Interesting and Instructive Propagation and Garden Notes
A long excerpt from The Farm Journal and American Rural Home outlines practical home gardening tips. It covers pruning grapevines, onion sets, cauliflower, and berry hedges, plus seed ordering, bed preparation, and crop rotation. Cuttings propagation details include bench beds, soil mixes, shading, watering, and window garden practices. It also describes hotbed use, frames, and early spring planting plans for tomatoes peppers eggplant and cucumbers with emphasis on timing and protection.
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American Dairyman
American Pi Magasine Journal
American Art Journal
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Ecogutes
American Agriculturist
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Boston Medical and Surgical Jurnal
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Century Magazine
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Cansell’s Magazine of
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Christian Herald
Courier-Journal
Chautauqua Young Folks Journal
Decorator and Furnisher
Demorest’s
Prem
Doushoe's Magazine
Detroit Prep Press
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Eld and Stockman
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Farm
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Sereeewewere
Forney
Green's Fruit Recorder
Gardner's
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Harper's Weekly
Seeenee
Haix's Bazar Eos
Harper's Young Pi Qin
Home Journal
Indiana
Edna Erenenes
Town Homestead
Trish World
Odeee
Journal of Microscopy
London Lippincott's Review
Littell’s
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N. Y
Vdewee
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al Jourhalywith
Prairie Farmer
Peterson's Lady's Magasine
Popular Science News
Popular Science Monthly
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Philadelphia Medical Times
Philadelpia Practical Partner
Rideout ‘ Magazine
Rural
New Yorker
Saturday Evening Post
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Scribner's Magazine
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Sunn. South
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Melon growing tips from an old gardener's guide
An old guide advises using rich pasture or yard overflow for melon plots, prefers warm sun and sandy soil, and recommends raised hills with compost and fertilizer. It covers soil preparation, planting methods, pest control for squash bugs and borers, watering, cultivation, and selecting muskmelon and watermelon varieties such as Emerald Gem, Nutmeg, Casaba, Early Albertan, King, Wick's Marly, and Volga.
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Elon
Wick
Volga
Propagation beds for early spring plant work
Tom plans three propagating setups to speed spring work. A warm glasshouse bench with two inches of sharp sand, cultivating coleuses and other woodland tropical types. A second bench at mid range temperatures around 66 to 60 degrees for rogering routing? nature plants.
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Tom
Hotbed outfit hardens amateur gardens with permanent frame
A historical guide explains building a permanent hotbed using fermenting horse manure for heat. It outlines two-frame outfits, sash, cloth covers, and straw mats, with precise dimensions, materials, and costs around 5.50 dollars, plus annual maintenance. It stresses durable construction over improvised setups and early March start for lettuce and other crops.
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Noroper
Cleveland
Coth
Wien
The Best Cow for a Creamery Herd
Hardin, writing in the Yorker, argues the ideal cow for a cooperative creamery is a strong Jersey or Guernsey influenced animal with high butter capacity. He favors 800 pounds of butter annually, moderate fancy blood, and solid feet and teats, noting beginners should start with a sturdy, mixed-blood cow rather than a pure thoroughbred.
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Tom
Jersey
Guernsey
Jerpay
L. ] Hardin
Eon the Yorker
Care and Management of Geese in a Cold Climate
A practical guide to starting and raising geese with minimal grain, focusing on flock selection, housing, nesting, brooding, and early feeding. Details include choosing geese from compatible groups, separating gander stock, controlled nesting, egg incubation, and first weeks of gosling care.
How to raise and market geese for profit
Geese may be pickled when mature, goslings can be sold at seven months or kept until holidays. Pasture abundance determines fattening timing. feed last weeks with boiled cornmeal milk potatoes and meat scraps. In yards use grass apples cabbage turnips and grain. In winter provide vegetables along with rain. Breeding stock can be kept long if healthy.
Twenty Year Old Asparagus Bed Grows Finest Crop
J M Smith, in Farmers' Review, notes his oldest asparagus bed, about 20 years in bearing, yields magnificent crops annually. Soil is sandy loam, heavily manured, beds prepared with furrows three feet apart, asparagus plants placed 15 to 18 inches apart, tops left to mulch with snow, and annual spring manuring followed by shallow digging to avoid roots damage.
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J. M. Smith
Farmers’ Review
The Bean Varieties Tested At Colorado Fort Collins
Seventy table and stock bean varieties were tested for three years at Colorado State Agricultural College Fort Collins. Results show high vitality averaging 74 percent with Green Hageolet and White Valentine earliest, Galena and Dutch Case Knife most prolific, and wax types among best sap varieties. Selection improves germination and yield. limas are fine but hard to raise. wax and Sushema Prolific noted among best shell and running varieties.
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State Agricultural College of Colorado
Fort Collins
Blount
Continual cultivation and orchard care tips for farm use
The article discusses moisture management for crops and seeds, fodder artichokes as animal feed, manure use, and crop rotation. It covers orchard maintenance including pruning peach trees, spacing, and pest control. It also notes sorghum sugar potential, farmer cooperation, and practical sausage preparation techniques.
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Teanaporia
Ole
That Soul Bottle of Souls in the New York Museum Tale
A janitor recalls a midnight encounter with a mad philosopher in a medical college museum. The man claims to have caught a soul, described as a crystal-like ball within a woman's soul, and recounts murdering his wife to save her soul. He demonstrates the knife, escapes, and vows to bottle souls, ending with a frantic claim that some people have no souls.
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Herr van Allen
Wees
Iam
Columbus
Ellen
Mark
Van
Manure value and night soil use in agriculture
Joseph Harris argues that one ton of night soil provides more nitrogen and phosphoric acid than ton of mixed animal manure and may equal two and a half tons of common manure. He urges proper waste management with dry absorbents to control odor and boost fertilizer value, suggesting 10 to 15 tons per acre as beneficial, with autumn spreading preferable.
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Joseph Harris
Harris
Bette
Potatoes In Quick Time Planting Method
The author describes starting early potatoes March 1 to mature two to three weeks sooner. Use a shallow box with earth and layers of potatoes eyes upward, cover with soil, moisten if needed, and shift to the garden when ready to plant. Do not cover green leaves. Compare yields with neighbors to gauge advantage.
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Barden Gosip
Erfurt
The
Farm Journal
Fox snatches kitten in dawn chase near cor
A fox seized a kitten near a cor in a sudden pursuit. The finder, Gna, reached the scene to see the fox grasping the kitten and escaping, leaving onlookers unable to intervene.
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Jones
Night Garden Refrain of Lost Names in Chicago
A reflective lyric passage evokes night scenes near a city, with moonlit shores and quiet bells. The speaker recalls past dreams and shared names now drift apart, lamenting vanished moments as time erases footprints and fate reshapes memory.
Judge Edith Oh Monstrous Beetle and Breast Pin Look Alike
A character cries out in shock at a monstrous beetle resembling the gold breast-pin Edith wears, prompting the mother to note their striking similarity to the accessory.
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Edith
Valuable Books Given Away Publication Policy Declared
Announcement states no publication will be sent for less than one year and no order will be processed unless it includes a yearly subscription to Weekly Globe. The note outlines policy on gifts and subscriptions, emphasizing long term commitment and return to readers.
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GLOBE
Law Without Lawyers
Henry B. Corey
Ll.b
New York
Severn
Nemenig
Torney
Gorpor
Losas
The Best Sweet Corn Varieties for Early Planting
A catalog style note outlines top early corn choices such as Northern Pedigree Shaker's Early Perry's Hybrid and Stabler's Early with later options Moore's Concord Triumph or Hickox. It explains planting dates around May 10 for July 20 to September 0 harvest and suggests extending the season by planting Triumph Mammoth or Stowell's into June. It mentions Black Mexican as a late sweet corn valued for flavor but not ideal for market due to dark kernels when overripe. It adds there are many new 1888 varieties offered.
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Shaker
Perry
Moore
Stowell
IN GENERAL. What Farmers Should Know
Farmers should sow grass and clover seeds early, ideally when the ground is frozen or frosts are expected. A damp surface and footing after germination are aided by trampling muddy fields. Sowing on still frosty mornings before thawed mud reduces risk and improves seed establishment.
Fun for the Goat on Pine Street
A mischievous goat roamed upper Pine Street on Thursday afternoon, calling at a house where a broom-wielding resident repelled it. The goat danced on the steps, fled when approached, and caused a brief stir for residents and a passing boy, with further antics on Pine Street and nearby corners.
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Lewiston Journal
Upper Pine Street
Pine Street
Anya Man Cme
Pinestreet
Novel Diet for a Fox
Charles Swatka a young Swede farmer in Brookfield fears foxes stealing his poultry. To protect his fowls he moves them to safety in the barn as night falls. A three-month-old kitten joins him at the barn while he completes his chores after sundown.
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Danbury News
Charles Swatka
Brookfield
Butt
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