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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1889
Page
3
The article outlines plant elements carbon to manganese, sources from air, rain, and soil, and details mineral cycles. It explains rock weathering to soils, crop rotation, lime’s role, manure substitutes, soil fertility restoration, and plant chemical processes from germination to ripening, including the transformation of starch to sugar and the carbon and nitrogen cycles.
The text explains how plant decay releases carbon as carbonic acid and hydrogen as water, with nitrogen forming ammonia. Mineral residues wash into soil as rain. Moist wood becomes humus, a main part of soil organic matter. Alkalies dissolve it and acids yield brown precipitates whose acids are doubtful. crenic and aprocrenic acids occur in mineral waters.
W R Davie reports from Rome Georgia a startling claim about cattle fed only cottonseed hulls and water producing fat cattle and high milk yields. He cites Towers Sullivan enclosures with 70 oxen thriving on hulls, and anecdotes of cows increasing milk from four to eight quarts daily at low cost, plus seven milch cows fattening on hulls, suggesting vast potential for cotton regions in cattle, dairy, and beef.
A farmer shares observations on peppers potatoes parsnips and carrots thinning for size. Gandy and Eureka berries from Cleveland Nursery praised. early peas for seed. advice on weeds insects and liquid manure for eggplants celery and asparagus. encouragement to pursue gardening despite busy season.
A varied horticultural column lists treatments for currant worms cabbage flea beetles and squash bugs including lime dust paris green kerosene emulsion and hand removal. It covers drowning weevils in water soaked pea seeds and cautions on poison handling plus guidance on thinning fruit improving sales and restoring unhealthy potted plants with drainage and watering checks.
Advice on potting and overwintering flowering plants. For potted plants choose a larger pot, firm the soil, water well, and keep in partial shade until established. Delphiniums and dianthus are highlighted. sow dianthus now for next year and sow delphiniums early as seed loses vitality quickly.
Thomas Shaw argues green fodder boosts farm output and soil fertility amid Ontario climate. The piece lists advantages such as reduced land needs, fences, and improved manure, milk, and beef, plus crops suited to Ontario conditions and practical nitrate handling and mixing tips for farmers.
A Syracuse reader outlines buying a good breeding mare and breeding a Cleveland Bay colt next autumn to lift mortgage costs. He favors Percheron crosses, warns on horse care, and cites King Thomas a yearling selling for 38,000 as proof of high value in thoroughbreds.
The main source is Iquique Chile with export duty of 10 dollars per ton. Nitrate beds stretch 200 to 300 miles along South America. Two grades exist: a nearly pure grade for chemical use and blasting powder, and a cheaper 4 to 6 percent impurity grade for manure. The cheaper grade is rarely imported here due to limited fertilizer use. Europe imports the cheaper grade for sugar beets, grinding it fine for farmers.
The writer urges farmers to discard threshing oat straw for feed and instead store oats and straw in vermin-proof bays or stacks. He argues that sheaf cats make a nearly perfect food when moistened and mixed with meal or bran, and that time saved from threshing could fund vacations or farm visits to learn better methods.
Practical instruction from Husbandman on cabbage prep and planting. It covers heavy manuring, soil preparation, fertilizer amounts, seedling handling in damp boxes, careful transplanting after 4 pm, and early field cultivation to keep weeds down.
The Prairie Farmer recommends using bisulphide or carbon to destroy burrowing animals and insects. A volatile yellow liquid is poured through a tube into the burrow and the hole is covered to smother animals as vapors fill the tunnel. Caution is urged as vapors are highly inflammable and can explode near flames.
Practical notes on feeding cows with clover not wasted milk purity, plus crossbreeding Jerseys with Ayrshires for hardiness. Guidance on butter packing, egg storage in salt, and storage of garlic eggs. Methods to prevent early frosts on buckwheat, clover in corn, and chinch bug defense. Emphasis on lime and mineral manures to restore fruit trees and soils, with cautions about soil analysis and regional plant adaptation.
Readable notes cover planting timings for cauliflowers celery cucumbers and endive plus crop cycles for turnips and strawberries. It notes fruiting year patterns in trees, methods to induce fruitfulness, silage feeding benefits from fodder corn, beef scraps for broilers, and practical tips on tomatoes, cabbage, radish seed, and potato ground. Mentions experiments in Connecticut and Wisconsin and a fertilizer trade update in Mercer county.
In verses by J. C. Dodge a Detroit Free Press poem laments the toil of gardening. The speaker recalls buying seeds and tools, facing floods droughts pests and insects, failing harvests yet winning a boastful weed prize. He offers to sell his garden at a low price.
On a Delaware ferryboat a calm man repeatedly handles a life preserver, provoking alarm and speculation among passengers. He then wears it briefly, questions the crowd, and explains his plan to test whether any of the fifty aboard know how to properly don the device.
A publisher favors a little known but wildly successful subscription book writer who never uses a pen. He dictates manuscripts, rarely appears in broader literary circles, yet his books consistently sell at least 100000 copies.
The speaker contrasts a busy craftsman who makes books by paste with self-proclaimed authors. The man blends inevitability with practicality, preferring swift output over fame, and earns more money than many writers while denying authorship. He finishes a 700 page science volume in ten days because other projects claim priority.
The American Automatic Water Supply Company installed fixed public water coolers in Philadelphia sites. Patrons drop a penny or nickel to receive a glass of cold water from the Hygeia spring, Waukesha, Wisconsin. The six foot high coolers hold about 26 gallons each and do not provide change when using a nickel.
The Washington Post essay neutralizes the trend of fashionable mourning, detailing how texture, cut, and etiquette govern the dress and behavior of mourners. It argues that many adhere to mourning as a social currency, with widows at the center of the industry, while genuine grief is obscured by style rules and advertisements.
The Washington Post notes the New Congressional Library will be the world’s largest library building upon completion. Designed by Paul J. Pelz in Italian renaissance style, it uses light granite exterior with brick fireproof interior, costing up to 6 million dollars and housing up to 4,000,000 volumes with 1.5 million initially planned.
Guidance on lamp maintenance including trimming wick straightening lamps before lighting, wiping away charred wick on livery day, cleaning chimneys weekly, washing with hot water and ammonia or washing soda, drying and polishing, and never overfilling a lamp to leave air space to prevent explosions.
A Chicago Herald item notes a husband cut out a paragraph and his wife hunted a second copy to learn what was removed. The piece wryly calls this woman’s curiosity and suggests any man who cuts out the paragraph will prompt his wife to buy another edition to see what the scissors did.
In Jewelers' Weekly a reader observes a well dressed man with an unusual emblem on his scarf exiting a Maiden Lane shop. The clerk identifies him as the proprietor, while the porter is noted as a tall youth.
A copy of the large $150,000,000 mortgage dated May 1 from the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Company to the United States Trust Company of New York was filed for record yesterday in the county recorder's office. The pamphlet edition runs about 40 pages.
Columbus newspaper notes John G. Gantt a famed tramp printer, age 70, who has wandered the country on travels since the Civil War. The report recalls his longest trek in 1884 when he toured the Star Between there and Fiveida and back.
An elderly printer, aged 65, logged every mile of a 2300 mile journey with careful records. Despite heavy drinking, his mental faculties remain sharp and he collects information he spots along the way. He recently launched Gantt's Typographical Tourist published on the road with notes on the craft, and he recently reached Cassopooh completing the same route in six months.
The Indianapolis Journal recounts a curious Lincoln memoir with a letter beginning My dear Mary. The missive asks for a conditional engagement, declaring a desire to a future acquaintance only if it adds happiness and offers to rescue or bind the woman if desired. The piece calls the letter perhaps the oddest marriage proposal in record, noting its paradoxical tone and lack of explicit affection.
The Philadelphia Record notes 1888 state statistics on marriage ages in Pennsylvania. Men average 27, women 25. 13 percent of husbands wed older wives, 7 percent wed same age, 80 percent wed younger wives. Youngest wives include a 13 year old. oldest 71. Among 14,720 wives with ages given, 27.5 percent were under 20. The report details age patterns, notable couples with large age gaps, divorces, and cross-state marital flows.
An Atlanta Constitution reminiscence quotes an veteran railroad engineer about three kinds of trains to avoid pay trains excursion trains and officers trains. He cites dangers delays and discipline concerns noting how wages fears and authority shape running speeds and who can ride.
Paris cabmen form a proud, independent guild, each deeming his liberty proof of superiority over other drivers. A street cabman scorns omnibus, tramcar, and liveried coachmen, judging them as lacking self respect, while comparing rivals with disdain and sharp, biting wit.
In Celestial City a young coal mine owner Mr Chestnut plans to visit the elderly Mr Hemricks to discuss business, as a concerned daughter hints at a potential stock purchase. The scene underscores social etiquette and hinted affairs surrounding industrial wealth.
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