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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1882
Page
2
The article stresses individualized feeding for cattle horses and hogs, noting stomach differences and the dangers of overfeeding. It argues cows benefit from two to four daily meals depending on type, stresses clean feeding areas, and warns that overfeeding or incorrect proportions waste food and harm digestion. It calls for skilled feed overseers and regular testing to improve dairy profitability and stock condition.
The article argues for price fairness based on milk quality rather than weight alone, calling for tests that reflect butter fats and cheese-making value. It warns current parity wastes high-grade milk, disadvantages producers with superior cattle, and hints at factory reforms and better grading to ensure just compensation.
The article stresses cleanliness and proper winter housing for fowls, whitewashing roosts, fixing windows, and preventing air drafts. It warns against forcing outdoor roosting, notes November and December as barren for eggs, and explains diet needs including lime from shells and ashes, with emphasis on warmth, water, and abundant food to maintain egg production.
In Ohio Farmer, L N Bonham argues pork prices hinge on farmer behavior not production cost. He calculates pork yield per bushel of corn, showing 70 bushels of new ear corn to one pound of pork, and notes weather disease and timing determine margins. He urges better breeding feeding and marketing to maximize grain value.
Stock men know salt is essential for best restats and milk flow in cows. The French commission set daily allowances by animal type, from two ounces for oxen and dairy cows to up to four ounces for fattening oxen, with specific amounts for pigs sheep horses and mules. On small farms salt can be dispensed daily in troughs. large herds benefit from sheltered, elevated or reachable boxes. a West plan mixes salt with hardwood ashes and water to form a lickable lump. Pale hints of Peuruvian bark and Brown's Iron Bitters finish the fragment.
The World notes that salt hastens livestock to return home at night, reinforcing the belief that allowing cattle and sheep extended daytime runs in cities strengthens thrift and reduces the need for additional inducements.
The article argues for feeding stock rich food to produce rich manure, claiming larger crops yield more manure and more manure yields larger crops. It stresses soil study, experiments, and avoiding guesswork, asserting barnyard manure as the foundation of profitable farming and rain utilization.
Practical farming note on manure value and methods to prevent washout. Describes level, water-tight yards, cave troughs, and roof runoff management. Recommends moisture control, lime and plaster to curb ammonia loss, and deep bedding strategies for cattle and horses.
Public attention focuses on Chicago dressed beef shipped by refrigerator cars to Eastern cities. Debates arise over impact on local butchers, stockyards, and railroads, which fear loss of business and seek higher charges to deter the dressed meat trade. Vanderbilt Energy? Brown's Iron Tonic Bitter mentioned as a tonic.
Practical guidance on fruit storage and disease, soil fertility, and farm practices drawn from an agricultural column. Topics include storing apples near freezing, testing egg age, Peach yellows disease, orchard care, cotton seed value, potash fertilization, indoor plant care, wheat crops, livestock feed, and market notes on tobacco taxes and cheese prices.
Boston shop windows showcase novelty advertising with live figures and mechanical scenes to draw crowds. Stores from Tremont to Green and Washington streets feature animated men, animals, toys, and props, with humor and sensational displays boosting foot traffic and sales.
About eighteen years ago John Melner planted an upside down apple tree with roots in the air and foliage underground. The surviving shoot thrived, producing sour edible fruit like a grey apple tree. It forms a five foot tall, thirty foot diameter table shaped canopy, supported limbs, and yields up to two bushels of apples in favorable years, resembling a tea umbrella from a distance.
A recent work La Superficie de Europe by General Strelbitsky claims Europe is 188000 square kilometres larger than thought. He cites a total area of 10010486 square kilometres with 9846028 on the continent and 664463 on islands, reshaping estimates for Scandinavia France Hungary and reducing sizes for Italy Great Britain Spain and Portugal. The three smallest states Liechtenstein San Marino and Andorra are cited as 169 85 and 21 square kilometres respectively, Andorra being only about a third of Berlin’s 60.6 square kilometres.
A woman with deteriorating general health used Compound Oxygen. She reports relief from a back-of-eyes distress, improved nasal catarrh, and gradual overall improvement. The notice promotes a treatise on Compound Oxygen with case reports and information, offered free by Drs Starkey and Palmer of Philadelphia.
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