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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1892
Page
6
Andrew H. Ward invites readers to write on farming topics and to hear his free lectures in New England. The Globe commends his practical approach and notes a reader’s 10 000 copies of his phosphate article printed for free distribution.
A Boston Weekly Globe excerpt explains how soluble and mineral phosphates, bones, and ashes improve soil fertility. It notes that finely ground minerals allow higher phosphate application at lower cost than superphosphates, and describes a layered decomposition method using lime and soda ash to make phosphates soluble.
A farmer asks about pasture patches that produce tall dark grass after cows graze. He wonders about the urine composition causing the growth, whether dressing an acre similarly would cost, and if entire fields could be treated to boost hay with Bowker's tail and drill for corn and potatoes.
An 8009 pound annual cow urine yield could supply 46.4 pounds nitrogen 114.2 pounds potash and 51.2 pounds soda. A fertilizer mix using nitrate of soda muriate of potash and phosphate rock could double pasture value with half an acre, then adapt for potatoes and corn with adjusted nitrate amounts.
The article explains manure strengthens soil structure both physically and chemically. It notes manure adds stability to light soils and improves moisture absorption, while loosening tenacious clays to allow better water and air movement, boosting fertility.
The Spaniards first brought horses to America from Barb stock linked to Arabians, breeding on vast plains where many became wild. French and later European breeds strengthened the stock for work, with ponies emerging as cost effective. Messenger and Mambrino influenced improvement, pace increasing from three to about two and a quarter minutes per mile. Large European breeds now dominate heavy farm work and mining, bred with native mares for strong, versatile progeny. Agriculistus.
The article argues that drains should not be buried too shallowly as deeper drains expand surface area, lower water tables, and support root growth. It notes deep draining makes soil hold more moisture without saturation, reduces frost impact, and strengthens future drainage. Also covered are grapevines, fruit garden planning, fertilizing with potash and phosphoric acid, fall potash applications, and seed/soil cautions for diseases and mice.
Practical experience shows shallow underdrains fail after a few years as frost drives soil into joints. Three-foot drains often clog from pulverized loam. four-foot depths better tap springs and support crops like orchards and clover. Wet lands require thorough drainage to permit reliable crop growth.
Advice on separating flocks and choosing breeding birds for March or April hatching. Emphasizes true markings, good form, shell and yolk quality, and avoiding deformed chicks. Recommends pairing old hens with young cocks, moderate exercise, and delaying laying. notes incubator use and market broiler aims require careful stock and feeding. warns against hens from stressed flocks.
The article outlines several bone reduction methods for farmers. It recommends sulphuric acid when safety allows to retain ammonia, but notes corrosion risk. For home use, burning bones or layering with horse manure works best. Other options include soaking old bones then layering with manure, or layering with unleached wood ashes in a hogshead. Spring is the advised season to perform the process.
The Alabama State Grange backs equal college opportunities for women and champions reforms like Australian ballot and direct senatorial election. The piece praises the Grange as a noble, widespread force with long term benefits and recalls its guiding motto equal rights to all.
A Granger Bulletin excerpt uses parable language on sowing and toil. It urges careful soil work and diligence to reap a rich harvest, warning against sowing discord and highlighting the need to prepare for emergencies.
Morning fowls receive a warm breakfast prepared the previous evening. Cut clover hay, add cornmeal and bran, scald, steep overnight, then mix warm and feed. Offer wheat at dinner, provide exercise, finish with whole corn at night. Twice weekly switch to warm mash of potatoes turnips beef scraps pork cracklings plus cornmeal and wheat.
A reader asks if culled potatoes can be fed to cows. PROf STEWART recommends limited raw or grated potatoes mixed with cut clover hay, bran, and cottonseed meal, noting cooking increases fattening value while raw forms aid digestion in small amounts.
An old garden note extols onions as valuable vegetables and health aids. It highlights their culinary value and claims onion poultices help croup and earache, roasted onion in the ear relieves ear pain, and a onion vinegar molasses cough syrup eases coughs and hoarseness. It also mentions onions as blood purifiers and complexion enhancers.
Instructions from Indiana Farmer detail cheese making with a 10 inch cheese hoop a follower new washtub and a press using fresh cow milk and cloth strain. steps cover warming tempering to 83F adding prepared rennet cutting curd heating whey to 98F crumbly curd drying salting bandaging pressing turning and daily buttered rubs until six to eight weeks for curing.
Prof Atwater of the Connecticut Experiment Station discusses cottonseed as a valuable fertilizer and feed for the South. The text cites analyses of cotton plant parts, notes varying chemist conclusions, and includes estimated values for manure and related feeds from cotton seed and other crops.
Peat is gathered as a traditional fuel in parts of Ireland and Scotland. The article outlines the methods used by locals to dig and dry peat, the transportation to homes, and its role as a domestic energy source in rural communities.
The article explains Irish peat cutting from surface swarths to build long stacks of rectangular blocks cut with a slane. It notes drying, turning, and stacking, praising cleanliness and describing drying, lower layers, and methods to improve fuel quality. It also discusses peat’s limited industrial use due to low heating power and attempts to compress peat to remove water.
Rural New Yorker discusses milk as a complete food and breaks down the composition of milk cream butter skimmed milk and buttermilk. It notes digestibility fat sugar protein minerals and how processing affects nutritive value for calves adults and patients with digestion issues.
The article reports J H Andre of the New York Tribune asserting skunks destroy honey bee colonies by raiding hives at night, with evidence of flattened hive fronts and distressed bees. It also discusses using late autumn or winter litter burning to control weeds, insects, and provide ash potash, plus horticultural observations from Rocheste r and Wayne County about orchard crops and ploughing drawbacks.
A reader panel discusses snow as manure being of little value and urges focusing on nitrogen supply from rain. It covers oats for pigs, range for swine, breeding and bee robbing issues, cottonseed meal effects on manure, winter stock growth, beet feeding, buckwheat yields, oat smut remedies, road drainage, stone cracking, and fowl processing methods.
James Shaw describes a lifelong condition with a normal right eye and a short sighted left eye. He notes differing color perception and depth cues, requiring close inspection with the left eye for smaller print. He tests schoolchildren, finding a quarter unable to pair eye use, suggesting late recognition of monocular blindness in some cases.
At a Philadelphia dinner Archbishop Ryan and Wayne MacVeagh clashed over travel passes. MacVeagh offered an exchange for travel passes on the Pennsylvania Road, while the archbishop quipped he has no interest in roads MacVeagh favors.
A Detroit observer recalls a novelty in souvenir spoons shown in Washington last week. The drummer describes silver or gold spoons with a flat handle showing the grand old flag, a corkscrew stem, and a sugar lamp bowl, but no orders are placed.
A chess problem by H. B. Washburn lists piece placements with White to move and secure victory. It notes black men on squares 1 4 5 6 9 12 17 18 and kings on 15 28, with White men on 7 10 11 18 19 22 24 26 27 and king on 8. The sequence ae 19.26 3.13 15,18 15.18 18.26 6.7 6.16 16 19 22.26 19.16 12.19 13. 6 5. 9 27.24 28.19 8.3 1.10 13-48 W. wins.
In position No 1622 by Brockton Mass expert GLOBE editor The Aree shows an improvement on the 37 move solution by W ID McCaughel. Amateurs welcome. Black.
Readers and correspondents are thanked for news items and favors. Letters mention A Mathews E Percival Rathbon Murray Young Clute Bryan Washburn He Fson Rennie rover and others. Messages indicate distribution of Globe copies and guidance on requests and problems presented.
J G Lewis comes back to England following a five month stay in the United States. The item notes game numbers from two different series, listing the Evening Lamp count as 441 for December 12 and Tom Grose count as 2768.
Nov 24 itemized notes on corrections and recoveries, plus chess news from the era. Mentions Anderson and Denvir, the Reporter, and a Boston London clash. Highlights include the American Checker Review under new management, a January issue with champions and engravings, and Haverhill aiming for intercity matches with Lowell Lawrence and others.
Manufacturers in Chicago and New York state raise broom prices by up to $1 a dozen citing broom corn shortages. Dealers report 6 cent to $1 increases across grades while noting prior overproduction and heavy rains reduced supply. Experts cite a coordinated push to raise costs and fear a shift to cheaper inferior brooms.
Oliver Ditson and Co publish three select songs titled Album Songs with Lamentation and The Secret among others. White Smith & Co unveil new songs by A A White including My Mother's Song Zerita and Medley Quartet. Mrs Hels yett Waltzes from Audran are arranged by Davidson priced accordingly.
The employer confronts a young clerk who admits to being intoxicated on a Sunday night in town. The exchange reveals concern about behavior on Sundays and clerical conduct. The scene centers on accountability and social norms in the town.
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