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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1879
Page
2
A new weekly Globe department invites farmers nationwide to send in practical farm advisories. Communications should address topics in agriculture, including crop cultivation, stock management, dairy improvements, and farm life insights. Submit on one side of the sheet to Tuk WEEKLY GLOBE Boston Mass.
A long essay on animal husbandry warns that careless feeding harms horses and cattle. It contrasts European agricultural horses with American work horses, stresses gradual diet changes, and cites how hay, corn, and cud-chewing affect digestion and performance. It also covers reform in dairying, cheese making, and butter production.
Practical guidance on curing pork and making bacon from hogs, detailing barn temperatures, hanging, salting methods, and brining. Steps cover how to cut pork, arrange in barrels, and apply salt and brine, with cautions on temperature, flies, and turning barrels for safe preservation.
The Drovers Journal details the Chicago fat stock show test among Hereford shorthorn and Devon cattle. Three three year old steers were weighed after 24 hours on the hooks, with forequarters heavier for Hereford and Devon, and overall results indicating a very close contest with questions on fat distribution and testing methods.
The report notes mortality on voyages from America and Canada shows cattle losses about three percent, sheep two percent, and pigs over ten percent. It attributes improved outcomes to better cattle accommodation and health measures, reducing deaths from earlier rates as high as twenty five percent.
The text outlines feeding calves in dairy farming with milk for the first weeks, then skim milk boosted with ground linseed and grains, cooked and served warm. It also reports France’s probe into olive oil adulteration to protect genuine oil and olive culture, plus a note on wild rabbit as a seasonal food and waste reduction.
A fragmentary verse recounts three Bristol sailors who overeat at sea. Facing hunger at the equator they mock cannibalism before a sea voyage shifts to land. They sight Jerusalem, North and South America, and sail under Admiral Napier, with Bill spared by a higher turn of fate. The fragment ends invoking C. M. Thackeray.
The New York World reports a pact where Western Union telephony assets including Bell Edison Gray and Blake transmitters and related instruments will transfer to Bell Telephone Company. Western Union sells at cost, receiving one fifth of business returns. all telephones to be leased from Bell. The deal does not affect gas firms outside New York beyond name or organizational changes. Bell stock to rise from 350,000 to 8,000,000. About 100,000 telephones in use in the United States. Bell has introduced 4000 telephones across multiple countries and regions.
A verbose feature reviews anti-fat preparations led by Anti-Fat a fluid extract of fucus vesiculosus seaweed rich in iodine. It traces historic use, dosing forms and reported effects and cautions about slow action, taste aversion, and variable weight loss while calling for rigorous study. It also touches on snow eating hazards, damp bed risks, and Jersey milk digestion issues, ending with assorted tonics and home remedies.
The Paris week by the San Francisco Chronicle portrays Gustave Dore as a generous yet moody genius. Born in Alsace, he lives with his mother in Paris and keeps two studios, one in the Rue Dominque and another on Rue Bayard. He is intensely devoted to art, spoke frankly of his opinions, and harbors strong anti Prussian sentiments while maintaining wide knowledge of art, literature, and music.
A Manchester Guardian report states a widow, described as thin and thoughtful at thirty with six children, was left a dowry of £20 per year by her late husband. The money is to be paid as long as she remains unmarried, with the executors of the will acting as managers.
A Rochester youth D P Hicks famed for perfect pitch and memory hears locomotive bells from distant tracks. Known first in Buffalo, he can name hundreds of engine numbers, even when engines are renumbered or moved. Railroad men say this is a unique and remarkable ability with precise matching of old and new numbers.
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