Stable manure and artificial fertilizers in farming
An 1885 farm note explains how plant nutrition requires phosphoric acid nitrogen sulfur and other elements, with stable manure supplying humus and improving soil texture. Artificial manures feed crops but do not build humus. best results come from combining stable manure with targeted fertilizers and green manures. Also reports butter and cheese trade trends for the year ending May 1885, noting record butter receipts in New York and variable cheese prices.
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Bradstreet’s
New York
Iowa
Nebraska
Bradstreet
Coal and iron dust for apple and pear trees
Orono Maine June 3 1885 letter asks if forge dust coal or iron ash benefits apple and pear trees. Reports improved foliage color and smoother pear fruit from forge refuse and notes manure value from blacksmith shop waste. Also summarizes Massachusetts bulletin on cow feeding costs and milk yields with ensilage and various grains.
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Orono
Weekly Globe
H. Y
Hints on Cheese Making Rules for Milk Varieties
G A Bonfoy of Herkimer County presents rules for full cream cheese making noting milk quality depends on local conditions. He describes gradual heating to 83 85 86 F, rennet use, cutting, stirring, and curd handling, with salt levels and cheddaring advised for warm weather. He stresses milk origin, local pasture, and water quality shaping cheese texture and flavor, urging careful timing of salting and pressing.
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N. Y
Soiling Dairy Cows Boosts Milk Yield Through Crops
A cultivator explains a year round feeding system for dairy cows using fall rye, early corn, oats, clover, Stowell evergreen corn, and mangels. The method emphasizes successive crop plantings, careful cutting and wilting of fodder, and keeping a one to two day reserve to ensure steady milk output and soil fertility. The system claims up to thirty tons per acre from multi crop cycles and highlights labor efficiency and manure savings.
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Massachusetts
New England
Stowell
Preserving Eggs: Advice on When to Hold For Market
Inquiries from subscribers prompt guidance on egg preservation. Do not store eggs for high prices if fresh eggs can fetch fair value. six months to a year storage degrades freshness and lowers price. Properly preserved eggs distinguishable from freshly laid, and prices drop accordingly. Some farmers may store to ride out market surges, yet overstock or distance to market affects profitability.
Preservation Methods for Eggs as Outlined by Farm Journal
The Farm Journal outlines several techniques to preserve eggs when fresh stock is scarce. Methods include lime and salt solutions, the Havana Process with lime water and mineral additives, salicylic acid solution, and sealing with paraffin or packing in dry earth or gypsum. Key advice stresses using sound eggs, proper containment, and cool storage to extend shelf life.
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Havana
Scientific American
Farm Journal
Dividing Versus Natural Swarming in Bee Management
Indiana Farmer advises beginners to favor natural swarming for growth but explains safe division with the old queen, preserving strength. It outlines forming nuclei on day eight, using brood and queen cells, and distributing hatching brood to nuclei to sustain continuous work.
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Ives
Indiana
Bee Keeping for Women and Bee Care Tips
A Prairie Farmer note advises women to keep bees only with diligent care and timely tasks. It warns queenless colonies die quickly, stresses populous hives, and urges hands on supervision, healthful outdoor work, and proper feeding especially in cool mornings for strong bees amid plum and cherry bloom.
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Theim
Armer
Farm Drainage Methods for Dry Land
The article explains drainage as removing surface water from flat or hollow soils. It covers laying subsoil drains to a foot below surface, using gravel to prevent plough damage, and orienting drains at right angles to surface fall with about one foot fall per 300 feet. Main drains cross slopes obliquely, avoid sharp turns, and consider springs.
Garden Planting Guidance For Late Summer Rows
The article advises sowing beans in two week intervals for succession and repeating with peas and lettuce. Radishes, turnip-rooted varieties for summer, late cabbages by month end, celery after early crops, and sweet corn up to early July. Recommends Stowell's Evergreen melons and cucumbers suitable for pickling while outdoor cultivation waits for summer heat.
Planting Advice For Gardeners Reflects Seasonal Timelines
The text offers gardening guidance with scattered notes on sowing onions and lettuce in various seasons, suggesting endive sowings in June and July, acknowledging autumn as the lettuce season, and advising sweet potato plants be acquired now. It emphasizes soil type and light requirements, noting stiff clay is workable with careful timing and that certain plant varieties are more suited to the eastern states.
When to Begin Mowing From the American Rural Home
A discussion on the best time to cut grass for hay cites scientific reports that bloom time yields the most nutritious and plentiful crops. Early cuts shrink more. late cuts raise fibre and reduce digestibility. The general advice favors cutting when ready and closer to bloom if possible.
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Department of Agriculture
Clover Hay Making and Storage Tips for Farmers
The article advises timely curing and proper storage of clover hay to prevent spoilage. It stresses using airy barns or open stacks with good ventilation, avoiding hot curing, and letting hay toughen in cock piles or with ready labor to haul after dusk. It notes clover’s value as winter feed for cattle and sheep and warns against rain reducing quality.
Cut and Cure Your Hay at the Proper Time
Indiana Farmer offers guidance on optimal hay cutting and curing. Harvest when blossoms fall, mow after dew dries, ted at mid day, and avoid air exposure to prevent mould. Use large stacks or tightly closed barns, cover the stack to keep air out, and salt hay to improve palatability.
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Indiana
Clover Use Improves Exhausted Lands But Needs Soil Fertility
The article explains clover’s role in renewing poor soils through plaster fertilization and multiple harvests. It notes clover adds no minerals and must be supplemented with phosphates and potash. Its value lies in the organic matter from roots and stubble, boosting soil for future crops when turned under.
Pear Growing for Profit in Market Pears and Varieties
The Germantown Telegraph notes pears are a reliable, profitable fruit when properly grown and timed. Summer pears sell quickly but fall and winter varieties fetch higher prices, especially for canning and long storage. Some winter types listed include Lawrence, Glout, Morceau, Sientle, Aremberg, Reading, Easter Buerre, Josephine de Malines, and Winkfield.
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Lawrence
Glout
Morceau
Sientle
Aremberg
Reading
Easter Buerre
Josephine de Malines
Winkfield
Germantown
Breed selection urges pure lines to protect stock
The passage counsels choosing a single breed and maintaining purity rather than crossing breeds. It warns that indiscriminate mixing ruins valuable herds and harms inexperienced breeders. It stresses patience, stating true breed establishment comes only after steady, careful selection.
Breeding Thoroughbreds and Pigs From Superior Stock
Guidance for selecting breeding stock emphasizes patience and expense for best results. It describes ideal boar and sow conformation with emphasis on health, form, and pedigree, noting breed choice depends on purpose and distance to breeder.
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Ible
Raising Ducks On The Farm For Profit And Pleasure
The article explains rearing ducks on farms with ponds or streams can be profitable especially where markets are nearby. It covers hatching, care of ducklings, feeding with oatmeal and scraps, and the value of eggs and feathers. It recounts personal anecdotes of duck-raising and offers incubation and care tips for reliable duckling survival.
Potatoes Need Clean Fields to Maximize Yield
The text argues potato fields suffer more from weeds than corn, stressing vigorous cultivation to destroy seeds and prevent future weed problems. It recommends frequent hoeing from emergence to blossoms, encourages use of cultivators for soil pulverization, and notes that hills may suit moist land while level culture aids rainfall use.
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Uder
Cultivation Advice on Ensuring Clean Land After Potato Crops
The Cultivator suggests growing potatoes with methods that secure a good yield while leaving land clean when removed. It emphasizes that proper measures, especially cultivation, are essential to achieve these goals and are not difficult to attain.
Improving the Jarring Method for Curculio Control in Orchards
John J. Thomas traces fifty years of refinement in curculio control from early multi-person sheet jarring to single-operator muslin screens and iron plug methods. He notes bark bruising as a concern, praises hole-plugging and hammer blows, and explains daily treatment from blossom drop through three weeks. The narrative compares small scale and large scale devices, estimating costs at five to six cents per tree for typical orchards.
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Ohio
Hull
L John J. Thomas
Farm Journal
Things Worth Knowing on Farm Notes from Wisconsin
Practical agricultural tips covering animal feed including whey use and milk effects, corn planting density, fodder quality, squash vine protection with saltpetre, bone smoothing with Emery, and corn cultivation methods. Highlights Ohio Experiment Station findings on grain varieties, fertilizers, seed rate, and cultivation depth.
Curious misprinted Bibles draw interest from New York Herald
The New York Herald surveys famous biblical misprints from 1611 onward, naming the Place makers Bible, Vinegar Bible, Wicked Bible, Persecuting Printers Bible, Ears to Ear Bible, Standing Fishes Bible, Breeches Bible and others. It notes origins, errors, and rare surviving copies while detailing publishers and historical context.
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New York Herald
Geneva
J. Basket
Basket
London
Robert Barker
Martin Lucas
William Kilburn
Woting
Usher
Wolfenbuttel
Henry Stevens
Caxton
Cotton Mather
Matthew
Oxford
King’s
Four New Supreme Judges in Cleveland Era Glimpse
The Cleveland Leader outlines four Supreme Court justices due to reach age seventy, risking retirement and potential reshaping of the bench under President Cleveland. It notes Justice Bradley plans retirement with wealth, Justice Field long service, Justice Miller the oldest by tenure, and Chief Justice Waite near 70 amid health and travel plans.
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Carp
Cleveland
Supreme Court
Supreme
John C. Calhoun
Justice Bradley
Field and Waite
Justice Iller
Washington
Branley
Rutgers College
Frelinghuysen
Justice Miller
Supreme Bench
Iowa
Lincoln
Dickens
Justice Field
Capitol Prison
Supreme Undes of
California
Judge Field
Cyrus
Stephen
Paka
Epee
Waite
Ohio
America
England
Hns
United States
An Instance of Total Depravity in New York Journal
A Brooklyn policeman questions a man attempting to brace against a lamp post. The exchange features quirky diction and phonetic humor, reflecting a chaotic street scene conveyed in witty illustrated prose.
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New York Journal
Brooklyn
We're Glad She Blushed
A brief comic exchange shows Jennie urging Mamie to stay while Mamie plans to ride with George. Mamie insists the outing is urgent business, and she blushes at the moment.
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Chicago
Jennie
Mamie
George
Secretary Whitney Courts a Frigate Rescue at Bedloe Island
Secretary Whitney climbed aboard the United States frigate Omaha off Bedloe's Island last Saturday. He cried out in a nautical bout of swagger about steering the vessel, urging the crew to brace the bow and bring it about. The captain warned of possible danger as the ship faced rough seas with stern resolve.
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Secretary Whitney
United States
Omaha
Bedloe’s Island
Music drives man wild in Somerville boarding row
Schoeppenstedt reports that a musically inclined young lady living on the floor below has driven him to change his boarding arrangements, claiming the noise has made him literally mad.
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Somerville Journal
Schoeppenstedt
Confound her hears music only in gospel terms
A speaker complains about a woman lacking musical ear. He mentions she she confines to Gospel Keen but criticizes her attempts at the Miserere and the Tannhauser overture, prompting him to leave abruptly. The remark labels her listening as felonious assaults on classic works.
Mulcahey Bets on a Walk Line and Gets Run Over
A drunken Irishman, Mr Mulcahey, bets he can walk a track line. He staggers along the car track as a runaway wagon breaks loose, four policemen free him, and he ends up in Bellevue Hospital. He vows to whip the man who struck him.
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New York
East Fifty-ninth Street
Mickey Grogan
Mr. Mulcahey
Begorra
A Short Tale With a Long Moral
A Wall Street note recounts a train accident near Indianapolis where a horse was struck at a crossing. A passenger, angered by the incident, argues that stock fortunes hinge on tiny events and that the road’s dividends depend on small matters. The exchange satirically links a single horse’s death to the value of risky investments.
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Wall Street
Indianapolis
Clergymen Plan 600 Mile Summer Bicycle Trip
In the Lowell Times a note says fifty clergymen intend a 600 mile bicycle trip this summer. The item notes a misspelled substitution and a humorous misprint about a clergyman taking a header with the old version in force.
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Lowell
Patent medicines and remedies advertised for sale
Hale's Honey cures coughs at two cents per dose as shown alongside Glen's Sulphur Soap for skin care and corn removers. Hill's Hair Dye offers black and brown shades while Pike's Toothache Drops promise one minute relief. Dean's Rheumatic Pills touted as a sure cure at fifty cents.
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Hale
Glenn
Hill
Pike
Dean
Weekly Globe Club List: Subscriptions and Prices
A ledger of periodicals and prices lists numerous journals and magazines, with subscription terms to THE WEEKLY GLOBE. Includes American and British titles such as Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Century, and Garden, detailing prices, durations, and address: BOSTON, MASS.
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Arthur's Home
American Dairyman
American Poultry Journal
Atlantic Monthly
American Art Journal
American Garden
American Agriculturial
Manuels
ArtAmateur
Soccersees
Army & Navy Journal
American Poultry Yard
British Quarterly Review
Hiackwood's
Brainerd
Beadle’s
Burlington
Hawkeye Boys
New York
Ballou’s Magazine
Bee-keeper’s Magazine
Babyland
Boston Pilot
Boston Medical
Century Magazine
Cottage Hearth
Cottage and Farm
Country Gentleman
Prem Connecticut Farmer
Chicago Advance
Christian Herald
Courier-Journal
Demorest
Forney
Frank Leslie
Germantown
Green’s Fruit Recorder
Gardner's Monthly
Godey
Howe Circle
Harper's Magazin
Harper's Weekly
Harper's Bazar
Harper's Young People
Herald of Health
Home Journal
Indiana Farmer.Independent
International Review
Iowa Homestead
Journal of Microscopy
Journal of Chemistry
le Francais
Lippincott’s
London Lancet
London
Edinburgh Review
London Quarterly Review
American Net
Mining Record
Mother's Magazine
North American Review
N. Y
Medical Journal
Fashion Bazar
Mysoty
N.Y
N. Y. Sportsman
Ohio Farmer
Puck
Portland Transcript
Phrenological Journal
Princeton Review
Prairie Farmer
Peterson's Lady's Magazine
Popular Science Monthly
Produce Exchange Bulletin
Philadelphia Medical Times
Practical Farmer
Rideout’s Magazine
Rural
New Yorker
Eh Ee
Saturday Evening Post
Scientific American
Sunday School Times
Sunny South
St. Nicholas
Sveses Samwuoriad
San Francisco Chronicle
Spirit of the Times
Sesereee
the Republic
Irish- Amer
Boston
the Critic
Akeue
Vick
Floral Magazine
Westminster Review
Wide Awake
Waverley Magazine
Eet Woch
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W. HH. Yeomans
Ww. H. Y
Bowen
Clover Hay
Esquire Davidson
Wisconsin
Ohio Experiment Station
Lazenby
Chicago News
Mr. Mulenhey
THE
Weekly Globe Club
Peerreetririrt
UUW Aed
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