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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1880
Page
3
A medical column defines a febrile horse disease with eye and mucous membrane involvement, detailing symptoms, progression, and home remedies. It also discusses importing Percheron and Clydesdale horses, signaling a shift to heavy farming work over speed, plus ice-house tips for dairy use and butter making.
Advice on building a above ground ice house to store twenty tons of ice for a season, detailing construction, ventilation, packing with sawdust, and cost estimates around thirty dollars. Also recounts a Tribune described method of storing ice without an ice house using a northern exposure under a cow shed and thick sawdust insulation.
A blue book in England carries Professor Brown’s Texas cattle fever report, cited as trustworthy and aligned with U S authorities. The piece warns Northern states of infection risk from Gulf coast cattle, urges winter movement only, and details import controls, legal actions, and the peculiar nature of the disease. It then discusses cattle shipments to England, ship sizes, stalls, freight rates, insurance, and deck versus hold conditions, with figures on capacity and past large loads.
The article discusses selecting breeding fowls with care for Leghorns, stressing proper combs, body shape, and line purity, and notes disease prevention, egg production, and careful marking of eggs. It also covers duck farming habits, housing, feeding, and cleanliness, along with hog slaughter guidance and market factors affecting hog prices and demand. It includes advice on timberland planting as a long term profit and public benefits.
The eight months ended October 31 saw Western packing reach about 5.24 million hogs, up from 4.05 million last year, with seaboard receipts at 1.96 million, down from 2.02 million. Total pork flow rose to roughly 7.20 million hogs, an 18 percent gain, as Chicago’s mess pork corner closes and the pork market moves toward normalcy after the deal.
A Massachusetts study notes pine timber may outpace past estimates but warns persistent imports will wane. Despite new growth, widespread demand and rail transport will drain forests, risking future supply. Economic viability of farming pine depends on land value and long horizons, with profits rising if prices stay steady or grow.
Ohio farmers advocate feeding grain to live stock to improve soil fertility and profits. Finishing fattened cattle on farm rather than shipping half fattened stock boosts returns, while reducing transport costs. Breeding for thoroughbred stock, careful feeding, and on farm finishing are urged to sustain long term farm prosperity.
Practical guidance on breeding and fattening early lambs for market. Advice covers housing, milk feeding, dilution for rich cow milk, oilseed gruel, and a balanced diet to prevent scouring. Emphasizes clean air, gradual acclimation to sheds, and seasonal considerations for the South versus the North.
A Brooklyn Eagle fragment depicting Porthos lamenting after betting across Pennsylvania New York Connecticut and other states on an election. He bewails losses, arguments with a stakeholder, and a strained domestic scene as he contemplates the returns and the impact on his purse.
Patterned fancy-work describes a child’s night slip with open and close work, waist and sleeve construction, edging, and decorative cords. It gives foundation stitches, rounds, pattern figures, armholes, and finishing details, ending with a salve brand noted.
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