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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1880
Page
3
A lyrical passage depicts a sheltered hillside homestead with a red homestead peepin amid oaks, a grove, and quiet power. Crimson sunsets wash the scene as old gray and yellow tones glow, inviting no news from the world beyond the place.
A 19th century agricultural column advises best seed selection for wheat, methods for drying and brining seed, sowing dates, soil preparation, plaster and clover rotation, and the effects of rolling grain in spring. It covers seed counts, manure practices, and pest control like canker-worm bands and tent caterpillar removal.
A survey of atmospheric and soil nutrient cycles for crops, emphasizing carbonic acid and ammonia as keys to plant growth. It discusses underdraining, gypsum, lime, salt, wood ashes, and poultry manure as fertilizers, and stresses careful manure handling and root-friendly practices for clover, wheat, corn, and potatoes.
The guide describes uniform heating of a hotbed with six inches of light soil, sowing when the soil thermometer reads under ninety degrees, and installing three by six foot hotbed sashes. In the north beds should be two and a half to three feet deep for heating material, with liberal ventilation after plants rise.
Article fragment notes absorbent properties of dry muck or related material, suggesting it draws out ammonia. Context appears from Farm and Fireside, but details are incomplete and no dates or names are given. The note hints at a practical agricultural use without elaboration.
A local guide warns bulls must be kept confined and trained from calfhood to prevent injuries. It advises using a slipping noose, avoiding nose rings, and separating bulls after mating. Emphasizes calm control, minimal handling of young bulls, and keeping bulls away from cows at heat.
A detailed piece extols turkeys as premier birds among European gains from the Americas, discussing bronze varieties, breeding for size, nesting care, and feeding for young poults. It also covers Cochin breeds, Leghorn egg production, and hen training for winter laying with emphasis on practical farm husbandry.
The excerpt discusses the drawback of large feathers when wet causing cold and health issues in birds. It also examines hen manure nitrogen variability and ash differences, proposing a manure ash and bone flour mixture with dry muck to absorb ammonia for a fertilizer recipe.
Iowa farmer shares experience with modern potatoes including Goodrich Snowflake and Beauty of Hebron. He praises Snowflake as best table potato, notes mixed results for Early Ohio, Bliss Triumph, and Washington, and discusses growing conditions, market trends, and rotation. Mulching potatoes improves moisture, coolness, weed control, and later soil richness.
Buckwheat stands out among grains for farm profitability due to low labor and reliable yields in poor soils. The article reviews black or brown and silver hull types, notes their maturities and yields, and discusses uses for human, animal, and honey production, plus sowing timing and harvesting methods.
Practical cultivation notes cover corn potential with good seed rich soil and thorough tillage. Broadcast manure, drill fertilizing, and careful planting depth are advised. Space vines wide for stronger crops and reduced overbearing, with examples from Underhill and Wood. Also a method to revive chilled lambs using warm water baths, and onion planting practices by region.
A Farm and Fireside article urges farmers to plant buckwheat on new land where wheat flourishes. The grain is described as plump and large, and the crop is praised as a reliable supplement to other varieties, with satisfactory feeding results anticipated.
The fragmentary verse hints at approaching spring with imagery of catkins, birds, anemones and frost. A quoted line suggests Mary N Prescott as the author, though text is garbled and partial. The piece reads as a lyrical early spring meditation with tenuous clarity.
John Brown Learock died at home on Dover street in his ninetieth year. Born in Wilmington North Carolina he became a prominent eastern business figure before the Civil War owning or controlling large sporting houses and amassing about a million dollars. A friend of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E Lee, he lost most of his wealth in the war. He favored fast horses and left two daughters and three sons including a treasury clerk and two sons in the theater. He was charitable and seldom voted, supporting General Butler for governor twice.
A distressed voice laments a doll's shattered head and a child's deep sorrow. The speaker recalls comfortless grief, a nurse's calm, and plans to bury the doll beneath the maple tree with a tombstone for Hildegarde.
A fox invites a stork to dinner and serves soup in a shallow dish, which the stork cannot eat with his long bill. The fox mocks the stork, who then returns the visit with olives in a tall bottle. The second course ends when the fox is served stork stuffed with olives.
A curious table claims to reveal any person’s age under sixty three. The reader is advised to give the table to a young woman and ask in which column her age appears, then add the top figures of those columns to obtain the secret. The example uses age seventeen found in columns one and five.
A compilation traces common adages to ballads, classical authors, and religious texts. It cites 18th century chatter on Consistency as a jewel, Rabelais lines, Robbing Peter to pay Paul, Hadrian bath lore, Ben Jonson, Hell paved with good intentions, Milton and L Allegro phrases, and cleanliness and other maxims. It references Charles I era chatter, the Koran, St Paul, Menander, and Oliver Wendell Holmes as sources or echoes.
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