Around the Farm Their Costs and Pro Forma Accounts for Thinking Farmers
A fragment from the Boston Weekly Globe outlines a pro forma account for ten acres of cabbages, detailing land costs, fertilization, labor, manure, and soil depletion. It cites nitrogen, potash, and phosphoric acid usage, with total crop costs and per ton calculations, highlighting fertilizer and labor economics.
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The
Boston Weekly Globe
St Abe
Ceee Ee
BO Vans
Reese Bor
Tomatoes and Celery Discussion at Massachusetts Horticultural Society
A detailed report of a meeting in which Philbrick argues tomatoes have not gained significant early-season advantage in twenty years while noting improved quality. Discussion covers Paragon Acme Boston Market and other varieties, seed aging, and comparisons to Southern production, plus celery culture, spacing, soil, manuring, and earthing up for quality yield.
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Philbrick
Boston
Siateurs
New England
Cihein- Mall
West
New York
Henderson
Arlington
Marshall P. Wilder
D Sandrinn
Mc Brick
W. W. Ranson
Rome
Canada
Victor
Alpha
George Hill
C. M. Hovey
Livingston
Grant
Emery
Garfield
Samuel Hartwell
Boston Market
Acme
White
England
Hill
Mr. Hovey
Talbot
Wilner
General Grant
R. Wilder
Salem
W. D. Philbrick
January Garden Notes on Mushroom and Sea Kale Cultivation
The January gardening note emphasizes winter prep for next year, detailing manure hauling, hotbeds, tool painting, and the rise of winter mushroom culture. It explains bed construction, sterilization, and spawning from French and English sources, with yields and market demand cited as rising. It also mentions sea kale as a hardy cabbage relative, bleached sprouts, and forcing methods, noting limited American introduction.
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Covent Garden
London
W. D. Philbrick
New England
Hop Boom in Central New York Hop Region
In central New York Otsego Oneida Madison Schoharie and Montgomery counties the hop trade drives local wealth. Prices reach fifty cents to a dollar per pound with fortunes claimed by residents, farms rising in value, and buyers eager for next year though some warn that the boom may fade as older yards are cleared and new plantings begin.
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Canada
Utica
Waterville
Oneida
Cooperstown
Oneonta
United States
England
Germany
New York
Otsego
Madison
Schoharie
Montgomery
Sangerfield
Kirkland
Marshall
Augusta
London
New York State
The Poultry Yard and Turkey Farming Practices
The article describes spring egg-laying, incubation, and care of young turkeys, noting their rapid growth and gregarious, flocking behavior. It explains pre Thanksgiving feeding, transport to markets, and the operation of Turkey pens led by Oscar A. Gilman, detailing weighing, pricing, and slaughter procedures in Kentucky facilities.
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Turkey
Bronze Battalion
Feo
Kentucky
Oscar A. Gilman
Paris
Flemingsburg
Boston
New York
Florida orange culture profits and failures analyzed
The article contrasts high and low outcomes in Florida orange farming noting many natives fail due to poor management while some Northern and Southern producers profit. It covers tree yields, shipment practices to New York Boston and Chicago, pricing, branding, and the influence of transport costs on markets. It also warns against overreliance on luck and highlights branded select fruit as a pathway to steady returns.
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Gilman
New York
Boston
Florida
Chicago
New England
Arthur's Home Magazine
American Dairyman
American Poultry Journal
Atlantic Monntaly
American Art Journal
American Garden
Amerian Naturalist
American Agriculturist
Manuels
Army & Navy Journal
British Quarterly Review
Blackwood's
Brainerd
Beadle’s
Saturday Journal
Burlington Hawkeye
Boys of New York
Hasloy’s Magazine
Pep Keeper
Baby Lands Vreece
Boston Medical Journal
Boston Medical and Bureto Journal
Cassell
Christian Leader
Century Magazine
Connecticut Farmer
Chicago Advance
Chicago Weekly News
Christian Herald
C.ceeeee
Courter-Journal
Demorest’s
Donahos's
Aesnes
Teint
Png Free Press
Neering and Mining Vournals
Wctic Mapurt
Forney
Frank Leslie
Clainney Corner
Wkly
Fireside Companion
Forest and Stream
Germantown Televia Green's Fruit Recorder
Gardener's Monthly
Godey's Lady’s
Hworld
Ee Flousehold
Ceerse
Eesseeseenee Household Journal
Eeceees
Harper’s Magazine
Harper's Weekly
Harper's Bazar
Harper's Young Peoples
Ea Seercess Herald of Health
Home and Bien Tacsae Sassents Vessieerey Touschuld
Eces Flouse Eeper
London Lancet
London
Edinburgh Re
London Quarterly
Revie Manufacturer
Inilde Methodist
American History
Mining Record
Mother's Magazine
Saxe American Review
N.Y
Medical Journal
N. Y. Feshion Eee
Nupsofv
Ose
N. Y
Weeikly
Philadelphia
Metical Times
Pracical Farm Rideout
Saturday Evening Post
Seientific America
Aseee Mcwith
Wasasen Remy
Nita Piasens
San Francisco
Watchman
Weetern
GLOBE
The Horse Blinders Question From Professor Bartholomew
Professor Bartholomew argues against blinders after recalling early bias and experiments with a pony. He contends blinders hinder a horse’s perception and caused fear, recommending gradual desensitization by exposing the animal to harness and vehicle. He urges abandoning blinders for better behavior and performance. Salt is advised and horses should cool off after drives.
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Bartholomew
Globe
Windsor Theatre
What Farmers Should Know About Pits and Calves
Instructions on peach pit storage and spring planting, cherry pits, and ensuring sound seed. Cow calving guidance covers diet, withholding grain, and laxatives to prevent complications. Flat culture versus hilling for potatoes is tested by a neighbor comparison, showing higher yield with flat culture. Incubation periods for birds and embryo development details follow, alongside ensilage benefits and water content in feed.
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Turkey
Henry FE
Alvord
New London Theatrical Banter and Bar Etiquette
A chatty drummer praising New London notes locals invite strangers to drink with a pantomime. He describes barroom customs with a salty-habituated town image and ends by mentioning Ayer's Hair Vigor as a remedy for gray hair.
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Ayer
Cause for apprehension in mysterious illnesses warned
A medical expert warns that unseen diseases can begin with vague pains fatigue and appetite changes and stresses the danger of false reassurance. The article notes how swift undetected progression increases risk and urges vigilance and early examination. The piece cites a prominent physician with unusual opportunities for study to underscore the message.
Treating acute nephritis and Bright's disease in a 19th century clinic
Dr. O Anderson of Cincinnati discusses acute nephritis as an early form of Bright's disease, detailing a 24 year old fireman case treated with Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. He argues the disease often lacks clear back pain, outlines symptoms from lumbar pain to urinary changes, and urges colleagues to overcome prejudice against proprietary medicines while praising the remedy's success.
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Messrs
Light Pearce Fle
Warner
Bright
Cheireman
Anderson
M. D
Revenged Upon a Comstocker in Virginia Chronicle
A well dressed man confronts a Comstockery exchange objector on C street this forenoon, accusing him of fraud and lies. The yellow sack coat man retorts naming him a fraud, then declares he is off the speaker's exchange list. The latter staggers to a saloon, slowly recovering.
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Comstocker
Virginia Chronicle
C Street
Wonderful Improvement Reported From Compound Oxygen
A Coal City Penn man with early consumption and night sweats reports via letter dated August 22 that he is wonderfully improved. He gained flesh and strength and his lungs show development, walking home last Saturday without coughing since March. Free information on Compound Oxygen and case reports offered by Drs Starkey and Palmer at 1109 and 1111 Girard Street Philadelphia.
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Coal City
Penn
Drs. Starkey & Palenn
Girard Street
Philadelphia
Louis Blancs Last Gift to His Nurse Revealed
The secretary to the late Louis Blanc describes the final illness and delirium before death. He reports Blanc urged giving his nurse 2000 francs from his pocket for her care, the nurse refused, and Blanc drew up a deed dated September 4 1878. The doctor witnessed the exchange as the nurse received the money.
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Louis Blanc
Consumption Cured by Simple Vegetable Remedy
An elderly physician, retired, received a formula from an East India missionary for a vegetable cure for consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and related lung ailments and nervous debility. He offers to send the recipe free of charge in German French or English with full instructions to any who request by mail with stamp to A NOYES 149 Power's Block Rochester NY.
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East India
A. Noyes
Power's Block
Rochester
N. Y
How to Dress a Duck in a New London Tale
A satirical notice from the New London Telegram mocks fancy dress by detailing how to “dress” a duck in sealskin, velvet bonnet, and jewelry. It promotes a job ad by the V. E. A. at 19 Winter Street offering twenty girls for general house work and a call after 10 A M.
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New London Telegram
Telegram
V.E. A
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