Use of Carolina Rock in Fertilizers for Profit
Andrew H. Ward invites readers to contribute on farming topics and to attend free lectures in New England. The article argues for using ground South Carolina rock as an insoluble phosphate, detailing soil chemistry and fermentation effects, and explains mixing ratios with lime and muriate of potash for best results.
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Andrew H. Ward
Mr. Ward
New England
Werexty Grosr
Boston
Mass
How a Small Farmer May Keep Out of the Poorhouse
A Ohio farmer with a wife and five children, 18 acres near a city, explores growing fine small fruits to outpace poverty. He should raise high quality berries, reach consumers directly, and emphasize timely, thorough work. The note urges gradual changes, local market building, and patience, citing success from others.
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Ohio
Farnsworth
T. B. Terry
Proper Ice Storage For Dairy Farms
Practical guidance on building an ice house for dairy use. Emphasizes tight packing with sawdust straw or tanbark, minimal air spaces, nonconducting surroundings, proper ventilation, and a dry foundation. Details on straw types, gap sizing, and tile drainage for keeping ice dry.
Ice storage building construction from 19th century notes
A detailed, older guide describes building an ice storage shed with ventilation, two sections for packing material, and options from simple post and batten construction to brick or stone foundations. It explains sizing for a 10 ton liberal supply, methods for cutting, handling ice only in freezing weather, and design to minimize air leakage and moisture buildup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Armer
Refining Lard in Slow Fire Pots and Careful Handling
The article details refining lard by melting fat in large iron pots over a slow coal fire. It covers washing, skimming, straining, and seasoning with herbs, plus careful control of heat to prevent cloudiness. It discusses separating leaf fat from entrail fat, storage in cool dry rooms, and vessel choices to avoid taint from wood.
Wintering Bees in Iowa Colonies Core Ideas from a Practical Treatise
The article argues for central brood passages to speed early brood, supports sectional brood chambers for strong late winter, and recommends space under combs and cushions over frames to prevent moulding and moisture. It compares indoor versus outdoor wintering, noting outdoor yields more honey and earlier spring, with data from trials of 10 colonies. It describes winter packing cases with layered boxes, air spaces, and moisture tests, illustrating practical hive construction for cold storage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Langstroth
Hive temperature and packing influence hive efficiency
The article discusses maintaining hive temperatures with outer boxes and packing to prevent freezing. It compares outer case use with improved weight-frame chalf hives, noting they are lighter, neater, and cost only slightly more than single-walled hives. Hutchinson quotes resistance to costly equipment while highlighting practical benefits.
Experiments With Commercial Fertilizers on Wheat in Ohio
The Ohio Experiment Station tested commercial fertilizers on wheat and found, on a Columbiana county duplicate, that most fertilizer use reduced grain yield while increasing straw. The report details yields per plot, costs per acre for nitrate, phosphate, potash, and barnyard manure, and notes farm management and underdrained soil influence.
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Ohio Experiment Station
Columbiana County
Ordin Farm
Ohio
Colombiana
Feasig
Bushell
Goda
Front fences in older communities should be abolished
In older suburbs fences along public roads are unsightly and unnecessary. Fences protect property lines only where law enforcement fails, but most lines can be marked with hardy materials rather than formal hedges. Remove front fences to improve public taste and sight lines.
Working Horses Without Shoeing A Farmer's Practical View
A veteran farmer from Charles River Village Mass shares 60 years experience with unshod horses. He notes soil and road wear vary by horse, cites examples including a hard Hambletonian and a Percheron, and argues outcomes depend on individual hoof toughness. Testing on local farm and roads is advised to decide shoeing needs.
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Charles River Village
Mass
George M. Patchen
Black Hawk
Old Pork Brine Method for Curing Packed Barrels
A veteran pork packer details a curing method using old brine and salt in layered barrels. He suggests scalding, cooling, and packing in small pieces, pressing firmly, and adding repeated salt layers until the barrel is full, then weighing with a stone and covering with brine.
Underdraining Proves Value on Farms Says Prof Emery
Prof F E Emery of the North Carolina experiment station urges farmers to underdrain wet grounds citing health and economic benefits. A案例 shows a swampy field converted to dry corn ground. stream straightening sped drainage, cutting a channel deeper and accelerating water flow.
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F. E. Emery
North Carolina Experiment Station
The Lesson of Road Design in Hilly Terrain
The text argues against carving straight routes over hills in hilly country. It explains that a single hill degrades the whole road length, encourages loose stones raising effective grade, and recommends gently varying grades rather than a constant level for easier hauling and better durability.
Curing Pickle From Germantown Telegraph Recipe
A historical adroit guide to curing beef pork mutton and hams using a salt sugar saltpetre and potash pickle. Boil to remove sugar dirt then cool and pour over meat, keep covered and wait two days while sprinkling saltpetre, yields sweet fresh colored meat with a single trial.
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Germantown
Testeem hay from Hungarian grass for dairy cows
A farmer touts Testeem hay made from Hungarian grass as a top forage for milch cows. He shares eight years of success, notes higher butter yield than standard hay, and outlines sowing timing and detailed field practices to produce 3-4 tons per acre. He also describes cutting, drying, and curing steps for millet hay to optimize storage and feed quality.
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Acre
Feeding Sheep and Feed Values for Winter
Discussion on feeding sheep through winter using apples potatoes straw and grain. Estimates compare corn barley buckwheat oats oil meal bran prices and the potential profitability of selling straw or feeding it to sheep, with calculations for feeding costs, sheep gains, and manure value.
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Sartr
Ground bone samples examined in New Jersey bulletin
Bulletin No 84 of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station reports on the examination of ground bone and over 60 miscellaneous samples. It notes limited state use, a total product near 3000 tons, and analyzes mechanical value by sieve grades with four price tiers.
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New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
E. B. Voorhees
Bone based fertilizers favored by New Jersey farmers
A bulletin favors bone meal as a cheaper fertilizer option over complete fertilizers, noting bone contains 2.6 percent nitrogen and 10 percent available phosphoric acid. It advises local testing to confirm economic benefits and cautions against assuming bone is always superior. The state station’s fertilizer examinations generally meet standards, with a few exceptions highlighted for farmer guidance.
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New Jersey
Prof
Stewart
Country Gentleman
Drainage method for clay soils and hard pan
The writer describes digging a 2 percent feet deep main trench to reach hard pan, then a central smaller ditch with side slopes to a point six inches down, leaving a 2 inch shoulder. The small ditch is covered with large stones resting on the shoulders, filled with small stones to one foot from the top, then covered. The plan is claimed to be very successful.
Inury from freezing harms fruit and crops explained
A long explication on freezing injury to apples potatoes and nursery trees with recovery methods in soil or water. Notes vast corn beef and pork markets and the effect of tariff changes on US meat and grain. Also discusses skimmed milk buttermilk composition and practical poultry brooders and livestock care.
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United States
Aize
England
France
Germany
Russia
Holstein
Ayrshire
Jersey
Earthquakes and lunar tides suggest moon influence
Youth's Companion notes a theory that earthquakes cluster near new and full moons. It compares tidal forces from sun and moon to stresses on the earth's crust, proposing that aligned gravity raises seas and also strains rocks, provoking quakes when the moon is at new or full phases.
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New Moon
The Licorice Tree Its Home in Asia Minor
In Harper's Young People the licorice plant is described as a small three foot shrub native to Asia Minor near the Tigris and Euphrates. Roots are winter dug and dried for a year before being pressed into bales at Pagded and shipped to London then America for tobacco production. Black licorice sticks from Spain use pure juice with starch and bay leaf wrapping. The word licorice means sweet root in Greek.
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Asia Minor
Spain
Harper's
Tigris
Euphrates
Europe
Christopher Columbus
Cuba
Genoa
Atlantic Ocean
London
Paris
Berlin
New York
Canton
China
Vienna
John’s Island
Charleston
Thebes
France
Rochester
N. Y
Hannibal
Saugatuck
Mich
Lafayette County
Virginia
United States
New York City
Barns
Philadelphia
Boston
Hatch
Desnatch
Germany
Huron
N. D
North Dakota
Mt. St. Elias
Asia
Wiggins
Wurtemberg
Huygner
Old Tower
Heath
Catania
Mt. Etna
Santa Fe
New Mexico
Colima
Mexico
Delaware
New Jersey
Hyderabad
Inkegami
Japan
India
Amrista
St. Dombaga
West India Islands
Liverpool
Coi of Justice
Hielgeland
Nerica Walpher Columbus
Ivke
Ventura
Jayson Comments on Women Admittance and Parade Customs
In a remark from the Elmira Gazette tone, Jayson says he would not object to admitting women to every walk of life if they promise not to go three abreast on Washington Street, a quip reflecting social norms discussed in the era.
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Elmira Gazette
Jayson
Sheep and Dogs Debate Shapes Winter Agricultural Meeting
The second day of Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture sessions opened with Hon. James Grinnell’s paper, followed by Secretary Sessions proposing a six wire barbed fence at 44 cents a rod as dog and sheep protection. Reports on flock finances showed profits and losses for multiple ewe groups. John E. Russell recalled prior efforts to promote sheep farming, arguing annual profits are nearly assured. Jabez Fisher discussed fruit growing demands, fertilizers, and pest control with Paris green and kerosene mixtures. Weather Bureau official J Warren Smith urged wider storm monitoring and public alerts across New England. The meeting adjourned after remarks and demonstrations lingered on crop protection and meteorology.
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State Board of Agriculture
James 8. Grinnell
Greenfield
Grinnell
D. A. Houghton
Northampton
J. D. Avery
Buckland
John E. Russell
Leicester
Board of Agriculture
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Commonwealth
House of Representatives
Theississippi
United States
Daniel Needham
Germany
Vermont
Jabez Fisher
Fitchburg
Fernald
Massachusetts Agrigennrs
Paris Green
Twitchell
Maine
J. Warren Smith
United States Weather Bureau
New England
Old Colony
New York
Massachusetts
Hampden
Worcester
Washington
Japanese Ways Show Subtle oddities in old world manners
In a Chicago Clipper piece humorously contrasts Japanese habits with Western norms. It notes cakes baked upside down, jam tins opened from the bottom, vertical Japanese writing, and reversed address conventions, illustrating how traditional practices differ from English customs.
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Chicago
Dai Nippon
England
London
House Square
Times Office
Christian
Gama
Denen
Smith Peter Mr
Oddities from a bygone era mix science and curiosities
A long fragment-rich column surveys diverse notes from history and science. It traces potatoes in Europe, early Virginia cultivation, Raleigh’s voyages, Arctic nights in Hammerstein, and lists world city populations. It notes wonders like a huge Braganza diamond, artesian wells, unusual customs, and antique observations across nations.
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Carolina Rock
South Carolina
H. C. White
Georgia
D. C
Baltimore
J. B. Lawes
Eng
Poe
W. Johnson
Connecticut
George H. Cook
New Jersey Experiment Station
Andrew H. Warp
Apiary
Ohio Agricultural Station
Stirthen
Nis
Washington St
John BE. Russell
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