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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1888
Page
2
Instructional piece on proper butter production from milk. Emphasizes cleanliness, milk handling, strainers, storage, and temperature controls. Includes guidance on churn timing, salting, and packaging. Also covers dairy cow nutrition, breeding cadence, and winter feeding for sustained milk yield and butter quality. Cites practices advocated by The Cultivator and Farm Journal principals.
Describes milk handling from cow to churn at the Cheshire Dairy Institute. Milk cooled and separated, cream ripened at 60 F, churned with Bradford's diaphragm at 45 rpm, small batches by hand if needed. Butter washed only lightly, salt added, butterworker drains moisture, three hour rest, then packaging in one pound rolls for shipment to customers. Butter noted as waxy and close in texture with clear color and distantly pure flavor.
The cow is a living mechanism requiring careful management. Overfeeding can wear cows out. abundant, nutritious food is essential, but grains and meal should be limited. Some records show short term boosts from stimulation, yet this harms health. The text argues for balance and proper feeding.
A farmer reviews wintering 12 Jersey cows with calving in April and outlines feed rations and costs. He weighs hay cornstalks straw and corn meal, considers selling hay or buying bran, and discusses appropriate feeds for dry cows to sustain milk flow before calving. The piece cites dairy science guidance on oil meal risks, bran, oats, and heating milk before churning to improve butter yield.
A farmer argues that hand raising calfs is cheaper and kinder than letting them stay with a cow. He details benefits of controlled milk feeding, colostrum use, gradual weaning, and staged introduce of corn, bran, and hay to ensure steady growth and avoid udder problems.
A foreign writer outlines key incubator principles heat near 103 Fahrenheit proper ventilation turning eggs and sufficient moisture. Better models with self regulation keep stable heat using a water heater kerosene or gas heat and trays with water pans model air moisture ventilation and timed turning to mimic a hen nest with a nursery chamber beneath the eggs.
Major M. Jordan of Hamonton New Jersey pioneers large broiler houses using a hot water stove system to heat enclosed boxes for chicks. He raises 1400 chicks every ten weeks in a 24 by 100 foot setup with 14 brooders and incubator housing. Chicks sold in New York Philadelphia and Boston at 25 to 60 cents per pound, about two pounds at ten weeks.
Seasonable hints on bees reflect on the honey season ending as bees huddle in the hive. The article urges learning from mistakes, preparing hives, frames and stores, and planning ahead for next year while noting luck and pastures influence outcomes.
The excerpt discusses readying sections or frames for extracted or comb honey before spring, including nailing and wiring frames, organizing for the honey rush, and maintaining two books. One records mistakes and lessons learned, the other lists needed items to be constructed at leisure to save time in urgent moments.
The writer recalls three adjoining fields in this town yielding over 40 bushels per acre on two seven acre tracts and a three acre field. Clean seed and good soil, plus a favorable 1880 fall sowing and 1881 harvest, produced remarkable grain. Seed cleaning impressed a neighboring farmer who doubted its necessity.
A Country Gentleman reader outlines feeding rations for steers, dairy cows, and young animals using timothy and clover hay, corn fodder, steamed cornstalks, oats, bran, linseed meal, corn meal, and oat straw. The fattening steer mix includes corn fodder, oat straw, corn meal, bran, and linseed meal in a 1 to 5.7 ratio. young stock recipes use corn fodder, straw, oats, bran, and linseed meal in a 1 to 5.2 ratio, adjustable by weight and age.
Practical guide on selecting broom corn seed and preparing it for planting. Emphasizes avoiding red seed, testing seed cleanliness, and proper seed size. Outlines land preparation, drag smoothing, planter choices, and seeding rates with notes on avoiding thin or thick stands to prevent poor quality broom.
Kansas Farmer provides practical advice on planting broom-corn, urging correct seed drop, ground measurement, and seed stand management. Emphasizes seed interval about ten days, warm weather timing, staggered plantings, weed control, and careful cultivation to achieve clean rows and knee-high broom-corn growth.
The author describes a method to construct a durable fence quickly by shaping a quarry ditch, piling earth to form a bank, and arranging a stone wall topped with rails. He argues the approach reduces cost, avoids damaged cedar posts, and suggests stone supports can be sourced locally.
Dr Jenkins of the Connecticut State experiment station compares Paris Green London Purple and White Arsenic for pest control noting arsenic is the active destructive element. The retails costs vary with the finer form Paris Green about 35 cents, London Purple cheaper, White Arsenic more potent and cheaper. The piece urges coloring arsenic to mark danger. It also shares a Wisconsin dairy case showing salt starvation harming milk yield until proper feeding resumed, then profit returned. It stresses wide awake care, regular feeding, water and bedding. It gives practical stock management tips and an experimental dairy comparison with warmed water for cows, feeding changes for eggs and poultry, and hog and orchard care.
Veterinary inspector Paquin warns of malignant pusture from contact with carcasses of animals that died of anthrax. Practical guidance covers safe handling, pruning trees in winter, and feeding strategies. Articles discuss lye as a remedy for hog kidney worms, bull prices, and best sheep breeds for crossbreeding based on soil and pasture.
Ernest McGaffey's Inter Ocean reflection presents a string of maxims on success luck and merit. It argues that the leading horse or the top result often defines victory while effort and reputation matter less without tangible wins.
J R Brown of Havana Illinois and Amanda Walker a Havana teacher wed Christmas Eve eight miles west of town after a secret meeting at a church. A snowbound ride ended with a six foot snow bank and a happy bride and groom. The groom sent a check for his bride to follow as soon as her family reaction cooled.
A hardened inmate objects to a missionary in his cell claiming the man insults his reputation. The warden asks why and the inmate insists the missionary calls him "my ticed man," asserting that those who know him would view him as bad, threatening reputational harm.
A tanner Sandro Ginotti endures heartache as his daughter Lassia vanishes after an engagement with Carlo Guidi. Lina, steady and dutiful, journeys toward Florence with Lassia’s sister to locate her. Lassia returns seeking work, while Guidi wins the Pallio race in the hill city, restoring a flicker of hope amid the family’s trials.
A fox outran hunters from Lincolntown to Birdsboro and, pressed by hounds, dove toward the river. Hunters found a boat drifting downstream with the fox standing on the stern seat, staring back as it loitered in sight.
A fox escapes pursuers causing a comical scene as hunters pursue by river. One hunter finds another boat and follows while the fox swims ashore. The boat slips into the stream after the fox leaps into it, leaving the fox a mile away on land.
A young girl in an easy chair argues social scientists should identify what would make men marry. She says high society and its costs depress marriage, dismisses women’s extravagance, and asserts many industrious men could marry if given opportunity. She notes liberal parental support but would marry with less.
In a playful exchange on the yard, Tom Bigbee proposes a game called mind cure. Jack Plane asks what it is, and Tom explains by joking that a poke in the mouth makes someone pretend it does not hurt.
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