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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1882
Page
2
Long agricultural column details best practices for growing Hungarian grass and curing hay on poor and rich meadows. It covers ploughing, seed timing, fertilizer, and methodical steps to harvest, cure, and store hay for dairy farms. It cites yields, weights, and farm experiences, and argues for early bloom cutting.
A historical guide outlines tanning with clay ditches and modern vats, using molasses casks, quick lime, manure, hemlock or oak bark, and sumach leaves. It warns against iron, notes airings and strength tests, and covers recipes with vitriol for straps, gloves, and fur processing, including grease removal guidance.
A rural journal argues against barn cellars for pigs citing air, light, and disease concerns. It stresses pigs need clean air and sunshine, warns of health decline from dark, damp spaces, and links unhealthy animals to poorer meat and household health. The piece includes bee-keeping tips on queen rearing and a novel hive procedure.
Practical guidance on swarm hiving methods including using wired frames, swarming boxes, and handling swarms from limbs. Also features a detailed account of Swiss cattle as a hardy New England dairy and beef stock, highlighting adaptability, milking qualities, and historic importations into Massachusetts with notable breeders and regional impact.
The author argues weeds enrich soil and support animal life by adding fertility beyond chemical fertilizers. He regards weeds as allies in the cycle from rock to food, citing ragweed and sorrel as beneficial to cattle and appetite. He recalls feeding sorrel to a sick cow, which eagerly ate it and encouraged appetite for other hay.
The article urges timely cultivation to control weeds, noting cows favor sorrel hay and other weeds. It describes DIY tools and methods to remove dock and roots, advocates wider row spacing to save labor, and compares farming skill to a game, stressing pleasure in well done work and the need for prompt, repeated cultivation to protect crop yields.
The Twenty-ninth Massachusetts reunion in Pawtucket featured East Freetown veteran Charles G. Bosworth who was shot at the Burnside mine explosion. Labeled mortally wounded, he refused death, demanded dressings, cursed the surgeons, and forced an operation, yet he survived.
A Dover woman returned from Washington with a novelty rabbit made entirely from boiled down mutilated government currency pulp. The $2000 value piece, molded into animal form, is owned by a prominent Dover professional man.
A Providence woman writes that many Rhode Island girls are good cooks and notes she has a daughter who could step into the kitchen and prepare a first class dinner for fifty if a cook left Her city has one great satisfaction her cook will never leave while a ready replacement exists in her family.
Promises to remove dry scales and tenderness on the scalp within six days. Classified as a head-pressing remedy sold by druggists for one dollar per package.
Amateur gardeners may face a tough weed season with stable compost raising weed growth. The article details weed control via soil edging with stones, careful transplanting techniques, watering routines, and plant health. It covers fertilizers, house plants, window gardens, pest control, budding roses, single dahlias, slug management, and pruning for plant form.
A reader notes that transplanted trees show vulnerability in hot dry weather if roots are not active and offers measures such as pruning, watering, shading, and trunk wrapping. Also shared is a slug control method using bran bait and breaking slate to lift baited sections for easy collection.
William H. Reed near Freehold reports a large tooth found while draining a meadow. Dr. Samuel Lockwood identifies it as a mastodon molar and excavations reveal tusks and a nearly intact skull amid a porous, honeycombed bone structure. The site suggests ancient animal remains and potential coast changes in New Jersey.
In a Providence Journal correspondence a Cherokee woman named Miss Fagle Brown is described as a striking beauty among natives. The portrait notes her neat dress, hair twisted over a bold brow, and a radiant grave look full of life and passion, highlighting intermixture with white ancestry and her ful-blood Cherokee heritage.
Taunton Gazette laments a miserly man from New Haven who bought a knife for twenty two cents in 1829, traded knives with a schoolmate, saved fifteen dollars, and now has over five hundred in the bank. The piece questions his happiness, the value of his life, and mocks a prayer meeting praise for cheap gospel.
A Philadelphia Record correspondent relates that a New York editor learned a day or two before Garfield’s death that the elaborate metallic casket ordered for the president’s burial was placed that day. He deemed it newsworthy but withheld it, fearing readers might find the detail ghoulish.
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