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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1885
Page
2
A detailed rural digest covers plant chemistry and nutrients, cedar pest woes, spruce bud worms, and the Cedar insect threat. It also reviews wheat culture, seeding, threshing, and soil preparation, with advice on early ploughing, seed-bed prep, Hessian fly considerations, and rolling. Includes letters to the editor on cedar tree pests and farming routines.
Correspondents discuss spring and winter wheat harvest timing and methods. Shifts from cradle cuts to machinery affect when wheat should be cut, drying in shocks, and whether ripeness or partial ripeness yields better flour. Questions linger on grain quality, curing, and farm practices for rapid, weather-aware threshing.
The article argues against sunken hen houses and in favor of ventilated, well-aired spaces. It cites experiments with tight houses, underfloor and underground hennaries, and a Connecticut nery that improved airflow with a roof flue. Results include healthy, productive hens and unfrozen combs, noting hens can thrive with proper ventilation even in cold.
A reader recalls a 200 acre farm lacking white daisies and describes a 240 rod highway carrying winter hay from neighboring farms to a local market, reflecting editorial hints in the paper. The anecdote links rural life, transport routes, and market practices from years ago.
A breeder shares a long personal trial of ensilage, describing successive silo builds, corn selection, cutting times, moisture management, and packing pressure. He notes mixed outcomes from different years, with improvements toward sweet, well-packed silage and better feed value for cattle, hogs, and sheep.
The article argues for rapid beef maturity to boost profitability, noting British practice shifting to three-year and twenty four month beef. It highlights the aim to maximize value within limited time and references rising exports and demand in the United States, Great Britain, and Europe as market drivers. It discusses the impact of soil, space, and feeding on meat quality and profitability.
The article outlines quince cultivation essentials focusing on soil quality deep and rich with clay, drainage, and ample manure. It recommends liberal annual dressings, wood ashes, and potash, minor salt applications, weed control, mulching after bearing age, and regular pruning. It notes orange and apple as leading varieties and urges careful borers control.
A subscriber reports sheep reject whole clover not yet blossomed and asks why while seeking alternatives to grain. The author describes cutting clover to three-eighths, mixing middlings, using young tender clover, and cutting again for multiple feeds. Also advised are ground feed with clover, mixed meadow grasses cut before heading, and middlings as cheap supplements. Methods to spread droppings evenly on hilly pastures via strategically placed troughs and shelter, plus feeding with linseed meat and wheat bran to revitalize pasture and boost sheep growth.
Farmers should cut oats before full ripeness in damp weather and cure them well. Avoid large bundles and heavy shocks, as wet oats spoil quickly. Disassemble and spread bundles to dry, or stagger binding times and caps to reduce water intake. Cutting near the right time and small shocks aids rapid curing, especially when weather stays wet.
The excerpt advises on cutting and curing oats and clover for best feed, recommend a cutting box and mixing bran for efficient storage. It then discusses winter rye as a profitable crop in New England, optimal sowing times from August mid to September, seed rates of three pecks to a bushel, and benefits of early sowing for green fall feed, strong winter survival, and good pasture. It notes poorer soils require more seed and that rye stubble seeding aids soil retention.
Instructions for selecting ewes and rams to yield early lambs, recommending Merino-influenced ewes, multiple-breed options, and careful feeding starting before August. Emphasizes twice as many ewes, gradual feed increases, better pasture change, salt and daily water, and keeping ewes in good condition to produce fat, market-ready lambs with higher prices.
A rural digest notes a Dutchess County farmer reviving cabbage culture after a bran treatment on dew covered heads. It then surveys grain harvest timing, steam threshers, and storage, stressing dry grain, uniform kernels, and cooperative threshing to avoid delays. It also reports on English hop prospects, sugar cane yields in the South, and sugar production in Louisiana, with figures on exports and acreage.
A pious lady asks Homer Martin why he won’t go to church and he replies he likes church but can restrain himself. The anecdote appears in a New York letter reprinted in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
A satirical verse presents a fictional titled lady who boasts of marriage to a rich Italian count. The speaker mocks social climbing and the pretensions of wealth, noting Latin language exchanges and a robe of satin as symbols of elevated status.
In Philadelphia style guidance the game name used as a proper noun remains singular. Say Checkers is a game, billiards is a game. Treat the word as a name rather than a plural noun and match verb agreement accordingly.
In a Scots Methodist tale a rich man offers repairs to a collapsing chapel but is struck by falling plaster, prompting a warning about radical rebuilding. The piece urges readers to trust common sense and pursue Warner's Safe Cure for kidney issues, claiming many misery from lingering pains could be cured.
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