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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1880
Page
3
The article explains economical cow keeping on small plots, detailing winter and summer feed costs, pasture options, and the minimal investment for a cow. It provides price ranges for cows, calves, and heifers, and emphasizes liberal feeding for profit. It also outlines selecting dairy cows by udder quality, digestion, and constitution, plus a note on milk fever and basic treatment.
The article describes the gapes worm as a red wirelike parasite causing coughing in chicks, its progression, and the dangers of weakened birds. It urges preventive care through strong nutrition, cleanliness, and quiet early life, plus summer management for healthy, productive flocks and proper duckling care. It also notes worm casts improve soil, aeration, and potential loam formation, urging observation and exploration of earthworms as a soil and agricultural aid.
An extensive excerpt recalls A B Potter’s essay on ensilage using airtight bricks and deep pits to preserve green fodder for cattle. It details pit construction, sealing, and daily feeding cycles, emphasizing clover and grasses, benefits for milch cows, and regional adoption in New England and southern areas.
Practical farm advice details a multi year method to destroy witch grass by burying deep, then repeatedly harrowing and hoeing tops. It recounts a July to spring cycle on one field, noting the stubborn roots and eventual kill.
A pig uproots a buried German cent found by Ben Whittlesey. The coin leads to a series of luck and trades: a five dollar bill, a horse, and finally a town lot deed swapped for the pig. Ben learns that the pig’s actions shaped his family’s fortunes and a unique set of bargains.
Henry I Bowditch M D argues that excessive intellectual strain in New England schools harms body and morals. He cites exhausted students, poor nutrition, long commutes, and late nights at dances as fuels for consumption. Parents should curb overexcitation, ensure proper meals and outdoor activity, and seek healthy, well ventilated schooling to prevent fatal outcomes.
The author argues earthworms origin of loam and describes experiments from 1877 placing worms in sand loam and yellow loam. Pots on a library table from October 28 showed conversion to sandy loam and black loam as worm activity altered texture and consistency.
A newly noted horse disease causing throat paralysis, leading to inability to swallow and eventual death, is linked to rainy, inconsistent weather and has no known cure. The piece also discusses Oakes Ames, alleging corruption of Congress members. Luke Poland and George W. McCrary reportedly validated Ames' Garfield case testimony against perjury charges.
A page excerpt from Harper's Young People featuring puzzles like Charades and Square Words, mixed with a short narrative about Ben, a pig, and a tavern buyer. The text includes rhymes, word games, and a dialogue about how to handle a pig in a garden, framed in a historical juvenile magazine tone.
A fragmentary page presents numerical and word puzzles including a platinum cross puzzle with names such as Charles and Clare. It references schemes like “Square Words” and “Mega Molars” and mentions intoning cadet, plus a few curious snippets such as Is ah ne Taa and Broughe Clare.
Advertisement seeks summer boarders in a New England town. Respond by mail to THE Boston Record and Gros in Boston. Include stamped return address.
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