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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1882
Page
2
A reflective agricultural poem recalling rural scenes and memories as cows come home. Imagery threads through dusky dingle fields, bells, and old tunes, pairing farm life with nostalgia and seasonal light. Refrains like The cows come home recur with musical onomatopoeia and named cows.
J W Talbot summarizes hybridization as the core method behind new pear varieties, tracing Van Mons and Dana’s cross fertilization and seed hybridization. He argues cross pollination and seed lineage create successors like Hovey Clark Seckel and Bartlett seeds, while noting cellular biology and sports explain deviations.
The article discusses saving and applying liquid manure from cows and other livestock as a productive fertilizer. It describes a Vermont farmer, H Story, who built a cement pit to capture urine drainage, successfully using 40,000 pounds of liquid manure over two years and later 36 tons, noting liquid manure is neater to apply and often more valuable than solid manure. It details practical methods, discharge spouts, wagon setup, and the superiority of urine as plant food.
A Vermont agricultural note details experiments with urine and earth from under stables as potent crop fertilizer. It cites a farmer near Smead who saw grass yields soar when watered with urine enriched soil and notes substantial profits from barn earth applied to fields.
A seasoned colt trainer showcases patient, disciplined methods for breaking colts without flogging, using a steady old horse as aid and calm handling to teach obedience and harness awareness. The piece then shifts to breeding, care, and feeding pigs, arguing crossbreed advantages, proper feeding, vermin control, bedding ideas, and practical farm horticulture notes.
In animals by weight oxen hold more stomachs and contents than sheep and pigs hold more than sheep. Internal organs are similar across species, with pigs having slightly less blood. Fat yield varies: oxen 58-60 percent carcass, up to 70 for fattened. sheep about 58 percent, up to 64. pigs about yield for fresh pork including head and feet.
In this era of labor scarcity and high costs the author argues vegetables are essential and economical. He urges hiring only skilled hands, growing a wide range of crops, and using one-horse cultivators. He details soil preparation, manure layering, row spacing, and staggered planting for year round supply with pure seeds from established houses.
A guide from Rural New Yorker on selecting reliable cabbage and carrot varieties for small gardens, favoring Savoy and Winningstadt cabbages, Black and Golden Wax beans, Early Horn carrot, Bassano and Egyptian beets. Advice covers sowing, thinning, spacing, and waste reduction, plus constructing hotbeds and cold-frames for year-round produce.
Practical notes on livestock care and farming practices. Chiropractic tips about mange in cattle, sheep management, duck rearing, salting stock, humus in soils, meat exports, tobacco handling, plucking poultry, grafting wax, pig care, lime use, ram management, tanning hides, yoking young steers, egg selection, poultry diseases, bees and grapes, wool supply, chestnut flour, shed paints, barn coatings, and manure field cost calculations.
Instructions for constructing a hotbed using manure heat to begin early vegetable production. Step by step: prepare a conical manure pile, heat buildup, fork and refinish, pack bed to two and a half feet, cap with sash, add soil, monitor heat with a thermometer, and regulate moisture and airflow as seeds are sown.
Advertises Dr Benson's Celery and Chamomile Pills as curing neuralgia nervousness headaches sleeplessness paralysis and dyspepsia. Claims tested with satisfactory results and price details 50 cents per box depot and mail offers six boxes for 2 60 to any address. Sold by all druggists and located at 106 North Eutaw Street Baltimore Maryland.
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