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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1881
Page
2
The article argues for practical field tests to settle potato planting questions, noting two eyes per hill yields more vigorous growth with fewer small tubers. It compares seed end versus large end outcomes, and discusses high northern seed versus homegrown stock, plus notes on cane sugar production methods and costs.
Practical January plan for selecting hatching eggs and brooding hens. Advice covers egg storage, buying from nearby breeders, building and using nesting boxes, managing brooding, feed choice, ventilation, and monitoring hens. Recommends Brahma as reliable sitters and discusses egg numbers, hen age, vermin control, and disease issues for successful early hatch.
The World outlines tobacco seed bed setup with southern exposure, rich virgin loam, and two bed preparation methods. It covers seed rate, rolling, watering, and protecting beds with brush, hay, or straw, plus timing for burning beds from December to March and the benefits of ash incorporation to suppress weeds.
Practical guidance covers crop rotation on heavy lands, preparation of sheep skins for mats, lamb twin management, early poultry care, butter preservation, fruit tree treatment, and farm economics. It notes warming conditions for hothouse crops, beekeeping risks in winter, and industry data on hogs, cheese, and beef.
The article argues for reforms in sugar camp equipment to boost syrup quality and compare costs with amber sorghum. It emphasizes cleanliness, economics, and replacing old tools with modern fixtures, such as pine or galvanized pails, to improve grade and market appeal.
A period guide discusses window hangings, scrum fabric, cretonnes, and home decor trends. It advises color introductions, embroidery, and oriental effects, plus practical upholstery tips, painting on brown or gray paper, and a method for a window transparency using two panes of glass and muslin.
The piece explains frame use for even stitches, outlines for leaves, and stitches to avoid puckering. It covers fabric choices like pongee and linen for towels and covers, warns against nonwashable materials, and stresses careful color blending with blues, reds, browns and greens to achieve harmonious results.
A long OCR passage blends knitting instructions for a fancy-wor k necktie with a Milwaukee Sentinel note about St Jacobs Oil as a rheu matism remedy. The sewing pattern details include multiple rows, stitches, and the suspender stitch, followed by an unrelated city advertisement for the remedy and its growing sales.
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