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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1882
Page
2
Dr. C. EB. Page urges two meals daily for horses and humans to prevent catarrhal diseases. He advocates rest after eating, outdoor air, and reduced feeding during work, with cases of teeth issues, fat versus lean conditioning, and box stalls for safety.
This Rural New Yorker excerpt advises keeping breeding records for sows and timing litters by gestation 112 days. It weighs May farrow for weather, wintering, and fattening, discusses housing with heating, and stresses mature sows, twice yearly breeding, and careful handling to protect piglets.
The article urges surface application of barnyard manure before ploughing, noting rapid benefits as liquids hydrate roots and coarse matter decays. It cites farmer John Johnston of Geneva New York and a Maryland Farmers Club record favoring surface spread, with depth guidance from the Massachusetts Agricultural Society and cautions on soil type and pulverization for optimal nutrient use.
W. D. Philbrick discusses cranberry culture as a reliable profit in established meadows. Key factors include peat beds with proper drainage, nearby sharp sand, controlled flooding to protect vines and kill pests, and careful upgrading of wild land. Costs run $200 to $500 per acre with returns delaying two to three years, but promising yields of 70 to 100 barrels per acre in good years and strong export demand, especially to England.
Instructions detail measuring cows to mark hind feet, drawing a gutter line, digging a square ditch, and installing a two inch plank gutter twelve inches wide and eight to ten inches deep. It covers bracing and spiking to resist earth pressure to keep the trough at the correct width.
A comprehensive guide on hen turkey brood care, nesting moves, and egg hatch checks. It covers brooding nests, relocating hens, brooding cleanliness, chick care, early feeding, and weather tactics to optimize turkey production and prevent shell and yolk issues.
The article outlines methods to improve milking, addressing milk hold up spattering and leakage. It covers calf management, training cows, milking routines, and remedies including milking tubes distractions and patience. It also discusses remedies for hard milking leakage and teats care.
The article emphasizes strong early growth, deep but not deep planting, and careful pruning for peach trees. It advises selecting rich, well drained soil, shielding from NW winter winds, and using shallow planting. It covers compost-based manures, occasional lime, and thinning fruit for better returns, plus methods to prepare peach stones for planting through stratification or weathered beds.
The text details daily cleaning of cow gutters with absorbent litter to manage liquid manure, inclining gutter bottoms toward exits, and placing a walk behind gutters for wheelbarrows. It specifies stable dimensions including six to twelve feet depths, three to four feet stall widths, and five to six or ten foot box stalls as an alternative.
A Rural New Yorker excerpt explains that skin changes occur as minute scales flake off revealing new skin, causing spattering. If pumice or nails fail, apply a touch of wet carbonate of soda to the end of the tent and rub. the carbonate dissolves the scales and frees the skin.
Separated from those that have begun to germinate, the seeds are cracked before they are planted.
An ensilage method by C W Mills of New Jersey promises winter green fodder for cattle. His silo technique preserves corn in tight, airless packs to prevent fermentation, enabling higher milk output with lower cost.
A Baltimore notice offers a pair of Sunflowers on easels mailed free to any lady sending a three cent stamp to Dr C W Benson 1006 North Eutaw street The ad also touts Liebig Company Coca Beef Tonic as an electrifying elixir aiding neuralgia dropsy debility and dyspepsia plus a house help call for twenty girls at once at 19 Winter Street office of the V E A.
Dr. C. W. Benson's Celery and Chamomile Pills are advertised to cure neuralgia nervousness sick headache nervous headache dyspeptic headache sleeplessness paralysis and dyspepsia. The pamphlet touts repeated successful tests and offers 50 cents per box with mail rates of two boxes for $1 or six boxes for $2.50 from depot at Baltimore Maryland.
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