Around the Farm Assorting tobacco and farm notes 1884
The article urges careful tobacco assorting and packing for market, detailing proper bundling, stacking, air exposure, and moisture control to secure better prices. It warns against adulteration, cites dealer sharpness, and notes regional sales in New England. It also covers poultry, walnut trees, pruning seasons, feeding, butter packing, corn as fuel, and snow’s protection of clover, with dated 1884 notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Housatonic Valley
Plymouth Rocks
Graves
Texas
A. S. Fuller
British Dairy Farmers’ Association
Brittany
England
London
Nebraska
Practical farming notes urge trimming orchards and diversified plantings
The piece urges reducing orchard size to improve care and profits, advocating harvest discipline, careful packing, and selling through informed vendors. It suggests burning dead trees for firewood, replanting with varied fruit and berries, and using space for strawberries or raspberries. It also discusses buckthorn hedges, corn and fertilizer experiments, and winter poetry as a hobby.
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Europe
Asia
Experienceiacksmith
Boston
Charles C. Elling
Edmund Hersey
Stockbridge
Daniel Needham
Bereich
Practical Dairy Dairy Farming Practices from H B Gurler
Mr. H B Gurler details his shift to dairying starting with twenty cows in 1869 and evolving to winter dairying. He notes costs, yields, and methods for testing cows, selecting productive stock, and feeding. He emphasizes early-cut hay, proper winter care, and using beef offcuts for profit, with increasing butter yield from 150 to 266 pounds per cow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. B. Gurler
Ilinois Dairymen’s Association
Asture
Bam
Practical dairy farming tips from the Live Stock Journal
A dairy guidance piece discusses factors affecting cow yield including feed day cuts and water handling. It emphasizes fresh water without ice, avoiding expensive corn for warming water, and daily salt. Suggestions cover factory versus farm cream, pig feeding with skim milk, milking in barn year round, breeding with thoroughbred males, and testing cow production to improve profits.
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Elgin
Live Stock Journal
Breeding heavy Shire horses by E Coke at Kingscote meeting
Hon E Coke shares his Shire horse breeding paper with the Kingscote Agricultural Association. He urges sound mares with strong lineage, correct fore and hind feet, long pasterns and well developed limbs. He emphasizes choosing stallions to improve faults, breeding weighty stock, and notes rising demand for heavy horses in Britain and America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Coke
Kingscote Agricultural Association
America
England
Liverpool
Manchester
New York
Prairile Farmer
More Concerning Small Fruits Profit from Tiny Farms
The piece argues farmers should study small fruit systems to profit from fewer acres. Strawberries lead, with raspberries and blackberries also profitable near cities. It cites Rochester yields over $100 per acre and forecasts ascendant returns from raspberries, with red and black varieties listed and notes on site quality and disease risks.
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Rochester
N. Y
Cincinnati
Highlang Haray
Turner and Thwack
Doolittle
Mammoth Cluster
Gregg
Ohio
Onmer
Dayton
Kittatinny Red Raspberry Prospects In Market and Home Use
The article notes Kittatinny plants fruit heavily with six by six foot spacing implying over 300 bushels per acre if bearing. It compares Early Harvest and Snyder, cites N Albaugh of Montgomery County praising Taylor's Prolific, and argues raspberries offer hygienic value and potential profit. It mentions drying surplus fruit via evaporators to extend marketability and notes general market dynamics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor
Rocheily
Kittutinuy Growere
Low Growing Trees for Orchard and Field Mix
A rural essay urges farmers to keep fruit trees low and strong, avoid axing branches, and mulch soil between rows. It compares two orchards, one cut high for corn, the other left to grow with low limbs. the latter thrived and bore fruit sooner. Emphasizes pruning downward, mulching, and growing low crops or nothing else on bearing land.
December report shows smaller yield than October returns
The December Department of Agriculture report notes a yield below October returns with October averaging 74 and December around 68. Compared with 1883, 1882, and 1881, yields vary across states, with the West notably lower. Projections for 1883 suggest total production near 4.7 million bales, but figures are provisional and may adjust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Alabama
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Arkansas
Tennesser
Seed potato planting methods tested by Professor Sanborn
Professor Sanborn of the Missouri Agricultural College reports nine years of potato seeding experiments. He presents yields per acre for seven years across methods using large seed, small seed, stem end, seed end, and various eye-to-hill counts, with values at fifty cents per bushel. He cautions that light seeding or using stall potatoes under ordinary soil and fertility yields poor results, as seedlings must rely on seed until leaves appear.
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Sanborn
Missouri Agricultural College
New England
Apple Freezing
The piece dispels the belief that frozen apples are worthless. It explains how to handle barrels, avoid touching frozen fruit, and keep apples undisturbed until frost is out. Under proper conditions apples can freeze and thaw multiple times with limited damage, and some kept from December thaw by spring with minimal loss.
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Baldwins
Storage of Apples Across Seasons in Rhode Island
A Ploughman notes apples split by season. Mare ripens early spring, January fruit is firm but subject to thaw. Freezing in autumn with controlled 80 degrees could preserve Rhode Island Greening into spring, avoiding decay and two months of quality loss after thawing.
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Rhode Island
Keeping Up the Flow of Milk
Advice argues cows should be milked year round with ample feed to sustain production. It warns that long dry periods after calving reduce future milk yield, especially in heifers, and favors continuous milking over resting periods to maximize output and efficiency.
Fertilizer views warn against overreliance on phosphates
F D Curtis argues land lacking vegetable matter cannot retain moisture. He criticizes expensive phosphate systems and urges increasing soil organic matter instead. He contends commercial fertilizers only help with barnyard manure and warns many farmers waste money chasing chemical substitutes.
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D, Curtis
Calf Care For Severe Cold Wave Advisory
A Prairie Farmer excerpt warns that extreme cold stresses calves kept autumn drop. Shelter pens with dry earth floors and sloped batten floors, tight quarters, abundant dry straw, and liberal warm feed are advised. Regular bedding changes and two daily warm meals help calves thrive by spring and grow strongly on spring grass.
How to Start a Poor Foal This Winter
Guidance from the Live Stock Journal on reviving a fall foal with poor appetite. Begin with small amounts of new milk, then gradually mix into middlings, progress to skim milk and later sour milk. Use boiled flaxseed for constipation, limit to bowel-cleansing doses, and consider twenty pounds daily of skirin inguk style feed as economical.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Live Stock Journal
Water cress easy to grow near open springs
Practical guide notes water cress thrives with an open spring and swampy border. Plant pieces with roots along borders to spread naturally, providing a steady supply for family meals or market sale without costly setups.
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Lumostaoy
Fisi-Pond
A Cheap House for Fifty Hens
Practical plans describe a 16 by 16 foot or 12 by 20 foot hen house built with common one inch boards. The design uses north sun from large south windows, tarred felt to seal, horizontal roosts on the north wall, nesting boxes on the south, coal ash floors, weekly fresh litter, a slanted ladder to arches, and a roof ventilator extending inside near the door.
Air quality and hoop house economics for poultry
The text argues for maintaining warm air while venting to keep the air clean without roof-level drafts. It suggests a house need not use planed lumber, and forecasts that with such a design and fifty hens, net profit could double in the first winter.
Managing Bees Lessons From A Practical Beekeeper
A bee publications correspondent shares practical methods for profitable beekeeping in a cold May climate with a light honey crop. He favors late spring brood expansion, division swarming, mixed hive types, foundation use, selective feeding, pure Italians, and careful wintering with stored pollen, top-box transfers, and controlled entrances. The account notes varied drone usage and experimental feeding, stressing bloom study and readiness for nectar flow.
Best Time For Pigs To Breed And Raise For Profit
Farmers find it most economical to breed sows in late December for March litters and fatten pigs through the next winter. Select brood sows and males carefully from strong, thrifty lines, avoid very young sows, provide dry warm quarters, clean housing, and a varied diet. Limit corn, ensure ample water, and separate sows from horses and cows to improve pig quality.
Lower food prices mark era of cheap living say experts
A long analysis notes declining prices for staple foods over 15 years due to better crops lower transport and labor costs. It cites beet sugar production advances and cheaper tea and coffee, plus speculative swings yet sees effective producers undercutting costs. It urges stocking up as price cycles suggest future rebounds.
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West
Atlantic
A Bit of Truth Spoken in Jest
A CN New York Sun snip quotes a physician asked about business. He says he has all he can attend and claims there is not much sickness, noting that physicians profit mainly from people who are well.
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New York Sun
Just Like Twins on Fifth Avenue Encounter
A slim youth with a pug dog and a chain attachment meets a young lady on Fifth Avenue. He walks beside her to her residence and is invited in. He thanks her awkwardly, insisting the dog won’t matter, while the mother would be glad to see them.
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New York Sun
Fifth Avenue
Suah
The Camel’s Love for the Filthy Weed
The writer expresses suspicion toward camels and fears they will injure or incapacitate soldiers, comparing them to Nile whale boats. He hints at prejudice against camels and notes he is a non-smoker, implying a digression on the topic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dongola
London
Camel’s Pipe Passion Sparks Odd Question From Anti-Tobaccoists
A camel in the stables is described as an inveterate tobacco lover who follows smokers, inhales the fumes, and sighs with ecstasy. The report asks what the Anti-Tobacco League has to say about this plain, corroborated fact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Anti-Tobacco League
How the Horses Saved a Boy This Christmas
A Philadelphia Call report recalls a Sixteenth Street car incident where a sledding boy nearly lay under a streetcar. The horses calmly separated, sparing him, and the driver credited the animals with saving the child’s life before tending to him and his mother.
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Philadelphia
Joe
Sixteenth Street
Berks Street
Wharton Street
Sixteenth
Moses and the Second Two Riddle Mirth
An odd exchange among students features a Japanese visitor asked for his name. The reply frames a punning joke about Moses and “Rowan on Toortacus” as a playful contrast to the question. A sales line promises instant relief from a drugstore.
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Rowan
Wholesale magazine and periodical catalog excerpt
A cluttered list of magazines and journals with prices and note about subscription limits. Mentions many titles such as Harper's, Godey's, Prairie Farmer, London Lancet, Puck, and Rural publications. Includes policy statements on weekly subscriptions and addresses for orders.
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Arthur's Home Magazine
Aeenees American Dairyman
Chicago Advanced
American Poultry Journal
Vecesa
Christian Herald
London Quarterly Review
Portland Transcript
New Names
New Yorker
Wile Awake
Eeeees
American ‘Agriculturise
Army & Navy Journal
American Poultry Yard
British Quarterly Review
Savdees
Blackwood's Magazine
Brainerd
Beadle’s Saturday Journal
Burlington
Hawkeye
Boys of
New York
Ballou’s Magazine
Bee-keeper’s Magazine
Babyland
Boston Pilot
Boston Medical Journal
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
Christian Leader
Century Magazine
Cottage Hearth
Cottage and Farm
Country Gentleman
Connecticut Farmer
Donahoe’s Magazine
Geteasevan
Detroit Free Press
Eeloetic
Fopney’s Progress
Leslie’s Illustrated
Chimney Corner
Germantown Telegraph
Harper's Buzar
Harper’s Young People
Herald of Health
Eeetaee Atlantic Monthly
American Art Journal
American Garden
Courier-Journal
Demorest’s Magazine
Home Journal
Indiana Farmer
International Review
Town Homestead
Journal of Microscopy
Journal of Chemistry
le Francais
Lippincott’s Magazine
Meatloctet
Ecseneees
Mother's Magazine
N. Y. Medical Journal
N. Y. Fashion Bazar
Rsvesseescescen
N. Y. Sportsman
Phrenological Journal
Seegcestser
Isstavesssenens Moo
Princeton Review
Prairie Farmer
Peterson's Lady's Magazin Popular Science Monthly
Philadelphia Medical Times
Late Evening Post
Scien American
St. Nicholas
Sanitarian
San Francisco Chronicle
Spirit of
London Lancet
London
Edinburgh Review
Ohio Farmer
Puck
Practical Farmer
Rideout’s Magazine
Vick’s
Westminster Review
Greteyncare
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Moses
Weekly Globe Club
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