Around the Farm Noxious Insects Treatise 1884
A detailed bulletin from the Ohio Experiment Station outlines preventive and remedial tactics against crop pests. It covers plant vigor, crop rotation, barriers, trunk washes with soap or whale oil, tobacco solutions, gas lime, and sweetened sprays. It also advises about specific pests like root worms, codling moths, pea weevil, and potato beetles, plus farm-wide rotation to restore fertility and sustain yields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thehio
Lintner
Rotation and stock feeding a sure resource
Farmers in long cultivated regions seek ways to restore exhausted lands. Clover and other crops help but are costly. home made fertilizers from bone, ash, and potash show promise. A Maine test of homemade phosphate yielded heavy corn and potatoes at low cost, suggesting practical, economical fertigation for gardens and fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nothiias
Atlantic
5. W. Johnson
Connecticut
Maine
Insect War On The Vine And Garden Crops
The article urges aggressive pest defense against grapevine flea beetles and tea beetles. It notes steel blue flea beetles threaten fruit buds and recommends picking off pests, crushing on vines, and destroying infested leaves where young feed. It mentions cool mornings and cloudy days aid catching, and warns against damp weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unu
Orchard grass and sheep husbandry in Vermont pastures
A long excerpt discusses orchard grass as a premier pasture and hay plant, detailing growth, drought tolerance, seed mixes, and timing for cutting. It also covers pasture management, grain feeding for sheep, lambing timing, and manure use, advocating early lamb sales, careful grazing, and soil enrichment to improve pastures and wool production in Vermont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moore
New Yorker
Vermont
Barnard
F. D. Curtis
Country Gentleman
A Vermont Farmer’s Three Flocks of Sheep and Crossbreeding Plans
A Vermont farmer recalls past Merino herds, outlines shifting to cows, and details three sheep flocks. He praises Oxford Downs for mutton and wool, notes crosses with Merino, Southdown, Cotswold, and Leicester to improve size and fleece, and aims for a profitable, dual-wool and meat flock with lambs weighing 4 to 5 months old at 4 to 5 months and wool over ten pounds from each shear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
Oxford Downs
Oxfords
Cotswold
Lincoln
Oxford
Charlton
Southdown
Leicester
Cotswolds
Timber Cutting Wisdom From Ohio Farmer
The Ohio Farmer essay argues to cut timber for fuel on best land while leaving shade trees, noting trimming can improve beauty. It cites Oscar Wilde on art for the poor, emphasizes cutting timing by wood quality over moon phases, and praises wooden fences for sparing trees. It links wood management to pasture health, dairy production, and grass gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ovcar Wilde
Horace Greeley
Ohio
Change in farming to barley and grass to stabilize crops
The Midland Farmer notes a major shift in farming, urging reduced wheat areas and increased grass and barley. Barley offers a steady home market, supports livestock feeding, and suits varied elevations and cooler regions, while isothermal nuances suggest many locales may favor barley over wheat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt
Interesting Items in Tobacco Culture Report
Professor J B Killebrew analyzes tobacco culture and curing in the United States. He notes tobacco adapts like corn and potatoes, thriving on well drained soils rich in potassium salts. Across the Union, any soil from Indian corn can grow tobacco, with regional quality differences driven by soil and climate. Southern fine tobacco grows on soils low in organic matter, burning cleanly with nicotine, suggesting climate differences explain fertility anomalies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Killebrew
United States
Department
Tobacco Quality and Fertility Across American Soils
The article discusses how commercial foresters raise yields in southern tobacco but may not improve quality, while northern practices often enhance quality. It notes composted manures boost yield and color, explains soil color and lime content influence leaf color and strength, and contrasts seed leaf and wrapper tobacco preferences across regions with soil types.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
North Carolina
Virginia
Cause and Cure of Shying in Horses
Shying stems from impaired eyesight causing fear of ordinary objects. Over-heating or over-drawing and wolf-teeth can cause poor vision. Cooling diets with mashes and laxa tive pine salts can purify blood and restore sight. wash eyes with mild witch hazel extract to reduce strain, but severe strain risks blindness.
Agricultural tips on milk, pests, and fodder from a rustic dairy page
Detailed shopworn advice covers milk tests with a polished needle, harness dressings, Paris green pest control, iron as antidote, and safe dilution. It also discusses crop timing for wheat oats millet and Hungarian grass, milking routines, forage strategies, and wool quality. It ends with orchard care for borers and wool market figures for 1886.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell
London
Paris
Jersey
Channel
Alderney
Eer
Australia
First Ragweed and Mildew Taints in Milk and Cream
A farmer warns that ragweed in pastures and mildew in damp cellars spoil milk flavor. Causes include feeding on stubble, slow skim milk, and poor cleaning. Remedies cited include sulfur fumigation, dry air with lime, avoiding long storage, saltpetre or salicylate of soda additives, and ensuring clean milking gear.
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Espeia
Seed selection by straw vigor in Pennsylvania and Maryland wheat
Pennsylvania and Maryland wheat growers favor seed from fields with strong straw growth over berry fullness. Originating with D. M. Good, the practice notes shrunken seed from a lodged, vigorous field yielded better crops. The idea: plant vigor lies in straw strength, not berry plumpness, a view echoed by New England rye farmers when buying seed from highly fertile fields.
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
D. M. Good
Washington County
Good
New England
Salted butter washing methods from old dairy guidance
The article warns that washing butter with ice or fresh water harms quality and favors brine or pickle washing. It recommends preparing a strong pickle days ahead, using pickle for washing, and notes that good creamery butter is salted at one ounce per pound.
Butter quality remedy urged by Major Alvord
Major Alvord explains salt crystals on butter surface come from coarse salt, improper mixing, too much water, or bad salt. He urges using a churn that produces granular butter to fix the problem.
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Major Alvord
Home canning tips for fruit jams and jellies
Practical guidance on selecting quantities, storage, and preserving fruit through cans jars and glassware. Advice covers jars versus tins, labeling, and preferred containers for currants gooseberries strawberries and cherries with step by step jelly and jam recipes, ratios and processing times.
Amusing French Chamber Quip Echoes In Havre
For Our Readers in Havre London Truth recalls a humorous moment from the French Chamber when news of Herat sparked a pun. The foreign minister's plowing phrase about Dost Mohammed drew laughter and a cheeky remark about the Shah and a mouse in the chamber.
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Havre
London
Herat
la Chambre
A Capital Scheme
A Pittsburg Chronicle item shows a teacher asking a girl where she is going and the girl replying about Florida. The punchline defines the capital of Florida as the money earned from boarders, reflecting a humor piece on school talk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg Chronicle
Nellie
Florida
Congratulatory Gift Rumor Spreads Across Nation
A Chicago news tidbit recalls Whitelaw Reid sending a message to a general on the eve of a celebration. Alleged aftermath describes lavender water traces stretching four feet wide and three inches deep across the continent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitelaw Reid
Telegraph Operators Receive Gloves at Logan’s Springfield Hotel
Telegraph operators wore kid gloves as the scene moved to Logan’s Springfield hotel where the item was presented on a silver salver of perfume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Springfield
Hints Upon Gardening for July and August
Brief notes on gardening duties and seasonable suggestions. Guidance covers sowing stocks in July and August, potting and planting roses, feeding rose trees, keeping aphids at bay, pegging heding plants, planting hydrangeas and scarlet geraniums, pruning evergreens, propagating violets, and dividing and transplanting irises, with soil mixes and watering guidance.
Weekly Globe Club List of Subscriptions and Prices
A long OCR listing various magazines and journals with their subscription prices, including Arthur's Home Magazine and American Dairyman, plus notes on ordering policies for The Weekly Globe. It catalogs hundreds of titles and rates, highlighting single address limits and the requirement of a yearly Globe subscription.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur's Home Magazine
American Dairyman
Art Interchange
American Poultry Journal
Atlantic Monthly
American Art Journal
American Garden
American Naturalist
American Agriculturial
Manuels
Sele Ate Amatcut
Ceserscerser
Army & Navy Journal
American Poultry Yard
British Quarterly Review
Chicago Advance
Christian Herald
Couriez-Journal
Aessccesans Ae Demorest
Donahoe’s Magazine
Detroit Free Press
Blackwood's
Brainerd
Beadle’s
Saturday Journal
Burlington Hawkeye
Boys of New York
Ballou’n Magazine
Bee-keeper’s Magazin
Babyland
Boston Pilot
Boston Medical Journal
Boston Medical and Surgical
Christian Leader
Century Magazine
Aan
Country Gentleman
Connecticut Farmer
Steeneeweeeeres Gwu Eclectic Magazine
Edinburgh Review
Forney
Frank Leslie
M’y
Seeesseeee Germantown Telegraph
Green's Fruit Recorder
Gardner's Monthly
Godey
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
Pren Lippincott’s
London
Lancet
London Quarterly Review
London Quarterly Review Methodist
Medical Journal
Fashion Bazar
Sportsman Ohio Farmer
Puck
Portland Transcript
Princeton Review
Prairie Farmer
Produce Exchange
Philadelphia Medical Times
Practical Farmer
Wrew Rideout’s Magazine
New Yorker
Saturday Evening Post
Sunny South
St. Nicholas
Oyee
San Francisco Chronicle
Spirit of the Times
the Republic
Boston
Vick's Floral Magazine
Westminster Review
Waverley Magazine
Waterman
Tus Weeekly Globe
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W. H. Yeomans
Nature
M. Nrich
Prairies
Minnesota
The
Tribune
Malcolm Little
Orchard Crass
Tamarac
Weekly Globe Club
Wang
Beeeenenene
Mindek
Sesteteareeere
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