Enterprising Farmer Seeks South Help To Use All Farm Products
In February 1879 Alexander A Greene of Chilton County Alabama offers a 120 acre farm with eight rooms, water, fruit trees, mill site, and a ready market for cotton. He seeks an enterprising southern farmer to learn value-added farming and purchase the property for $1000 with livestock, aiming to install a grist and saw mill and water gin.
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Corrervville
Chilton County
Ala
Weekly
Globe
Alexander A, Greene
The Poultry Yard and Laying Hens Care Advice
A comprehensive guide on selecting and maintaining laying hens with emphasis on body conformation and hardiness, feeding, water, and housing. Advises weeding out weak birds in fall, proper nest behavior, and guarding runs from predators. Discusses Hamburgs and other breeds, feeding for profit, calcareous matter, water, gravel, green food, and economical kitchen scraps for flock health and egg production.
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Hamburgs
Hamburg
Sam
Leghorn
Gude
Evolution of wild horses and horse breeding history
The article surveys wild mustangs of South America as descendants of Spanish horses, discusses domestication, and traces horse origins across Europe and Asia. It highlights Bakewell’s Dishley methods, early breeding for cart horses, imports from Holland and Belgium, and notes on horse physiques and regional varieties. It also includes farming guidance on foal rearing, milk feeding, grain, and orchard culture practices.
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America
Australia
South America
Lapland
Greenland
Julius Cesar
Kent
Europe
London
Holland
Belgium
Bakewell
Dishley
Midland
Leicestershire
Farm Journal
Orchard Culture Increases Fruitfulness With Careful Cultivation
A Pennsylvania Fruit Growers Society paper by George Balderston argues soil type and grass growth dictate cultivation needs in mid Atlantic orchards. He warns sod and grass cover can hinder young trees, while careful cultivation and garden-like tending boost wood growth and eventual fruitfulness.
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Nature
Mailure
Pennsylvania Fruit Growers’ Society
George Balderston
Cecil County
Middle States
New York
Timothy Sod
Maryland
Weston
Popular Blackberries and Cucumber Glasshouse Notes
The article surveys blackberry varieties such as Taylor's Prolific Wachubett Thornless and Kittatinny, praising hardiness and productivity. It also details winter and spring cucumber cultivation in hot beds and greenhouses, seed starting, transplanting, watering, and bee pollination, plus early cauliflower and radish notes.
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Taylor
New England
Lenormand
Paris
Erfurt
Algiers
Vick’s Monthly
Naples
Detroit
New Yorker
The Pig Improved Swine Breeding Proposal
An editorial urges farmers to improve swine quality rather than size. Smaller breeds fatten efficiently, offering better cuts and lower feed costs. Advocates crossing breeding sows with small high quality breeds like Essex Berkshire Suffolk Yorkshire to produce better grades.
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Essex
Berkshire
Suffolk
Yorkshire
Timing Pig Breeding For Best Market Profit
Turf Field and Farm advises selecting nineteen month old pigs for butcher, noting October pork is cheaper than November. The piece covers feeding, confinement versus barnyard freedom for sows, risk of smothering and piglet loss, and avoiding cohabitation of newborn piglets to reduce stress and fatalities.
Pearl Millet Culture and Forage Use Across Climates
A 25 year field experience details millet cultivation in 33 north latitude, with bed spacing, drill methods, and seasonal harvests. It covers double row beds, broadcast sowing with cow manure, and green sailing use. Also notes alfalfa sowing, seed trade, and bee behavior under varying queen age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrow
Fay
New Yorker
The Climate of Eastern Virginia Lecture Notes cabbage farming
Joseph H. Biesen Sr of Erin Shades Virginia deliver ed a lecture to Tuckahoe Grange on January 14 1879 arguing that Eastern Virginia can grow fresh cabbage year round. He details sowing transplanting cycles soil prep and a salt spray method to protect heads and extend winter harvests with practical notes and requests for future discussions.
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Joseph H. Biesen, Sr
Erin Shades
Virginia
Tuckahoe
Peter Henderson
Jersey Wakefield
M's
Swayne's Ointment Advertisement for Piles Cure
An old advertisement promotes Swayne's Ointment as a cure for itching piles and related skin conditions. It claims relief from moisture and itching, notes nighttime aggravation, and offers the product by mail from Dr. Swayne & Son, with prices and ordering details included.
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Swayne
Nail
Dr. Swayne & Son
North Sixth Street
Philadelphia
Bistaaah Co
Goodwin & CO
Hanover Pleas
Bosto Ou
Lobe
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Tok Werexiy Globe
Boston
Mass
Turkey
R. H. Haines
Kittatiny
Snyder
Wallace
Dorchester
Wilson
Saugerties-on-Hudson
N. Y
Connecticut State Board of Agriculture
Norwalk
Conn
J. J. H. Gregory
Marblehead
United States
Canada
Vermont
France
Germany
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Massachusets
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Brickerville
Penn
California
Lucerne
C. C
Thomas
Red Woods
San Francisco
Santa Barbara
Cal
Exux Suaves
Henrico County
P. O. Josefsa H. Bresey, Sr
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