Public roads and farming methods in New England
An essay on the burden of poor public highways for farmers and the need for careful road maintenance amid population shifts toward towns. It discusses road design flaws, funding constraints, and the necessity of public support for roads, then shifts to farming practices including hay making, seeding mixes, clover and grasses, seed quantities, timing, and hay stacking techniques for optimal yield and stock feeding.
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New England
The Horse’s Shoes and Foot Care Plan
A practical guide from Live Stock Journal on restoring horse feet by removing shoes for a period on dirt or grass. Emphasizes eliminating chronic feverishness from hard pavements, developing the frog, and using earth cushions to prevent concussion while the animal rests on a natural surface.
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Live Stock Journal
Orchard grass and clover hay mixtures advice
Major Henry E. Alvord argues for mixed grasses on every farm to extend curing, improve food variety, and ease labor. He promotes orchard grass as core, notes soil, drainage, and topdressing needs, and suggests seeding with two bushels per acre in spring or late August, plus companion grasses and clover for pasture or hay.
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New Yorker
Henry E. Alvord
Houghton Farm
Imine
Mt .Imanure
Timothy
Harvesting Timothy Hay For Sheep And Horses
A Pennsylvania farmer offers practical Timothy hay harvesting guidance. Timely cutting by seed stage for sheep and by dough stage for horses yields better feed. The article covers mowing readiness, wilting, hand stacks, ventilation, and stacking foundations, plus rye as a versatile cover and green manure. It notes clover, weather, and market considerations for rye straw use and sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timothy
Pennsylvania
Sensible Crass Seeding For Better Pasture
A reader argues against sowing grass and clover on unprepared ground and urges waiting until grain is cut. Describes ploughing, cross ploughing, harrowing, and smoothing, and notes a thirty acre Timothy and clover field producing about three tons per acre despite two months without rain, with an expected yield of 100 tons hay overall.
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Ross
Ohio
Illinois
Pittsfield
Mass
Waldo
How Long for an Orange Grove to Bear Fruits
An orange grower answers a Northern question about bearing time. He notes intervals from six months to twenty years, determined by owner intent. The piece mentions a local colored man with a grove showing early fruit on small branches, tiny leaves, and low growth, kneeling to inspect.
The Orange Grower Sees Seedlings and Buds Compare
An orange grower explains how sweet buds grafted onto sour stock and seedling trees develop. He details a colored man’s grove with five groves near St Johns river, noting a six month old bud bearing and a fifty year old seedling grove, plus one tree bearing four oranges. He describes fertilizing with boiled fish, grafting methods, and expectations for return on investment in ten years.
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St. John's River
Bagging Grapes and Orchard Care Tips From Prairie Farmer
Article discusses bagging grape clusters with paper sacks to protect them from pests and improve quality, citing methods and benefits. It also covers summer care for young orchards, emphasizing pest control, moisture management, mulching, and irrigation to prevent drought damage.
Orchard Mulching and Summer Trimming Guidelines
The guidance stresses keeping mulching moist at all times and watering to saturate beyond the root zone. Summer trimming in a young orchard should shape trees to avoid future large limb removal, with careful, regular pruning by a vigilant orchardist to remove only growing twigs to maintain the desired form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sur- Por Bains
Planting the Strawberry Method and Results by Earle and Others
A Tennessee critic weighs strawberry planting with spade methods versus a multi‑tool system using a line, stakes, and two workers. The author details a rapid, measured approach: plough, plow, haul, level, then plant with a line guide. Field tests show 720 plants per hour under gale conditions and about 1000 per hour with better help, with careful trimming boosting growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker Earle
Tennessee
New Jersey
Thorough tillage boosts potato land profits in Ohio farmer's example
Mr T B Terry cites The Ohio Farmer to illustrate thorough tillage on a 36 acre lot. He details fall plowing and spring harrowing, deep soil pulverization, and rolling, arguing extra labor costs yield about 25 bushels more potatoes per acre and a $10 per acre return, with potential for strong wheat afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. B. Terry
Ohio
Thomas Harrow
Oliver
Acme
Poultry Cockerels and Housing Tips From Bliss NY column
Separate early producing cockerels for broilers to maximize value and keep future service birds separate to develop hardiness and higher meat returns. Emphasizes minimal condimental foods, limited lighting, restrained ventilation, and double wall construction to balance heat and cold, citing O. Bliss from New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bliss
New
Bee Notes for June and Quick Bee Keeping Actions
Bee notes for June emphasize prompt action in beekeeping, highlighting that bee-keeping surpasses other pursuits in importance to the author. The text discusses agricultural departments and hints at needed steps for successful bee management and season preparation.
Beekeeping Tips for Early Honey Harvest and Colony Health
The article stresses precise timing for honey flow, urging strong populous colonies with prolific queens. It warns against overdividing stocks early, favors fewer robust colonies, and advises on drone comb limits, empty combs for extraction, and stacking hives to expand storage space as bees begin storing surplus honey this month.
Facts to Remember for Garden and Farm Practices
Practical notes on soil moisture for planting, bean varieties, calf and cow remedies, wool markets, fruit preservation, and agricultural tips. Advice covers crop timing for millet oats beets clover and peas, beet varieties, asparagus division, timothy on wheat, potato seed thinning, and buckwheat rotation with warnings about wet soils and pastured leanings.
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Atlantic Seaboard
Tyndall
Chicago
New York
The Last Meeting at Clamart with Jacques and Madeleine
A survivor recalls a spring day at Clamart with Jacques and Madeleine, the dying wife, and their garden refuge. After the siege, the narrator finds Jacques dead beneath the vines, a pistol by his side, defending Madeleine’s memory amid a ravaged landscape.
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Clamart
Jacques
Paris
Madeleine
St. Cloud
Forgree
Mendon
White House
Vanves
Moulineaux
Hame
Arene
Hawthorne
Wen
The Oldest Drummer A Man Whose Travels Equal Two Round Trips
In East Bridgeport New Haven May 28 a portrait of Charles P. Lindley born 1818 Syracuse County New York known as Uncle Charley father of commercial travelers. Since 1837 he traveled for Gale Henshaw Burnham and others across New England South and the West employing wagons ships and wandering salesman methods. He describes shinplaster money and barter trade era with humor and detail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Bridgeport
Charles P. Lindley
Charley
Baltimore
Kutaw House
East Bridgeport
Fee Sample
Saratoga County
New York
Saratoga
Charney
Gale & Henshaw
Meriden
Gordon W. Burnham
Millionnaire
Burnham
New England States
Belchertown
Hartford
Watertown
St. Lawrence County
N. Y
Tur Glops
Philadelphia
United States Bank
Nick Biddle
Mobile
Ala
Montgomery
Mississippi
Tennessee
Lindley
Benedict & Burnha
Mr Lindley Deodorizing Lamp Burners and Travels
Mr Lindley managed lamp burners with average daily sales of two barrels and studied deodorizing oil with chemists. He left his firm four years ago for Holmes Edwards Silver Co in Bridgeport where he remains. He has traveled 1 500 000 miles by steamer and rail, never injured, and has attended every Congress since 1838. He helped elect Mr Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindley
Colle Pr Fessors
Holmes & Edwards Silver Company
Bridgeport
Globe
Atlantic
Congress
Cleveland
A Real Political Dog in Kentucky
A long waiting Kentucky Democrat prized a dog as a political symbol. A traveling man notes the dog on the porch with tongue hanging low, joking that the dog is a “boss” dog who seems to know Cleveland is a clerk and begs for the post.
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Kentucky
Cleveland
Just Three Whiskey Straights.
The Philadelphia Call notes a claim that rhetoric and rhapsody do not birth eloquence, arguing that true eloquence comes from other sources, not mere words or musical expression.
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Philadelphia
Delares
Rhapsody
The Lady or the Tiger continuation teased
The Lowell Times announces a continuation titled The Discourager of Hesitation. The piece is framed as a strong opinion in support of coppering the egg when the queen reaches apogee, signaling a provocative editorial stance.
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Lowell Times
Some thing new church entertainment at Huntsville item
The Huntsville Item reports a church event with admission twenty five cents and notes that the fare is not new. It profits from entry fees and additional charges, describing it as an old affair with modest prices.
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Galveston News
Huntsville Item
Hale's Honey and other patent medicines catalog
A catalog of patent medicines offers Hale's Honey for coughs at 25c, Glenn's Sulphur Soap beautifies, German Corn Remover for corns, Mills Hair and Whisker Dye in black and brown, Pike's Toothache Drops cure in a minute at 25c, and Dean's Rheumatic Pills priced at 50a.
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Hale
Glenn
Pike
Dean
Weekly Globe Club List and Subscription Prices
A dense catalog of magazine titles and subscription rates, listing American titles such as Atlantic Monthly American Naturalist Orchard Garden and Harper's various publications with new and renewal pricing. Includes terms about subscriptions sent to single addresses and minimum one year commitment.
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Arthur's Home Magazine
American Dairyman
Art Interchange
American Poultry Journal
Atlantic Monthly
American Art Journal
Issaceve Boo
American Garden
Otesserecevece Loo
American Agriculturist
Eessecserers Tesseens
Army & Navy
American Poultry Yard
British Quarterly Review
Blackwood's Magazine
Brainerd
Boston Medical Journal
Seebeecseseere
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
Christian Leader
Eecserersvessseaner
Century Magazine
Sos
Country Gentleman
Seissers
Connectiqut Parmner
Chicago Advance
Christian Herald
Courier-Journal
Demorest
Donahow'’s
Esceene
Detroit Free Press
Engineering and
Edinburgh Review
Forney
Frank Leslie
Chimney Corner
Eeseee
Germantown Telegraph
Green's Fruit Recorder
Gardner's Monthly
Seecesserreereverceres
Godey
Harper
Herald of Health
Home and Farm
Home Journal
Indiana Farmer
Independent
International Review
Town Homestead
Journal of Microscopy
Eeeerreees Journal of Chemistry
le Francais
Lippincott’s Magazine
London Lancet
London
London Quarterly Review
Methodist
American Hist Mining Record
Mother’s Magazine
North American Review
N. Y. Medical Journal
N.Y. Fashion Bazar
Nursery
N. Y
Spc
Ohio Faiiness Ee
Portland Transcript
Princeton Review
New Yorker
Saturday Evening Post
Scientine American
Tart
Sunday School Times
Sunny Southis
Sererere
Nichoma
San Francisco Chronicle
Spirit of the Times
the Republic
Vick's Floral Magazine
Westminster Review
Waverley Magazine
WGA
Easeness
Western Stock Journal
Lab Weekly
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W. H. Yeomans
Rass
Kansas
Jes F. Lindley
THE
Weekly Globe Club
Ek!orty
Leeeeeene
Ly. Nan
Lane
Sette Ene
Reys Danies
Boston
Sersersers
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