and three inches between stalks. Two ears per stalk waste foliage. four kernels per hill and limited fertilizer yield best results. Corn in New England rises as a staple but only with modern methods. letting fodder waste in the field is condemned.
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Philadelphia Extra Early
Dan O’ Rourke
Dan
O’ Rourke
Philadelphia
Wonder
Alpha
McLean
Saxton
Supreme
Champion
England
Canada
United States
Europe
Colorado
Paris
Illinois
California
Portsmouth Weekly
New England
Fashionable Bonnet Colors and Simple Summer Styles
A long critique of blended cashmere and sardiniere colorings in dress fabrics and the overuse of color in accessories. It discusses color harmony, trimmed straw and chip bonnets, and recommends soft mixed Persian or India silk trims. It notes poke bonnets’ refinement and the simple seaside style handkerchief bonnet, suited to certain face shapes.
Fancy Afghan Baby Carriage Cover Instructions
A detailed Victorian style guide for crochet afghan work and knitted insertions. It describes alternating blue and white Saxony wool squares using afghan stitch, joining by chain stitches, with center embroidery in blue or gold silk. Includes fringe and narrow edging directions, and a knitted insertion pattern with exact stitch sequences.
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Hans and the fairy kingdom of pork and beans
A folk tale follows Hans Stein who mends a fairy house with care after misplacing tools. A fairy grants him a tiny kingdom for a year and a perilous lesson comes when Discontent tempts Hans with pork and beans. Trouble returns, Hans loses the kingdom, and the fairy vanishes.
The German Rhine Poem of Freeborn Pride
A poetic tribute to the Rhine’s permanence and national spirit. The speaker vows that the river remains free and unyielding as long as mountains stand and steeples gleam, while lovers seek marriage and a solitary fish, hidden beneath its waters, endures.
Prescott and Bunker Hill memorial clash over Prescott statue
A public appeal signed by Samuel A. Drake and others protests the Bunker Hill Monument Association plan to honor Colonel William Prescott with a warlike statue and possibly an inscription claiming him as battle leader. The letter warns this risks misrepresenting history and harms Massachusetts by alienating New Hampshire and Connecticut troops.
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Israel Putnam
William
Leach
Samuel A. Drake
Francis 8
Prescott
Massachusetts
New England
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Bunker Hill
Eating Grass by the Handful in Waltham Man Declared Insane
Lawrence Barrett of Waltham has been adjudged insane by Drs Willis and McCormick and likely to be committed to Danvers asylum after a morning incident at the station house. He had accused his wife of insanity, an investigation cleared her, and he was later found in the Unitarian church yard eating grass by the handful.
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Hans Stein
Karl
Hans
Rhode Island
Trouble
Discontent
Nol
Kans
Lawrence Barrett
Waltham
Willis
McCormick
Danvers Asylum
Moody
Unitarian Church
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Tae Sun
World
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New Yorker
Chicago Ledger
King
Lisbeth
Lispeth
Pandora
Ilana
Norristown Herald
New York
German Rhine
Prescott and Bunker Hill
Alicock
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