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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1880
Page
3
Poetic fragment describes Lisette in a village street awaiting news of a lover. Fire and drum echoes rise from a distant valley as bugle notes play. The scene shifts to joy as Lisette imagines reunion, harvest and children celebrating in a peaceful, radiant morning. The lines invoke Celia Thaxter’s voice.
The WEEKLY Globe announces an open agricultural department inviting farmers to contribute essays questions and answers on farming stock and soil. Readers urged to share experiences on sugar beet culture dairy cattle winter feed and laying hens with Boston Massachusetts as the contact for the Agricultural Editor.
Readers learn two seed-bed methods for tobacco with southern exposure preferred. One method burns a brush-heap to loosen soil and add potash, the other tills and composts with rotted manure. A Kentucky planter suggests a plank barricade and moss or muslin coverings to protect seeds from pests and frost, with precise sowing instructions and thinning guidance.
Mr E Williams of Montclair NJ outlines grape variety lists and pruning wisdom. He notes five core varieties Cottage Telegraph Warden Concord Martha and discusses hybrids like Brighton Goethe Lindley Merrimack Salem Aga wam Wilder Massasoit. He cautions against over pruning and stresses two key pruning rules: fruit comes from last year’s cane and proper balance of growth and fruit.
A seasoned writer offers practical maple sugar guidance focusing on cleanliness and straightforward gear. He compares traditional sheet-iron pans with new evaporators, notes spile history, and stresses careful sap collection and arch placement to minimize handling before boiling.
A Farm and Fireside feature extols manure as the key to soil fertility and higher profits. It urges expanding the manure pile via fattening stock, using grain-fed manure for richer plant nutrients, and utilizing woodland leaves and muck to absorb waste and improve barnyard fertility.
Comprehensive rural manual outlines manure preparation seed choice and crop rotation for mangels and beets. It details fertilization sowing depth weed control irrigation, and feeding regimes for horses cows sheep pigs geese and poultry, emphasizing soil health and animal nutrition for winter dairying.
The column surveys latest bonnets flowers fichus and elegant articles of fancy work. It highlights fashion notes and decorative pieces with practical style tips for the season.
The article surveys winter bonnet styles including satin antique crowns with white jet brims, velvet and beaver hats, and directoire bonnets. It notes trims such as ostrich plumes, Spanish lace, jet beads, and fur strings, plus new corsage flowers, scarfs, and lace fichus. It covers neckties, fur hats, ivory toiletries, serpent bracelets, seal satin dresses, and evolving coiffure trends.
Practical instructions cover needlework purses using blue white and gold threads and crochet patterns as well as Roman Afghan patterns. Guidance extends to curtain styling lace and muslin blinds, feather crafts for mats rugs and lamp shades, plus a knitted shawl a photo fan and decorative sewing ideas.
A dated kitchen and crafts piece describes baking a grand cake with large coffee cups of flour and eleven egg whites, plus vanilla. It shifts to a paint-like mix of whiting skimmed milk lime linseed oil stirred constantly, noting the mixture dries to a finish that cannot be rubbed off.
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