Bees in the cornice and home fruit growing guidance
A rural advice column discusses how to handle bees entering a house cornice but questions the practicality of saving them alive. It weighs removal vs leaving bees undisturbed, sharing a past instance of a house hive and suggesting professional help or letting them go if not troublesome. It then shifts to practical methods for growing strawberries raspberries and blackberries, including planting times, varieties, mulching, and pruning. It ends with general livestock feeding guidance and cautions on grain-rich foods, attributed to Professor L. B. Arnold.
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Arthur's Flame
American Dairyman
American Poultry Journal
Atlantic Monthly
Army & Navy Journal
British Quarterly Review
Mackwood's
Drainerd
Teadie
Burlington Hawkeye
Toys of
New York
Talloy's
Wit
Detroit Free Press
Eevee
Edinburgh Review
Bepeenensegswe Mog
Ae Forney
Vrauke Leslie
Chimney Corner
Germantown
Green
Lippincott'’s
London Lancet
London Edinburgh Review
London Quarterly Review
Seb Terracenerenens
American History
Mining Record
Eesaexf
Mother’s Magazine
North American Re
N. Y
Medical Journal
Boston Medical and
Cricket
Donahoe’ 8
Golden Days
Herald of Health
Fashion Bazar
Bee-keeper's
Murax Babylands
Boston Pilot
Boston Medical Joy Christian Leader
Century Magazine
Cottage Hearth
Cottage and Farm
Country Gentleman
Connecticut Farme
Chicago Advance Christian Herald
Courier-Journal
Home Journal
Indiana
International Review
Town Homestead
Journal of Microscopy
Deus Journal of Chemistry
le Francais
N.Y
Ohio Farmer
Puck
Portland Transcript
Phrenological Journal
Prince’on Review
Sseeersses
Prairie Farmer
Sobsus
Peterson’s
Lady's Magazine
Popular Science Monthly
Produce Exchange Bulletin
Philadelphia Medical Times
Practical Farmer
Rideout’s Magazine
Rural New Yorker
Saturday Evening Post
Selentific American
Sunday School Times
Sunny South
Stj"nicholas
Vick’s Floral Magazine
Westminster Review
Wide Awake
Waverley Magazine
Watchman
Cveereeeeress
Western Stock Journal
Tuk
GLOBE
Magazin
Campaign to curb bogus butter gains farmer and consumer unity
The piece urges fearless action against fake butter, arguing that farmers and consumers share a common stake. It notes Ohio politics, farmer advocate Stranahan, rising oleo production, and a drive to protect dairy livelihoods, warning of broader economic harm if adulteration continues.
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Ohio
Stranahan
Chagrin Falls
Cleveland
United States
W. H
Mall fruits for the family and farming advice in Ohio
An Ohio farmer focused article argues practical fruit growing is essential for small fruits, urging planting and post-plant care. It cautions farmers to find time for gardens, noting fruit reduces groceries and doctor bills, and discusses currants and gooseberries, pruning, manuring, weeding, and pest control including worms and ashes.
How to Build a Creamery In 19th Century Style
A farmer describes building a small creamery 16 by 24 feet with a lean-to engine room, describing equipment including a Curtis 300 gallon churn, two Boss churns, a butter-worker, and a 200 gallon team vat. He notes ice storage, drainage, and cost estimates for components, and advises on best cans and a collaborative approach with a wife skilled in butter making.
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Curtis
Jim
Safe Feeding for Cows in Medium Condition
The article advises maintaining cows in a medium condition to balance health and milk yield. It notes safer outcomes against parturial fever and other illnesses, suggesting that well-balanced rations convert more feed to milk. It warns against overfatting and recommends adjusting protein and energy sources for optimal assimilation and production.
Winter Dressing for Fruit Trees Gardener’s Dousing and Insecticide Tricks
A gardener recounts winter dressing of vines and peach trees to deter scale pests. He details mixtures of soft soap palatine and turpentine, later favoring varafine, plus syringe methods to coat trunks and interior house surfaces. He warns against skimmed syringing and stresses pre prune treatment to prevent spread.
How to Keep Celery for Winter Storage
Instructions from The Husbandman on preserving celery through winter. Maintain uniform 38 to 40 degree temperatures, avoid excess dryness, and store with soil at the roots. Pack celery in rows on the cellar bottom, water at roots, not leaves, to prevent decay, and use boards to separate tiers. Blanched and unblanched celery can be kept in trenches with boards and straw or manure as weather cools, ensuring no standing water and gradual thaw if frozen.
Feeding hens for winter laying and care tips
The article explains winter laying depends on fair treatment, with steady feed and shelter. It recommends a grain mix of Indian corn, wheat, and oats plus animal foods like milk and scraps. discusses fats, albumen, and phosphates, and notes practical feeding details such as using hog lungs for fat, tied and hung for storage.
Winter Poultry Feeding and Shelter Tips from Gardening
The article notes hens thrive on certain foods and greens especially in winter. It stresses loose grain, potatoes, cabbage, and clover hay as substitutes when greens are scarce, plus gravel grit shells and bone meal for shell formation, with constant access. Proper warmth ventilation and light extend laying. Heating the house during cold snaps is a worthwhile expenditure.
Seasonable Carden Hints for Orchard and Garden Care
Practical garden advice for preparation and pruning to improve next year s fruit and vegetable yields. Emphasizes manure to beds, frame setup, early sowing care, temperature 46 degrees for radishes and lettuce, lifting sashes, washing tree stems, lime wash or alternatives, surface manuring, leafy matter and sand, pruning aims for vigor, thinning weasel branches, and keeping shoots near the ground for grapes and general tree health.
Practical wintering method for cabbage plants outlined
From a Fronmra circular via Peter Henderson Co, a cheaper method shifts cabbage wintering from cold frames to a heated setup. Start seeds February 1 in shallow boxes, use manure and soil layers, place in protected cold frames, keep frost out with dry leaves or manure, shade briefly, and finish transplanting by April 1.
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Fronmra
Peter Henderson & Co
New York
Storing Apples For Winter In A Well Ventilated Cellar
An experienced fruit dealer advises postponing cellar storage until there is a light frost inside the barrel. Use only sound apples and head the barrel to prevent baking, then expose to brief frost without deep chilling. Keep apples in a well ventilated room near freezing, separate from potatoes, and vent to remove carbonic acid gas. Do not unhead until needed and avoid sorting rotten fruit.
Care of Lawns and Winter Manure Practices
A well-kept front yard or country lawn pleases the eye but drains soil through mowing. Stable manure, lightly covering the grass in winter, protects young shoots and keeps sword green. Apply early winter or mix with good soil. spring applications are less effective. Rake and renew as needed for spring green growth.
Hot bed method described for Milwaukee gardener
There are many places where stable manure for an ordinary hot bed is hard to obtain and others where the smell of the fermenting material is not pleasant. A Milwaukee amateur uses an excellent method observed by an American Florist correspondent. The bed is located about thirty feet north of the building.
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American Florist
Milwaukee
Innovative hot water bed uses coil pipe system
A farmer built a compact hot water bed with a detachable gas pipe coil. Two one inch lines run under ground to the bed, branched along its length, and connected to an expansion tank. Frozen ground in March yielded an early vegetable crop, with a forty by four foot bed beneath the house basement.
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Ted
Winter Prep For Bees And Comb Honey
Beekeeping guidance on outdoor wintering with chaff and leaves or cellar storage, timing to avoid frost, and preparing for a harsh winter. Emphasizes dry hive placement, safe storage of sections, warming combs for any remaining extracting, and selling comb honey now to guard value and appearance. Encourages sticking to the home market and planning for cold conditions.
The Wool Fibre and Its Use in Tech Nical Purposes
Dr F H Bowman of Bradford outlines how wool quality hinges on sheep health climate and care. Severe weather thickens or irregulars fibers while wetting drying rots fibres and washes out natural grease leaving dry hard threads. Proper nourishment and shelter improve consistency and washed tepid water keeps wool bright. warm water dulls luster.
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F. H. Bowman
Technical College of
Bradford
England
Classification and Grades of Tobacco in Historical Text
Major Ragland outlines tobacco classifications distinguishing leaf from lugs and primings, then details dark shipping, fillers, and bright wrappers. The article notes Virginia and North Carolina as premier regions, with concerns over declining quality in some classes and a shift toward sweeter colors and healthier profiles.
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R. L. Ragland
Denmland
Virginia
North Carolina
Facts to Remember from Farm Notes on Butter and Crops
Major Alvord explains soft butter forms in warm weather due to cow and dairy conditions, while Jerseys and Guernseys produce firmer butter with proper milk handling. The column covers seed corn drying, apple and potato crops, tobacco acreage, hog care, plough care, pork pricing, kainit cautions, peach tree mulch from tobacco stems, pig feeding, timber seasoning, and crop rot in 1885, with practical tips for cultivation, storage, and farm labor.
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Henry E. Alvord
Jerseys
Guernseys
Channel Island
America
New England
Wisconsin
Flying Machines and the Dream of Flight Through Ages
The article surveys humanitys long fascination with flight from ancient myths to medieval freethinkers. It notes youths favor wings in angel pictures, cites persistent pursuit of flying machines, and mentions Daedalus Friar Bacon and Albertus Manus as early explorers of flight and hydrogen properties.
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Seraphin
Boston
Raphael
Michael Angelo
Daedalus
Ieanus
Albertus Manus
Friar Bacon
The Flying Dreamers and the Atlas of Air Attempts
The article traces historical failed aerial experiments from Jet de la Bretonne to Landell, noting repeated hopes to fly. It describes tangled wings, umbrellas, and parachutes, with many inventors breaking bodies or failing to rise. Balloons eventually proved the safest path, while other contraptions repeatedly failed.
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Jet de la Bretonne
Retif
America
New World
Spain
Patent Office
United States
Hensons Mechanical Bat A Twenty Four Century Idea
In 1842 English inventor Mr Henson created a wind propelled flying machine described as an oversized bat with a propeller. He tested it by rolling downhill to gain speed and then releasing. the craft spread its cloth wings and shot upward like smoke, showcasing a device claimed to fly without muscular effort.
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United States
Landell
Mr. Henson
Henson
Andell square rigger of a cannon ends in ridicule
The passage describes Andell as a limited airplane inventor whose "aerial sled" failed to rise properly, landing in a heap and inviting ridicule from the crowd. After several trials with little height, he gave up aerial pursuits and later found more success as a clock maker, seemingly skilled at annihilating expectations.
Weekly Globe Club List of Subscriptions and Prices
A dense catalog of magazine titles and subscription rates offered by The Weekly Globe, listing American and British periodicals across arts, science, farming, and general interest. Includes publishing houses, pricing tiers, and ordering notes for single or multiple subscriptions.
Private shotgun duel over girl ends with clothing bargain
In Georgia two suitors, Thomas and Roberts, prepared to duel for a farmer’s daughter. Roberts offered to yield if Thomas would provide him a suit of clothes, a proposal Thomas accepted, and the winner gained the girl.
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Chicago Times
Georgia
Thomas
Roberts
Canon Farrar Calls Boston Athens of America
The Buffalo Express notes Canon Farrar praising Boston as the Athens of America while American Athenians approve. It adds Rochester’s status as Timbuctoo of the United States to ease any regional tensions toward the canon in this area.
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Buffalo Express
Canon Farrar
Boston
Athens
America
Rochester
Uni
A Blessed Relief from Niagara Falls Puck Cartoon
A Puck cartoon riffs on Shakespeare’s cry for a horse to mock the Long Branch tax burden and a nosy local official. The caption imagines Niagara Falls as relief sought from ruling charges in a mocking regional vignette.
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Niagara Falls
Puck
Shakespeare
Long Branch
Lackman
Why He Is Habitually Melancholy Luck
The editor laments loneliness when unable to find scissorable jokes. Advertisements tout Hale's Money cough remedy at 25 cents, Glenn's Sulphur Soap, German Corn Remover, Mills Hair and Whisker Dye, Pike's Toothache Drops, and Dean's Rheumatic Pills with various prices, reflecting a period ad style and product lineup.
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Hale
Glenn
Mill
Pike
Dean
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Hartig
West Virginia
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Missouri
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Retif DE LA Bretonne
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