Potatoes Yielded 1400 Bushels per Acre in Early English Trials
In ARROUND THE FARM, M HOVEY recounts historic experiments on potato culture. He cites Perkins of Brookline who produced 274 pounds of potatoes from 18 ounces of seed, estimating over 1400 bushels per acre. Earlier English and Massachusetts tests showed large yields and noted cultivation methods and costs. He remarks on soil depth, manuring, and hill cultivation as factors for future field gains.
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5. G. Perkins
Brookline
Mass
Boston
Ve Beginney
Ivard College
Massachusetts Society For the Promotion of Agriculture
Perkins
J. Hovey
Thomas Andrew Knight
Royal Horticultura Society of London
Iss
Knight
Massachusetts Agriultural Society
William Carter
Iicheurg
Worcester
Payson Willias
Fitchburg
Payson
Arter
Williams
Looking Ahead for Exes and Egg Scarcity in Winter
Winter poultry outlook warns of egg scarcity and high prices as hens lay poorly. Farmers urged to act now by breeding early laying hens and selecting hardy varieties in fall to boost next winter’s supply. Strong emphasis on maintaining stock and avoiding delayed planning for better future output.
Grafting and Budding Guide for Fruit Trees
A practical 19th century guide on grafting and budding fruit trees suitable for American farms. It lists propagation methods by tree, from apples and pears to grapes and berries, with notes on timing, regional differences, and an instruction on wax coating for protective, outdoor grafting work.
Breeding Mare Care and Colt Rearing Advised in Farm Journal
The article urges careful spring supervision of breeding mares and proper feeding for mares and foals. It warns against overwork, emphasizes adequate milk, and recommends grass pastures at foaling. Proper stall housing, monitoring milk, and balanced rations with oats, bran, and oil meal are stressed to prevent weak colts and leg defects.
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Farm Journal
The Farm and Village Garden Plan Update
If strawberries are heavily mulched some mulch should be removed and placed between rows. The sooner this is done the better. The goal is to carefully arrange and simplify garden tax, optimize time and labor, and plant in a streamlined direction.
Practical gardening tips from Farm Journal excerpt
The author argues for focused crops suited to soil and family needs, warns against multiple varieties, and suggests planting early and late varieties together for succession. Advice covers shallow seed beds two inches deep to encourage many small roots, caretaker watering, pruning canes near roots, and delaying fruiting a cane plant to strengthen roots for next season. It also notes sowing celery early in hot beds and sowing outdoors in early April.
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Farm Journal
Early Gardening and the Best Varieties for Early Crops
This Rural New Yorker excerpt explains early garden planting with soil readiness, seed drills, sand mulch for carrots and parsnips, and selecting varieties for peas, beets, spinach, radishes, and onions. It also shares a detailed milk delivery business accounting method by a farm owner, showing how strict record keeping reduced losses and protected both owner and honest workers.
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Wood
Cleveland
New Yorker
Alaska
Henderson
Crawford
Maple sugar farming profits from a 100 tree bush
Ohio Farmer outlines profitable maple syrup production from a 100 tree bush, with past yields from 225 to 375 gallons and earnings up to 196.97 dollars over eight years. Recommends tin pails, sap management, and modern evaporators, stressing careful handling, cooling, sealing, and branding to ensure quality and market trust.
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Mike
Post
Ohio
Milk delivery in small towns hinges on reliable local help
In tight towns where residents rely on hired assistance, establish a dependable milk delivery system. Focus on consistent routes, clear communication, and responsive service to ensure timely, quality dairy from producer to doorstep. Build trust with customers and adapt to seasonal demand.
Early glass greenhouses and hotbeds for lettuce production
In Hampden County Massachusetts the Tribune describes retrofitted glass beds using two inch planks and leaves for frost protection, detailing hotbed construction, steam heating trials, costs, and the shift from hot manure to steam. It notes temperatures, plant tolerances, and practical guidance for amateurs versus small operators.
Horizontal training for grape vines and trellis benefits
Added years of experience prove horizontal training superior as we replace erect trellis with flat ones seven feet high or more. Thrips pests are controlled by syringes or kerosene emulsion. water suffices, grapes fruit better under foliage and are easier to bag or defend from birds. Canes need spacing and tying, trellis width should be about three feet for long rows. A trellis makes an appealing awning for lower windows, shading the house and cooling interior. Vines enjoy heat reflection from walls and moist conditions, producing lush shade and fruit, especially Turban Hubbard and Murrow varieties.
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Litural
New Yorker
United States
Vul
Weill
Nort
Ayers
Squashes in Home Gardens How to Grow and Protect Crops
The article describes growing summer squashes in cool springs, with two varieties, Crook-neck and Scalloped. It covers transplant timing, intercropping between early crops, soil enrichment, careful cultivation, and harvesting before frost. It warns on pests like inserts, squash bugs, and borers, and offers methods to deter or manage them, plus guidance on storage and yield expectations.
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Savannah
Norfolk
Birds Versus Fruit Growers In Garden Advice
The piece weighs pros and cons of birds in gardens and argues for letting birds help in flower beds while warning fruit and vegetable plots rely on nets and careful soil. It details deep rich soil, sunlight for fruits, blanching vegetables, and asparagus bed preparation with deep trenching, dung, and careful bed spacing. It notes variations in sowing times post frost and cautions against early planting of tender crops.
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United States
Gambling in Futures Only
Dr. Dixon Lewiston’s city physician heads toward South Leeds to fetch a nurse but finds roads impassable. He turns back after attempting to break through slick, trackless terrain. In a farmyard, a sunlit man near a wood pile comments on road work and the upcoming town meeting, cautioning the doctor to stay put.
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Lewiston
Dixon
Leeds
Ull
Where Andrew Was at 2 A. M.
A Concord man recalls a wartime anecdote about Governor Andrew of Massachusetts. The informant, in charge of telegraphing in Boston, visited Andrew at his State House office until two in the morning, as his wife stated that the governor was always there, and they indeed were.
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Andrew
Concord Monitor
Concord
Massachusetts
Boston
State House
Mistress and Cat Scene Sparks House Comedy
In a lively exchange from the Argosy, Babette explains the cat keeps tearing the chair’s plush. The mistress asks what happened, and the servant reveals mustard was placed on the seat to deter the cat, leaving the situation humorous and domestic.
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Tedden Argosy
Babette
Last Good Deed Ends in Treacherous Nighttime Plot
A young woman boards a streetcar, is accosted by a thief, and saved by a mysterious man who confesses a tormenting past and a vow to make amends within twenty four hours. She offers aid and a ring as thanks, while the saver vanishes into darkness. In Union Square a staged confrontation unfolds as two criminals mock the tale and plan their next crime.
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University Place
Aunt’s
Fred
Washington Place
Nige
Union Square
Bill
Jim
Moscow Man Seeks Poverty Certificate For 3 Million Ruble Bank Suit
Alassia, an old resident of Moscow Awan, applied to a local justice of the peace for a poverty certificate. Authorities found him and his wife destitute in a single room. The certificate was granted, but he planned to use it to sue the Bank of Russia for 3,000,000 rubles, a claim left to him by the will of an aunt.
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Moscow
Alassia
Bank of Russia
General Boulanger
Figaro
Nantes Insurance Company
la Breigne
Boulanger
St Cyr
Paris
Nantes
Clamenceau
Brisson
Campenon
Freycinet
Hens Smothered on Express Run in New London
An Adams Express Company employee attempted to spare Plymouth Rock hens from cold during a baggage delivery to East New London. He covered the basket with his coat, but three hens suffocated while the remaining nine staggered after exposure to air on arrival.
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New London
Adams Express Company
Plymouth Rock
East New London
Plymouth Rocks
Hens To Be Tied For Safe Wagon Delivery
The text describes a method where hens are tied together by jets and hung from the wagon’s tail to ensure their delivery in good order and ready for business. The passage conveys a practical technique for transporting poultry with emphasis on maintaining activity and brightness during transit.
General Boulanger Idealized as Glorified French Hero
A compact portrait portrays General Boulanger as a rising French power. The piece notes his aristocratic yet flawed character, battlefield fame, and public persona shaped by ambition, vanity, and decisive military commands.
Beguiling the Wild Islanders of Little Andaman
The Calcutta Pioneer reports two British men Colonel Codell and Mr Portur tried to form friendly ties with Jarawa people of Little Andaman by teaching Highland dance. After presents and lessons they claim natives allied with them and welcomed travel inland without hostility. The piece mocks missionaries and praises masher culture with jokes about dances and refreshment tents.
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Colonel Codell
Portur
Calcutta
Little Andaman Islands
Hower de Coverley
London
The Largest Farm in the World in Louisiana's Sw corner
The St. Louis Republican reports a vast Louisiana tract bought in 1888 by a Northern syndicate led by J. B. Watkins. It spans 1.6 million acres with 16,000 cattle and 30,000 horses, 36 miles of Southern Pacific railroad, three steamboats, 300 miles of navigable waters, an ice house, bank, shipyard, and a rice mill, all managed with steam powered cultivation and multiple ranch stations.
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St. Louis Republican
Louisiana
J. B. Watkins
Dakota
Mr. Watkins
United States
Southern Pacific
A Chapter of Coincidences in Laterbury
A local merchant advertised for a young man to fill a store position and received a letter signed by the sender, a stranger from a neighboring village. He recalls two coincidences: an unclaimed suit fit a later buyer with matching initials, and a missing amethyst ring reappeared in a buckskin glove, suggesting the same hand found it a year apart.
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Laterbury Republican
Reynard the Shrewd. A Hartford Times vignette misfortune
A writer recalls placing a broody hen under a heavy coop during a frozen week. The coop, tucked beside a sloped furrow, disappeared by morning, leaving the den and hen gone and the storyteller seeking clues in the aftermath.
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Reynard
J. Thornily
Hartford Times
Lepres
Hen Coop Predicament Ends in Chicken Escape
A creature pulled a hen from a coop on a hill, clawed at the laths and teeth impressions noted, then dragged the coop up the slope, escaping without blood or many feathers, leaving only three hairs behind.
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Sion
Iy Hill
Red faced visitor recalls ghostly doctor tale at drug store
In a Morro City drugstore a man with a red face and white hair sought old prescription numbers signed by Dr LD DC who had died years earlier. The man believed the doctor visited him in the night, prompting a drink and eventual turn toward spiritualism after a tremens episode.
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J Samokin Times
George
D. C
General Kellogg
Weill
Doc C—n
Valuable books offered free with subscriptions see list
A lengthy old newspaper list offers free subscriptions to numerous magazines and journals, with prices and terms. Readers may obtain books like American Agriculturist and Harper's Weekly, while limits state no more than one magazine per address and start date requirements.
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Asee
Villace Carden
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Bowar
Jan Eversten
Gambetta
Little Andaman
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Chicago News
Union League
Committee On Political Action
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Isl
Magazies and Journals
Arthur's Home Magazin
American Raza Home
Andover Review
American Dairyman
Art Interchange Magazine
Burlington Hawkeye
Shake Ae
Bee-keepar
Boston Medical Journal
Boston Medical and Burginal Journal
Christian Leader
Nes
Obeistian Herald
Courier-Journal (Weekly
Chautauqua Young Polks Journal
Rasenak Tenia
Donshoo's
Detroit Pree Presa
Wiseeye
Engineering and Mining Journal
Edinburgh Review
Shbenet
Form
Field and Stockman
Pireside Companion
Bas de Massoncacl
Woskly
M'y
Germantown Telegraph
Gariner’s
Harper's
Home and Parm
Asarversnnew Cane
Home Decorator
Teem Senee
Peterson's Lady's Magasine
Popelar Scisnce News
American Poultry Journal
Atlantic Monthly
American Garden
American Agriculturist
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Medical Journal
X. Y. Soriano
New Princeton Review
New York Witness
Puck
Se Rna
Journal
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Magnzine
LOO
Rurel New Yorker
Scientifo American
San Francisco Chronicls
Weskly
American Art Journal
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Fito
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Watchman
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