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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1882
Page
2
Tips on hotbed setup seedling care and air control in cold frames. Methods to water and shade, press soil, mix sand for drainage, and maintain temperate conditions. Guidance on early spring chicks and poultry management including housing feeding and profits. Also notes on Swiss cheese making and dairy practices with whey butter.
The article urges farm profit through small hen houses for fifty hens and four cocks, featuring Plymouth Rock stock, sunlit lean-to designs, and year-round care. It stresses feeding and conditioning, winter diet with scraps and cayenne, and regular exposure. plus advice on disease prevention and updating stock blood to maintain vigor. It also covers pig raising, stressing careful sow feeding, exercise, clean bedding, gradual weaning, and balanced diets to maximize bone and muscle rather than fat.
Wisconsin dairy men spotlight Swiss cheese as a leading local product with strong prices and growing output. The piece contrasts Swiss practices, noting primitive methods in Switzerland under mountain huts, with Wisconsin’s evolving techniques and improved knowledge shared by John Luchsinger.
This piece explains two tobacco raising modes, open air beds preferred south of 40 latitude for cost and hardiness, with hotbed or cold frame used north. It details bed location, soil, burning to sterilize weed seeds, seed sowing rate, mixing with ashes, light covering, rolling or pressing seeds, and timing from December to March with variations by latitude and frost protection.
Experiments with potatoes explore whether seed quality, end choice, and piece size affect yield. Trials compare seed end versus large end, small whole versus large cut pieces, and emphasize that vigor and soil richness determine stalk growth. The article cites Tennesee second crop methods and potential for early, profitable seed production.
The article advises watering sprouting plants to keep beds surface moist and resowing with about half the original seed once young plants appear. It notes tobacco seed germination is slow and that if the first sowing is killed by weather or pests, the second may supply replacements.
March advice covers bee housing and fly restrictions, feeding to support brood-rearing, and preserving stores as colonies awaken. It also notes spring cleanup, crowding weak hives, and reassembling moved hives to avoid losses.
The article reviews sunflower production in Russia as the main seed oil crop and notes its large seed yield but poor oil quality. It advises sunflowers as a farm crop with limited local demand, suggests alternatives like ailanthus fuel, and provides detailed guidance on growing dandelions raspberries and cabbages, soil preparation, fertilization, and crop management for varied soils. It emphasizes soil richness, manure rates, and practical farming judgment based on local conditions.
A brief note urges readers to peruse every advertisement in THE WEEKLY GLOBE and to mention they saw the ad when responding. The item acts as a reader guidance column, emphasizing careful attention to advertisements.
Wc L Clark of Wiscoy offers a 450.0 year matrimonial paper labeled red heart valentines and 10 cent price. The fragment mentions a publication by Clark in Wisconsin with a likely dating or pricing note.
Dr C W Benson of Baltimore announces a celery and chamomile extract cures headaches nervous disorders sleeplessness paralysis and dyspepsia in fixed proportions. Pills sold nationwide by mail or depot in Baltimore at 50 cents a box two boxes for 1 six for 2 50. Depot address 106 North Eutaw St. Baltimore Md.
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