Early Crop Advice and Garden Practices from Farm and Fireside
Agricultural guidance covers soil preparation, fertilizer use, seed selection, and early crop techniques. Topics include clover sod, manures, gypsum, seed handling, and careful planting of potatoes with eye count and hill spacing. Also discussed are garden layout, crop rotation, planting methods, and specific care for tomatoes, sunflowers, and other vegetables to optimize yields.
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Burbank
Ow York
Hewes
Merino Lamb Rearing and Feeding Guidance
A historical note on raising merino lambs emphasizes balanced grain feeding, plenty of exercise, water, and open shed housing. It covers hay and corn fodder, small daily grain rations, vigorous rams, and strategies for weak newborns including warming milk with hog lard to stimulate suckling and reduce costiveness. It warns against breeding merino ewes before age three and details teat-training techniques for newborn lambs.
Maple Sugar Camp Innovations and Orchard Horticulture Notes
A long compendium on evaporator design for maple syrup, silica issues, and heating efficiency. plus pruning guidance for shrubs, canning tips, pig and poultry feeding, geese plucking schedules, and winter storage of pork. Also advice on rhubarb forcing, fruit-house design, winter mulching, pruning times, and seed germination checks for corn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp
Ater
Country Gent
Fire Protection For Farm Buildings Against Loss By Fire
Advice to farmers on preventing and fighting barn fires. Emphasizes insurance, strict no smoking near the barn, safe storage of matches, chimney checks, and removing combustibles when away. Recommends small hand force pumps and ladders stored for quick access to extinguish fires before they spread.
What farmers should know about celery seed sowing
In short season areas sow celery seed in hotbeds late March or early April or use window boxes with punched bottoms. Keep soil moist until germination, then place boxes in a larger water bath with liquid manure. Move outdoors to harden once weather allows. Also discuss drainage planning for sloped land with main channels and appropriate pipe sizes.
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Uberal
Carlie
Gulf Coast
China
Dreer
BreTs
Jersey Wakefield
Winnigstadt
Brill
Minnesota
Crosby
Stowell
New York
Boston
Portugal
Wethersfield
Atlantic
B. K. Bliss & Sons
Laxton
McLean
Champion
England
Hubbard
Hathaway
Robertson
Erfurt
Jue
Emden
Toulouse
Northamptonshire
Eng
London
Readers urged to mention Boston Weekly Globe in ads
An advertiser appeal requests readers to note they saw the notice in The Boskon Weekly Globe when responding. The plea underscores the paper’s role in drawing attention to local offers and announcements.
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Boskon Weekly Globe
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Boston Weekly Globe
Andrew H. Ward
Jayne Sensis
Esesasst
al Eoalle
Andrew H. Warp
Heston Weekly Globe
New England
Eastern
Middle States
BANE
Ene
SSOE
Mae Couda
Pigasaabanss Dessaen
Potato Culture For Profit
Mississippi Valley
Charles A. Vogeler CO
Vogeler & CO
Baltimore
New England Medical Institute
Tremont Row
Boston, Mass
Graves
N. H
Hee
Epps
Civiervice Gazette
James Epps & CO
Richmond Medical
Joseph
Wells
Richardson
Hostetter
Carter, Harris & Hawley
Stoni
Moody
D.W. Moody
Cincinnati
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