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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1880
Page
3
An excerpt rich with archaic imagery and decay describes death, a pale clay face, and a desecrating curse felt in a tribe. Elaine Goodale appears as the author or cited figure, with references to a bush falling and a life fading, conveying a mournful, haunting scene.
The Globe launches an agricultural department inviting farmers to write on soil cultivation and stock management. Topics include sugar beet culture in the north, best winter dairy cow feed, and winter food for laying hens. Readers are urged to send essays, questions, and answers to the Agricultural Editor in Boston.
A gardener reviews two decades of strawberry trials on mixed soils to select best market berries. Turner’s Beauty shines for eating quality and vigor, Turner's strain tops in beauty, while Wilson’s fruit remains firm but uneven in color. Downeing/Downer types, Crescent, Crescent Seedling, and others are weighed for shipping, flavor, and production. Verbenas and seedling care extend to propagation methods and hot beds. Practical notes cover seed germination, home versus florist stock, and farm hot-bed setups.
Garden notes advise planting hardy seeds as ground dries in late March. Early crops include onions peas radishes dandelions beets and lettuce. Varieties listed cover lettuce onions peas radishes beets cabbage cucumbers and tomatoes with notes on forcing cucumbers using hot beds and advance sowing practices.
The article surveys tobacco varieties suited to different soils and climates, stressing early ripening and high yield as key for profit. It discusses Connecticut and Pennsylvania seed leaves, Havana seed leaf prospects, and regional cultivation notes across northern states and Florida. It also covers rice seed quality, drainage, and field practices, plus corn on sod land and careful harrowing to improve yields.
The article outlines soil preparation, manure use, row layout, and seed selection to maximize cotton yield per acre. It covers making furrows, rolling seed in ashes, and contrasts manure bedded vs drilled. It estimates stalk and boll counts, discusses seed vigor, and advises sourcing seed from similar latitudes with proper storage and handling.
Instructions describe selecting bright straw, husking when dry, soaking to pliability, and braiding seven straws into a hat creel. The process uses a specific braid pattern, adding new straws as you go, clipping ends, and ironing damp braids. Hats sell for thirty cents, offering a cottage industry for women and children.
A detailed primer on wool waste as a valued nitrogen source for hops and grass, plus guidance on planting tree seeds, cow peas, wheat prospects, roost care with tar, kerosene uses, shingles soaking, and lamb growth. It also covers tobacco crop figures, milk fever prevention by dry milking, beans as stock feed, hide dressing, a tea farm idea at Charleston, and potato storage tips.
A fragmented verse recalls Otis Morning and the long days of youth. Vivid scenes of golden wheat green maize and birds mingle with memories of river journeys ships and sails. The speaker evokes early fates, timeless songs, and a land where youthful joy once thrived.
A compact fragment lists professions and animals as hidden items for a readers puzzle page. It names dentists lawyers doctors teachers tutors historians geologists artists and more, paired with a group of animals like donkey puppy giraffe ox and hog, plus wordplay and geographic clues such as Leghorn Beaufort Helfort and a Bible themed enigma.
A long profile recounts John James Audubon born in Louisiana to a French family and rising from hardship to create Birds of America. It covers his youth in France and America, his skill as hunter, artist, and observer, his five great journeys from the Mississippi to Labrador and the Rocky Mountains, the suffering and perseverance to publish his work, and his final decline and death.
Fragmentary verse appeals for rest and ease after toil with imagery of hedges winds and woods. A later passage discusses indigestion and remedy claims, noting relief from persistent pain after meals with a claimed permanent cure through ongoing use of a product, mentioning Simimona Liver.
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