Maple Sugar Juice Makes a Ripple in Industry Notes
The article discusses sugar production costs, profits from sugar versus market value, and potential water power savings. It critiques driving horses on rough roads, stressing proper footing, halting on grades, and using diagonally across the road to ease starts. It also covers drainage, manure, soil preparation, seed quality, and seasonal gardening practices, including seed timing, irrigation, and tools to improve yields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OUI Cote Ip
Taneanrevt Lst
Agea
Eupar Rmes
Andrew H. Ward
Spring Work The Vegetable Garden
The vegetable garden for a large family should be formed so most work can be done with a horse and cultivator or a hand cultivator. Planting should be in long rows with minimal waste land, forming half acre to one acre oblong plots near the kitchen for convenience. Market gardeners adapt crops to soil types, but a single family garden relies on shared cultivation and careful preparation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stantin Voulder
Liller
Canada
Genegses Farmers’ Club
The
Tribune
Kitchben
Potato culture in Genesee county shows soil prep and new implements
A Genesee county potato guide outlines soil thoroughness, moisture, and seed size. It describes seeding from June 1 to 15, row spacing two feet eight inches to three feet, and two to three inch depth. The sugar beet? no, the planter’s equipment includes a two-row covering implement drawn by two horses and a one-horse cultivator with killer attachment, plus a plank scraper for weed control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genesee County
Culture and Varieties of Corn from The Tribune
A grower describes corn culture on a yellow clay upland yielding 75 bushels per acre with heavy manure use, timely ploughing, and seven cultivations. He notes variety selection suited to latitude, seed quality, and harvest impact from ears versus stalk size, plus planting timing aligned to apple bloom.
Turnips as a Farm Crop for Fall and Winter Feed
Practical recommendations from F D Curtis on turning sod, manuring, ashes, and seed rates for a turnip crop. Covers soil preparation, harrowing, plastering, phosphate, and the use of a turnip coop to feed stock through late autumn, arguing it boosts beef and mutton while supporting young stock.
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F. D. Curtis
The
Agriculturist
Handling Sheep How I Raise Cotswold Ewes and Lambs
Twenty two years ago I began with Cotswold sheep paying 26 for ewes and 30 for a buck lamb. I built pens and barns to shelter and feed them with oats corn and hay. Lambing starts February 16 with lambing pens 4x6 feet in the center of the barn and mares of shelter through cold weather. The ewes stay in separate pastures and the flock returns nightly for oats water salt and hay.
Sheep Breeding Practices Track Flock to Eighty Ewes
The narrator details lambing and tagging methods, feeding after weaning, and seasonal separation of bucks from ewe lambs. They plan an eighty head breeding flock, with selective culling to reach that number. Wool yield has averaged over twelve pounds per ewe for three years, with clipped lambs in spring. Breeding ceases after three to four years. ewes do not lamb until age two. Two bucks used, third reserved for top-off.
How to Raise Fine Fowls
Practical guide from Country Gentleman on rearing chicks with large, well-ventilated housing, proper sun exposure, and careful brood management. Emphasizes vermin-proof, water-tight coops, spread-out mothers, uniform egg size, and selecting hens aged one to two years for consistent chick development.
How To Make A Hotbed From Manure And Glass
Practical instructions for constructing a hotbed using a manure pit with glass cover, including pit dimensions, frame setup, watering, and soil topping, plus steps to build sash frames and seasonal planting guidance for lettuce radish cabbage cauliflower beet tomatoes sweet potatoes with sowing and transplant timing.
The Farm Stock and Profitable Meat Making
The article argues for on farm meat production as essential to fertility, advocates keeping cattle and pigs, feeding grain to cows to boost milk and pig feed, and stresses warm stables to conserve animal heat. It cautions against exposing stock to cold as wasteful and costly, urging farmers to maintain warm housing for profitability.
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Coul Probeby
Foundations and Auxiliaries for Early Efforts
A quotation cites F D Curtis stating foundations and necessary auxiliaries must be in place before attempting productive work. The note implies postponing efforts such as Feet or pork payments until proper support is provided.
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F. D. Curtis
Country Gentleman
Epps
Ulvik Service Gazette
James Epps & CO
Homeopathic Chemists
London
England
The Maple Tree and Its Product and Uses
The maple product, though about 2 percent of national sugar consumption, is important. Vermont dominates production, with others like New York, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, Wisconsin, Massachusetts contributing. Sugar maple yields sap via taps, boiled into syrup and sugar, with quality depending on clean collection. Proper spouts reduce tree damage. white syrup possible with clean, covered collection and careful processing.
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Vermont
New York
Ohio
Indiana
Virginias
Wisconsin
Massachusetts
Middle States
Mississippi River
Agriculturist
The Cabbage Seed in Place of Transplanting
Mr Green explains a cabbage growing method using direct sowing in hills with fertilizer and soil cover. He notes timings around June 9, seed counts per hill, plaster as pest protection, and the potential to head without transplanting. He cites trials with Fotler's Brunswick and American Savoy, praising the approach for high land values and multiple-crop yields.
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Fotler
Farming guide covers soil, grape growing and cattle fodder
Practical advice on preparing land for vineyards including plowing, harrowing, and subsoiling techniques, and planting distances. Also covers grape care, fertilizers, and pruning. Included are sheep feeding rations, cotton stem feed value, foot disease treatment for livestock, horse buying cautions, seed testing, and top-dressing grapevines with wood ashes and bone dust.
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Delaware
Leicester
Cotswold
Edward Atkinson
New Jersey
Timothy
Budd
Iowa Agricultural College
Advancin
Harvard and Yale in a New York life debate
The Harvard Yale contrast is examined through anecdotes about social circles and the professional paths of graduates. The piece notes Harvard’s literary prominence, its shifting role as graduates move toward broader opportunities, and the influx of Harvard writers into New York’s burgeoning literary scene, including Life magazine.
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New York Tribune
Harvard
Yale
Connecticut
Cincinnati
Kentucky
Life
Harvard Wits
Roston
New York
A Dog That Goes to Market
New London Day reports a dog story where Pilot Chappell spots a dog with a ham from a market door. The ham thief heads to Starr street, reaching his owner’s kitchen and delivering the ham before being caught. An aside advertises job placements for house workers at 19 Winter Street with post-10 A.M. calls.
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New London
Henry Schwaner
Pilot Chappell
Starr Street
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Ile
Siew
Crpg
Paris
Gether
Mr. Green
Egi
V.E. A
Winter Strees
Charles A. Vogeler Co
A. Vogeler & CO
Battimore
New England Medical Institute
Tremont Row
Ap2
Sudwytt
Boston
Mass
Barney
Dr. Graves
Express
E. Ingalia
Concord
N. H
Richmond
Istetter
Cartier, Harris & Hawley
Fortune
Sworgeler
Louisville, Ky
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