Around the Farm. Sugar corn and butter-making notes
The piece outlines successive plantings of sweet corn from mid month to July, naming early and late varieties such as Cory Early, Early Marblehead, Early Narragansett, Stowell’s Evergreen, Black Mexican, and Amber Cream. It covers soil, spacing, nitrate use, harvest timing, and the role of corn and fodder in New England agriculture, plus practical butter processing tips and churn equipment.
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Cory
Marblehead
Narragansett
Stowell
New Yorker
Substitute Crops for Delicate Springs to Summer Plantings
Farmers confronted with idle land or poor spring crops can choose substitutes that mature before autumn frosts. By mid-May forecasts improve, guiding selections to boost pastures or fodder with crops like millets and fodder corn. Hungarian and German millets yield high forage. fodder corn drilled in June offers nutritious stalks and easier weed control, while corn withstands heat better than rye or oats, according to American Rural Home.
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New England
Massachusetts
Vermont
Great West
Granular Butter Making Promises Better Butter
A historical note explains granular butter making, seven years in use, claiming it yields better butter with half the labor. It warns many dairymen have not adopted the method, describes grains formed during churning, and argues against working the butter. It outlines removing buttermilk by draining through a fine wire strainer at the churn bottom.
THE POULTRY YARD Hints on Incubation and Nest Care
Practical notes on natural incubation by hens with ground nests or shallow boxes, dry bedding, and lice prevention. Guidance covers egg freshness, hen age effects on hatch, nest sanitation, proper feeding of newly hatched chicks, and fresh water requirements.
Fruit Culture Notes on Blackman Plum and Hedges
The article discusses the Blackman plum’s unreliable fruiting, urging investigation of blossoms and noting regional differences. It also covers general fruit culture: weed control, soil nutrition, thinning surplus fruit, and pruning for quality. It ends with hedge guidance recommending osage orange or honeylocust and practical planting and pruning steps from Wosiah Hoopes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hardy
Pennsylvania Inquirer
Best Bee Pasturage for High Honey Production
The article urges beekeepers to sow alsike clover and also plant buckwheat for continuous nectar. It recommends June sowing in northern regions, notes silverhul buckwheat yields good honey and bread flour, and highlights white mustard as a valuable honey plant with unique qualities.
When To Cut Hay For Nutritious Digestible Feed
The article describes hay making timing in pasture fields noting the best stage is full growth before sugar and starch convert into woody fibre. It emphasizes green juicy leaves with buds open, weather influence on harvest, and methods to wilt and dry hay to preserve nutrition and color. It warns against cutting during unsettled weather to avoid spoilage and explains several curing techniques.
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Ilinois
Timothy
Farmer B
New Yorker
Proper timing of clover and timothy in hay making
An agricultural note argues that cutting grass and clover at bloom in June yields the highest nutrient content and best feed. It warns that summer rains hinder hay making, and that late cutting reduces seed loss and feed value. Timothy and clover seed mature reduce hay quality and waste nutrients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timothy
Wastive Stoc Journal
The Persian Shah's Royal Household and Servants
A detailed portrait of the Persian monarch's household roles and staff. Describes the eunuchs, chief cooks, the Lord High Executioner, and other key figures, their duties, and how royal life blends ceremony with control. Notes vast demesnes, village appanages, gardeners, and the economy of palace service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Persia
Shah
God
Emin Helwt
Kister Aga
Europe
Russia
Teheran
Lar Valley
Mount Demanend
Parasol dogs and a tangle of odd notes from a busy era
A collage of quirky items and oddities from across the United States. tales of dogs with parasols in New York, a blacksmith in Colton, publishing and theatre notes, odd marriages, curious animal antics, and humorous anecdotes from newspapers in Chicago, Buffalo, Philadelphia, and beyond.
A Satisfactory Fence For Horses and Cattle
Waldo F. Brown outlines a practical fence design using three galvanized wires and a 3 inch board strip to aid visibility, with posts 32 feet apart. The system aims to deter horse injuries while keeping costs around 40 cents per rod plus materials and labor, and could last 20 years with proper construction.
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Waldo F. Brown
Bake Beans Down East Style by Dr Ephraim Cutter
Dr Ephraim Cutter outlines a New England method for preparing baked beans in a slow oven with soaked beans pork salt, molasses and water. After cooking, chew to test softness and observe starch melding. then go outdoors and attend church to aid digestion and holiness. Dyspepsia is labeled a physiological sin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ephraim Cutter
New England
The Hay Harvest Outlook and Clover Crops Rise
The Northwest faces a light hay harvest this season as farmers seek the cheapest efficient methods of gathering and securing the crop. Red clover also gains prominence across large areas in the corn and cattle states, shaping harvest priorities and farm decisions.
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Northwest
Paying Crops of Potatoes
Mr. John D. Thomkins of Brainard Wyoming shares practical potato farming tips from Chatham Courier. He describes spacing, fertilizer application, harrowing, hoeing, ploughing, cultivator passes, hilling, and careful Paris green use to control beetles and weeds. His method retained green growth through dry spells and yielded 220 bushels per acre last season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Thomkins
Brainard, Wy
Chatham Courier
Boeing
Ex-Cashier Gould Finds Notable Progress Behind Bars
Gould, an ex cashier, shows marked improvement in prison health and behavior. Prison physician Dr. Lauenseler notes he no longer needs medicine and has acclimated well. He works in trimming shops, chats little, and is regarded as well behaved and cooperative, despite an earlier nervous start.
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Gould
Lewiston Journal
Lauenseler
Grandmother's Ball A Hundred Years Ago Tale
A playful grandmother of Plymouth town defies social norms by slipping out at night to attend a ball with a French suitor. Her bold dance leads to gossip, a dramatic exit by her father, and a lifelong tale recounted by grandchildren beside a blazing hearth.
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Lily
Rose
Thomas
Tim
Old Plymouth
Grandmother
Grandma
Free Books Offered With Subscriptions to The Weekly Globe
Readers are urged to order valuable pressed volumes with any yearly newspaper or magazine subscription. The offer lists numerous titles and prices, highlighting that no publication will be sent for less than a year and subscriptions must begin with a weekly globe. readers are told to specify issue start and address.
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GLOBE
Arthur's Home Magazine
Andover Review
American Dairyman
Art Interchange Magazine
American Poultry Journal
Atlantic Monthly
American Art Journal
American Garden
Ssssceesseees
American Grocer
Weaness
American Agriculturist
Army&Navy Journal
Rock Buyer
Saneceeseensee
Banner Weekly
Brainard's Musical World
Burlington Hawkeys
Ballou’s Magazing
Ree-keeper's Magazine
Babyland
Boston Pilot
Boston Medical Journal
Boxton Medical and Surgical Journal
Christian Leader
Geutury Magazine
Ereres
Christian Union
Erree
Cottage Hearth
Christian Herald
Courier-Journal
Germantown Telegraph
Green's
Gardner's Monthly
Godey
Harper's Magazine
Harper's Weekly
Harper's Dagar
Harper's Young People
Herald of Health
Sereeeees
Ssseeeseneereeeres
Home Journal
Sereeeeessererees
Indiana Parmer
Eeeeeeree
Popular
Lee Pleasant Hours
London Lancet
American History
North American Review
Nation
Oritho
N. Y. Sporteman
Our Little Men
Who Parmer
Pansy Prairie Farner
Popular Science News
Philadelphia Medical Times
Philadelphia
Po Scientife American Ay Seribusr’s
Sonny South
Francisco
N. Y
Sereeees
Princeton Review
Peterson's
Lady's Magazine
Popular Science Monthly
Rideout’s Magazine
St. Nicholas
the Times
T Decorator and Furnisher
N.Y
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Faluadble
Sweet Corp
Mr. Hoopes
Apiary
Bhaying
Nasr Edeen Shah
G. W. Benjamin
New York City
Benjamin F. Butler
Colton
San Francisco
Pennsylvania
Spuytenvvil
Buffalo
F. E. Dennis
Brownsburg
Chicago Ledger
Montana
Cleveland Sun
Macon County
Estelline
D. T
City of
Mexico
Paris
New Orleans
Galveston
London
Osceola County
Iowa
Omaha
Sweden
Potomac
West Side
Chicago Journal
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Albert Stevens
Columbia College
Cincinnati
Times
New York State
Burlington Free Press
James Good
St. Louis
Mississippi Valley Transportation Company
Helena
Ark
Whittaker
Mrs. Whittaker
Cloverdale
Reveille
Julia
William Stegelman
California
Sacramento
Puente
The
Buffalo Express
the Express
Patagonia
Chestnut Street Opera House
Bernhardt
Theodora
Andreas
Philadelphia Bulletin
Otto
Bavaria
England
Nevada
Jack Shaw
Shamokin
Penn
P.knightlyin
P. Thieu
Bethlehem
New York Ledger
Albany
Weday
rTontgomery
A A
R. H. Holmes
Lansing
Eaton Rapids Road
Ichagon
Columbus
Sava
Alderson
W. Va
New Jersey
Xenia
John Dow
Rockland
A. L. Richardson
Pottsville
Milwaukee
Wiscop
Sittng Bull
Standing Reck
Oak
Bull
Chattanooga
Sam Jones
George M. Smiley
Greenfield
Mass
Mr. Smiley
Burgess
Smiley
Frostland
J . M. M. Sheats
Watkinsville
Troy Times
Robert J. Burdette
Sam Small
Montgomery Bailey
Danbury Newsman
Mark Twain
Hartford
Eugene Field
Chicagoars
Mr. Belliger
Bellevue Park
Pittsburg
Michigan
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