Can Farmer Make His Own Fertilizer At Home
In this weekly note, Andrew H. Ward explains that farmers or gardeners can manufacture their own fertilizer by mixing readily available materials. Potash can be supplied by potash or soda ash. nitrate of soda or peat-based sources with soda ash provide nitrogen. Phosphorus comes from fine bone meal, ground phosphate rock, or phosphate gas. Mixing ratios tailor to soil and crop. no large plant or capital needed.
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Andrew H. Ward
Union Stock Yard
Waldo F. Brown
Europe
Germany
France
Atlantic
Johnnycake
Noah
Curtis
B. Terry
Ohio
Tess
Geoces
Etter
London
Wheat fertilizer trials at Ohio station show modest gains
The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station reports 20 trials using stable manures at 16 tons per acre yielding 48.6 bushels per acre, 10.7 more than unfertilized plots. Inorganic manures averaged 37.7 bushels, organic manures 45.2, with barnyard manure giving the best results though none covered cost.
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Weekly Globe
Clover hay curing methods from Indiana Farmer observations
Farmers share methods for cutting and curing clover to minimize spoilage. Best plans include cutting when heads brown, avoiding windrow piling, and curing in four hours of sun. Some advocate morning cutting with afternoon mowing, while others warn against premature mowing causing heat and mold. Designs emphasize minimal handling and direct windrow to mow transfers.
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LN. T. Shephin
Indiana
Alfalfa Culture Tips and Weed Control Practices
Practical notes on alfalfa soil needs sowing rates and timing, preparation the year before, deep ploughing in fall and spring harrowing, mowing young stands to prevent seeding, and considerations of gopher damage. Also discusses weed control through frequent cultivation and hoeing during wet seasons and cautions against late, deep plowing that buries weeds.
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Gophers
Proper Deep Planting and Weed Control For Old Garden Land
The Ploughman advises planting potatoes four to six inches deep to prevent sunburn and recommends persistent control of purslane, barnyard grass, and chickweed in old garden land. Seeding with clover or pasture can choke purslane, reducing pests and diseases, though weed seeds remaining after ploughing require ongoing effort.
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Harles Prolicy Warner
Two-Year-Old Cattle Top Market in Philadelphia Sale
A New Jersey farmer reports on feeding two batches of Hereford bulls from calving in 1886 to market at 23 and 25 months. Lot No 1 gained 319 pounds by winter and 1220 pounds total before sale. Lot No 2 gained 243 pounds in winter and 1146 pounds at 25 months, with top prices at Abattoir stock yards. The writer notes high feed efficiency and questions pasture and weather effects while urging comments from readers.
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Baltimore City
Abattoir
Philadelphia
Cattie
Understanding Bee Swarming and Queen Rearing Methods
The text discusses timing of queen hatching and after swarming. It compares methods by E A Manum and Kanum to control swarms, noting early or late hatching can trigger after swarms and that certain techniques prevent after swarming but may affect old colonies. It emphasizes balancing swarm prevention with keeping the original hive strong.
Requeening by splitting a hive and rapid queen introduction
The article describes increasing a bee colony by placing an empty hive beside a strong colony, moving the queen and half the brood to the new hive, and replacing the old colony with frames or foundation. The new hive is built up quickly, a queen is introduced early, and stores are supplied while avoiding a self-rearing queen. It notes an egg to queen development time of about 21 days and potential high daily laying rates.
How to Preserve Eggs Leading Poultry Q A Answers
A correspondence to I K Felch MA on costs and outputs of egg farming covers live hen prices per head and per pound, egg yields per year per hen, costs to keep hens, hatch and rearing numbers, egg sale prices, land needs for 100 hens, and building costs for housing. The piece notes sex ratios and market ranges.
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Poultry Authority
I. K. Felch
Massachusetts
New England
Egg Storage Plans Increase Profits and Risks for Home Poultry
Article notes rising practice of storing summer eggs for fall sale to profit from price differences. It warns prices will likely fall as storage grows, reducing margins. It outlines methods: cool temperatures, ice storage or lime wash, air exclusion, salt packing, turning trays, and using only fresh eggs. Care needed in gathering and handling to avoid losses.
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Bette
The Management of Bees Artificial Swarming
The article explains preventing or controlling bee swarming in large apiaries. It discusses using large hives to avoid swarming in extracted honey, while comb honey production still swarms heavily. The Heddon method is described to hive the swarm on the old stand then move the old hive to a new location, weakening the parent colony as young queens hatch.
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Kanum
Farm Reform Outlook and Practical Rural Techniques
Long farmers article discusses high transport costs and market control by a few capitalized firms, urging reforms and better pricing. It covers modern cooling methods for dairy, fence post foundations, breeding stock care, and improved corn cultivation with deep tillage and steady feeding, plus butter making and shingles protection.
Form of elucose and manure methods in agricultural practice
The text discusses forms of elucose and mixing humus with stable manure to absorb liquids, with a slow composting method and additives like lime, phosphoric acid, and potash to create lasting fertilizer. It also notes unleached wood ashes as a lasting grass fertilizer and covers millet and berry growing practices and profits, with a Boston market example.
Evolution of New York meat and fish freezinghouses
The article notes New York City's eight large meat and fish freezing plants with 15 000 tons total capacity plus many private plants. It describes ice and salt versus ammonia freezing, temperatures from five to twenty below zero, and details like prairie chickens and plover stored, poultry as the principal commodity, and claims that long freezing preserves flavor and allows off season profits.
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New York City
Seperate Produce
Sam of the Neaksatre Hills and the Meadow Wall
A rural poem about Sam, a country lad guarding the meadow and cows, courting by the wall, calling Ho boss, and awaiting manhood with his wife and child beside the barn. The scene shifts from hillside to farm life with the name Atlant H Harpy credited at the end.
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Sam
Bani
Atlant H. Harpy
The Sahara Not So Black as It Is Painted
The Sahara ranges from rugged high plateaus to lower clay beds with oases and lakes. Algerian Sahara occupies about one third of the region, with gypsum soils and intermittent villages fed by artesian wells, rivers and oases.
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Sahara
Cornhill Magazine
Dartmoor
Derbyshire
Salt
Sovete & i
Lambert Playfair
Aetek
Early risers find joy in dawn fitness routine
An able bodied married couple in the city rise at dawn after an 8 p.m. bedtime and 4 a.m. wake, spending an hour at Central Park for walking and fun. They praise dawn air, birdsong, flowers, and sunshine, arguing late sleepers miss these pleasures and the mood-boosting benefits of early rising.
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Ths City
Central Park
An Occasion for Tears
In a poor city shade tree a mocking bird sings at twilight touching passersby. The tender melody moves a portly merchant and others to tears as memories of childhood and green fields return to mind. A laughing reply explains tears come from pity for beautiful music rather than suffering.
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Terre Haute
Scriptural Truth Lesson Sparks Sudden Offense in Class
Sunday school scene from the Nebraska State Journal shows a teacher quoting turning the other cheek. A pupil responds bluntly that if an enemy strikes, the youth would strike back with force.
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Nebraska State Journal
Judge of Art Tale In Drake Magazine Conversation
A playful exchange between Bobby and his sister centers on a judge of fine art. Bobby reveals a plan to gather many painters who painted a portrait to repaint his house.
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Bobby Oh H
His Great Good Fortune in Somerville Journal
The excerpt shows a book agent touting a new encyclopedic dictionary as one item while a man responds he has no use for it and mentions having married a Boston win. The piece reflects playful wordplay and a local newspaper vignette.
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Somerville Journal
Boston
Into the Matrimonial State Five Kentucky sisters named for states
The Norristown Herald quips about five girls in a Kentucky family all called Arkansas Louisiana Tennessee Florida and Virginia. The joke imagines them as a single state requiring male suitors’ consent to join the Union.
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Norristown Herald
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Arkansas
Louisiana
Tennessee
Florida
Virginia
Oddities and curiosities span across nations and time
A sprawling mock-news collage reports on quirky facts from around the world, including a vast number of lawyers in Gotham, a script-capable typewriter promise, odd births and marriages in small towns, peculiar animals, peculiar wages and bets, mysterious floods, and international notes from Europe and America.
Sunshine for Little Children Offer With Engravings
A promotional offer states that for fifty cents a buyer will receive Sunshine, a 48 page folio magazine edited by Rev. J Henry Smythe, two limhoed watercolors by Ida Waugh, and The Weexty Grose for three months, mailed postage prepaid. The package would cost one dollar and seventy five cents if bought elsewhere.
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J. Henry Smythe
D.D
Ida Waugh
Sunshine picture heads delight a reader in a northern window
John G. Whittier and Oliver Wendell Holmes thank a friend for a charming set of children’s picture heads and a Sunshine issue. The sender praises the gallery of childhood and notes an offer to mail two numbers plus a collection for fifty cents, with orders to This offer is explained on the eighth page.
How to Sell Goods In Salesmanship Then and Now
A New York merchant cites the core rule of selling: the seller must size up the purchaser and tailor the approach. He argues sales skill is born, not made, and stresses reading customers, avoiding mismatched pitches, and studying competitors to close the sale.
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New York
Victor Hugo
Sgt
Paul
Graduation Attire Sparks Loud Commentary in Press
A Journal of Education critique notes extravagant dress at a recent graduation. It highlights gowns described as silk and moire with decollete, cream cashmere ensembles, and black tulle, alongside elaborate accessories and ornate bouquets.
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Journal of Education
Liss Gertrude
Cora
Betty
Amanda
Eva
Hetese
Etul
Wise Maine coast tale on safe canoeing wisdom
An old man at Rodack's Tavern notes that there is no danger in canoeing if you stay in the canoe. The dialogue reflects summer visitors and youthful wanderers on Branchmen's par and surrounding islands in Maine.
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Maine
Rodack’s
Arbor
Patient-Frankly Autopsy Delivers Plain Facts
Fragmentary line from the Somerville Journal notes a frank admission about uncertainty before an autopsy. The brief exchange hints at forthcoming clarity on a medical case.
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Somerville Journal
Voters Weigh National Flower Choice in Suffolk County
In Boston and Suffolk County the national flower selection continues with the Suffolk county featured daisy known as wallflower leading the poll as voters compare candidates.
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Mer Head
New York
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