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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1889
Page
2
An 1870s guide explains soil terms and rock classifications, then details hotbed construction and management for early crops. It covers bed depth, south-leaning frames, ventilation, watering, temperature targets, thinning, and transitioning to open-ground planting, with notes on soil types and seedbed practice.
The article discusses how steam or hot water heated greenhouses have largely replaced hotbeds due to wider crop adaptability. It notes high market prices for December to May produce and explains that postwar open-air farming in Bermudas, Florida, Virginia, and southern Maryland, with fast steamship routes, offers profitable competition to hotbeds.
Prairie Farmer outlines several hotbed materials and methods. Horse manure with bedding provides strong heat, tempered by cow manure or leaves to extend warmth. Fermentation begins a week or two before use to avoid toxic gases. Pine needles, tanbark, and spoiled hay or straw wetted and packed thick also generate heat. Steam or flues offer cleaner alternatives. The goal is bottom soil heat to promote vegetation during freezing nights.
Farmers often skip many early plantings to make hotbeds profitable. Use a shallow three to four inch box with rich sandy soil kept warm and moist to germinate seeds. Favor early Jersey Wakefield or early Winnigstadt, sow lightly for sturdy, roomed plants and avoid excessive heat or crowding.
N. J. Shepherd notes cabbage prospers with air, moderate warmth, rich soil, and thorough cultivation. Plants thrive when thinned to row spacings of two to two and a half feet, or about one inch in the row for dense early crops. Early varieties require early plant stock and steady care for vigorous growth and larger heads.
A Kentucky perspective on choosing bronzed turkeys stresses strong parent stock for better offspring. Details cover age, weight targets, feathering, beak and wattles, and the advantages of purchasing a fine male while avoiding inbreeding.
A historical note discusses farm manure value across animals, noting how feed quality and type affect manure. It outlines five guiding points on how nutrition impacts fertility, with a rough table showing percentages of manure nutrients by age class and a follow-up table on solid and liquid outputs, though portions are garbled.
F D Douglas, president of the Vermont Dairymen Association, explains how his herd increased butter output from about 150 pounds per cow per year to over 300. He advocates selecting for butter-making ability, using full-blood Jersey stock, and culling based on merit rather than pedigree, noting success with herds of 356 cows or more.
Indiana Farmer urges abandoning cone shaped hills for vegetables. He describes forming basin shaped basins around each plant to capture rain and dew, reducing water loss. Deep soil stirring near roots with simple tools improves growth of onions radishes beets turnips potatoes and other crops by loosening and pulverizing soil for larger roots bulbs and tubers.
The writer argues fattening calves from a single cow yields more income than milking or dairy products. Citing a case where one cow produced $80 in a season, the piece advocates shifting from dairy to fattening calves as the more profitable approach.
A column argues for feeding a cow a calf and using a blanket to swap calves, asserting it preserves milk for the next year and reduces soil exhaustion. It claims the method is natural, practical, and labor efficient with help from local butchers to source calves.
Pennsylvania experiment stations report six new wheat varieties tested over two years. The German Emperor leads in grain yield, proven hardy and suited to black mucky lowlands. It ripens early and yields 44.5 bushels per acre, outperforming other varieties.
Analysis of tubers and roots groups several produce items. The first set covers potatoes, cabbage leaves and pumpkins with detailed analytical results and comparisons across criteria. The report focuses on composition, nutrition, and storage implications for these products.
Exports of apples from all American ports for the week ending Feb 9 totaled 32,123 barrels with Boston 4,214 New York 16,180 Portland 4,924 and Halifax 6,803. Season exports reach 1,184,215 barrels mainly from Boston New York Montreal Portland and Halifax.
The druggist advertises galvanic batteries in square leather boxes priced at seven dollars each or a quarter a week for rental. He notes rheumatism and paralysis patients use them, and calls the shocks a general tonic. He also lists weekly rates for crutches, reclining chairs, and other medical appliances.
Hartford Post reports nearly all major Meriden factories now burn crude petroleum instead of coal for engine fuel. An agent for a large Western oil firm toured mills in New London and Montville, seeking buyers for fuel use.
Mrs. Greene demonstrates Scotch broth using neck of mutton, barley and vegetables, plus tips for frying foods in hot fat. The talk at the YWCA covers fat handling, crust patties, fish balls, croquettes and general kitchen economy with recipes and method notes.
A Danbury resident visited a restaurant for a lunch and, penniless, asked to be trusted. The proprietor lent a quarter after rules forbade trust. The customer bought a 15 cent meal, paid the quarter, and kept the 10 cent change, then vanished.
In New Haven Palladium style humor, a young wife photographs her husband posing for a shot. The husband braces for action, silent and focused on a ceiling etching as the timer is read. She then cries out asking if two seconds will be enough for the shot, prompting further comic pause.
The fragment describes an awkward moment as an etching’s answer to the name Will caused embarrassment. A cap was replaced and a stormy interview ensued. The resulting image was debated as resembling a man hurt by a friend or possibly a landscape.
Miss Maynard led a Boston Cooking School class on Wednesday morning February 20 with a demonstration of venison broil halibut a la Creole Turkish pilaf German toast and beignet souffle. Recipes and methods covered maitre d hotel butter tomato sauce with rice and stock methods and notes on cooking times and temperatures. The next lesson on February 27 will cover veal pie sardine eggs devilled scallops raised waffles lemon sauce and peach pie.
A reflective fable laments how some neighbors shun or hurry to punish a pig stuck in a fence while the world sways by wealth and favor. It questions true friendship and calls out how esteem often hinges on dollars and cents rather than worth.
At a Obtuse gathering Brookfield residents played a blind man’s buff variant where a blindfolded catcher names a participant to kiss. After a chase a man identified a young woman, she demanded another kiss, and when he realized it was his wife he protested and ended the game.
A notorious local wit once living in Waterford was spooked by youths who dressed as ghosts and hid in the village cemetery along his drinking path. He leaped away shouting derisively about a vacancy in hell, then staggered off.
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