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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1884
Page
2
A detailed treatise on crop rotation argues that soils exhaust with cultivation and differ in how they are consumed by various plants. It outlines five core principles including soil exhaustion, plant variety impact, differing root and nutrient use, and weed control, urging farmers to tailor rotations to soil type, climate, and market factors.
A. M. W. advises farmers to diversify crops to ensure subsistence for all workers and dependents. He urges minimizing transport labor by cultivating on remote lands with fodder or manure producing plants, and using soil binding plants on light, sloped soils to prevent erosion and drying from sun.
A British observer argues that American farmers face an artificial cost burden from tariffs and taxes, while English farmers benefit from cheaper land and lower production costs. He contrasts wheat yields, land values, labor efficiency, and per acre value, concluding English farming may gain relative advantage as American costs rise.
John W. Bookwalter argues in the London Miller that fixing the wheat price by government raises production costs and harms farmers, workers, and industry. He warns artificial food price increases ripple through the economy, elevating input costs and wages without delivering net gains.
The article argues humane milking boosts milk yield and quality. It advises kindness, calm handling, clean udders, and regular milking times, with careful preparation of equipment and careful, efficient technique to prevent injury and disease. It warns against rough handling and wetting hands, urging trained, trustworthy milkers and supervisor oversight.
The article argues dedicating more labor to fruit cultivation, especially apples, increases farm profits. It outlines affordable orchard methods for rocky land, including seed saving, grafting, hillside plantings, mulching, staking, and protective fencing, plus soil enrichment and later pasture use. It advocates thorough understory care, annual mulching renewal, and converting six to eight year old orchards to permanent pasture.
The Germantown Telegraph advises on farm care noting that nibbling close and consuming all immature apples prevents pests. It recommends supplying green food with a bit of oil cake bran and grain to enrich manure and keep trees bearing fully.
The article explains the traditional Gerome cheese from France, detailing milk heating, curdling, draining in wooden moulds with double hoops, and daily turning. It covers salting, drying, stacking in drying rooms, cave ripening, storage temperatures, and quality markers such as firm exterior, oily texture, and small interior holes. It contrasts good Gerome with inferior Gruyere like large holes and crumble.
An expert review of preserved eggs from a late show tested two eggs from each of thirty-one lots kept over three months in dairy conditions. Salt, gum arabic, wax, oil, and resin methods yielded mixed results. some preserved for cooking, others unfit for sale or pastry. Water-based and gum treatments best preserved white while avoiding strong odors, but none proved suitable for eating as fresh table eggs.
A reader asks about preserving apples for a year. The method uses two thirds Mt down pure sweet apples, filling a kettle with them and adding cider to just cover. Do not stir, avoid breaking pieces, and press them down as they soften. Boil until done.
The article argues small fruit farming grows faster than large fruit operations. It notes early yields from strawberries and raspberries, rising demand, and strong markets for evaporated raspberries. Advice covers planning, drainage, winter soil work, and starting small with careful variety selection and early nursery correspondence.
A historical note compares Toulouse geese to Embsen and others, praising Toulouse as the largest and heaviest among Anser species. It describes size, weight, plumage shades, bill and leg coloration, upright carriage, and the distinctive abdominal pouch extending from neck to belly.
Practical tips cover salt on manure piles to preserve fertility, making a cheap roller from old mowing wheels, scarifying seed beds, storing onions and potatoes, fence upkeep, curing bacon, manure subsoil fertility, corn costs in Iowa, Denmark butter and French poultry, making government dressing for harness, using coal ashes for potato dust, pre-winter farm preparations, thermometers for fruit cellars, evergreens transplanting advice, pruning currants gooseberries vines, winter stakes for young trees, and a call for a farm Matters shake up.
Farmers are urged to use well-bred sires to improve stock, with emphasis on cost effective breeding and early lamb promotion. Keep separate cocks and hens for winter, provide warmth for poultry, and ensure sun exposure. Shorthorns dominate fat stock prizes while Hereford and Angus rise. proper ram care and coarse feed are warned against. Warmth, succulent food, hygiene, and veterinary cautions accompany seasonal farm management.
A reader notice lists subscriptions for numerous journals and magazines with prices, discounts, and policy notes. It emphasizes one yearly Weekly Globe subscription per address, restricts multiple addresses, and instructs how to order and pay.
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