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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1881
Page
2
Practical guidance on curing pork for home use focusing on proper cooling after slaughter, brine versus dry salting, barrel packing, and avoiding taint. It covers cleaning barrels, salt layers, brine preparation, sugar or molasses additions, handling of excess salt, and timing for best results in cool weather with insect risk noted.
A western correspondent explains how surplus straw was once used to raise potatoes by laying straw in furrows, dropping seed potatoes, and covering with earth. The method reduced straw bulk, allowed harvest, and ploughing the residue back in spring, though it required heavy labor and had limited popularity before markets shifted to cattle, sheep, and grain.
An experienced shepherd outlines fattening rules starting in November or December with straw and a pound of oilcake per sheep for two months, then hay with reduced oilcake based on condition. Emphasizes regular feeding, salt, three meals daily, and the value of buckwheat. Discusses Shropshire sheep origins, traits, and performance, plus winter shelter lessons from 1880-81 and shed designs for protection.
The article describes pink-eye as an epizootic in spring and fall, with fever, limb swelling, tearing, and variable prognosis. It warns of complications like brain symptoms and paralysis, advises veterinary care, and outlines treatments including tonics, drenches, and supportive care. It then explains sand-crack, its causes from hard hoof and sandy work, and initial steps to assess and treat the crack.
The piece argues broomcorn stalks offer valuable fodder reducing feed costs. It details rapid harvest with reaping machines, curing in large stacks, and feeding stalks cut to half inch with bran. It notes corn stalks yield healthy feed for horses, mules, and cattle, and stresses timely harvest to preserve sweetness.
The article argues bulls should be trained to work rather than pampered, citing safer handling, cheaper labor, and stronger stock. It covers bull harnessing, nose rings, and team use, then shifts to horse care, hoof treatment, Derbyshire horses, stallion management, and broader farm practices for cattle, crops, and storage.
Farmers learn to feed milch cows and sheep with artichoke roots and stalks, using Jerusalem variety and better types like red Brazilian and white French. Details cover harvesting, storage, crop rotation, animal health with wet fleeces, nitrogen from ashes as fertilizer, and simple label-making methods from German sources.
The passage covers poultry weights and winter laying, lettuce sowing for early spring, dairy cow economics with cash payment figures, worm treatment for horses, dairy cattle breeding with Jersey blood, buckwheat production by New York and Pennsylvania, Missouri leading Western states, hulls in packing, wheat trade between cotton states and the North, Russia's export hopes, celery cold tolerance, and milk quality by cow age and fatness, plus a note on English views of the wheat crop.
A dated claim praises Coca Beef Tonic as a remedy for weak lungs chronic cough asthma and female ailments. It cites Coca use among South American Indians as preventing consumption and other diseases and asserts long lifespans.
Physicians praise Dr Benson's Celery and Chamomile pills for nervous disorders. They claim benefits for headache neuralgia sleeplessness and dyspepsia. Sold by druggists 50 cents a box depot 106 North Eutaw Baltimore. Mail offers available.
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