Madson Valley Peach Crop Abandoned For Grapes
The article reports that due to a severe peach crop failure and a harsh 14 below zero winter, growers in Madson Valley plan to uproot peach trees and plant Concord grape vines in vast numbers. It notes acreage growth between Cornwall and Catskill, pricing for Concord fruit in major markets, and concerns about potential overproduction as vines expand. It also discusses wine prospects, leaf tobacco quality, planting densities, and fertilizer needs for dense vineyards.
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Concord
Wall
Catskill
Hudson River
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Hudson River Valley
California
France
Spain
Ulster
Duchess
Orange Counties
Montreal
Fertilizers in Two Main Classes and Their Uses
The article divides fertilizers into inorganic and organic classes. It describes mineral fertilizers such as lime, phosphates, magnesia, and potash, plus materials like plaster and wood ash. It explains lime as a soil amendment, plaster fixing ammonia, and ash providing potash and lime compounds. It notes potash plants thrive on unleached ashes and cites nitrate of potash as a nitrogen and potash source.
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W. HL Y
Thumps in Pigs Cause and Home Remedies Named
A letter from Carrie of Louise County Iowa discusses hog thumps likely from cold exposure and poor ventilation. It urges warm bedding, drainage, thrifty care, and proposed remedies including ammonia tincture, licorice, charcoal, digitalis, sour milk, and optional homeopathic treatments, noting prevention is better than cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie
Louise County
Weekly Globe
Simm
W. H
Tobacco culture and leaf quality for the coming season
The article argues for selecting tobacco varieties carefully for next season. It criticizes broad leaf and the Barber for waste and handling issues, favors narrower wrappers with less vein, and notes Connecticut seed leaf Belknap as a suitable option for seed leaf if available, due to better texture and wrapper suitability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
New England
Havana
East Hartford
Windsor
Glastonbury
United States
Connecticut
Ohio
Grafting methods and timing for fruit trees
Guidelines on securing scions early, selecting grafting times, and proper techniques. It covers cleft grafting, outside grafting, stock preparation, and maintaining balance between top and roots. Also details grafting wax recipes and practical tips for nursery to ensure strong unions and healthy trees.
Cood Clod-Crusher Notches Wood Lumber, Instructions
A fragment describes taking two pieces of 4x6 inch hardwood lumber six feet long and sawing in slant ing notches 2x4 inches, shaping a device or tool. The text ends abruptly without a complete action or outcome. The passage preserves a practical carpentry instruction fragment with no historical context or named individuals.
Construction of a Simple Wagon Sled Frame
Describes attaching cross planks 2x4 inches six feet long under side pieces with uniform quarter circle nails to form a sloped deck. Spacing between planks is two to three inches. Chains are fixed to front ends of side pieces to hitch a team.
Sheep for Renovating Land in Old Farmed Areas
The article argues that worn out farms in New England and the Middle States can regain fertility through sheep husbandry. It cites studies and cases showing sheep restore land, produce hay and grain, and reduce fertilizer costs. It notes improvements in Vermont and New Jersey, and states that rich lands also benefit from sheep.
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New England
Middle States
Maine Board of Cculture
H. G. Abbott
Vassalboro
Timothy
Redtop
Newark
Vermont
England
Elizabeth
George Geddes
Horace Greeley
New York State
West
Wisconsin
Holland
Housatonic
Mass
Berkshire
Europe
Early Garden Advice and Maple Sap Guidance
A 19th century guidance piece urges farmers to plan an early garden with diverse vegetables and high quality seed, start with cabbage and tomatoes in windows, and prepare raised beds for onions radishes beets spinach carrots and lettuce. It also explains maple sap timing, tapping methods, sugar yields and how climate affects sweetness and quantity, stressing careful, localized observation.
Garden and poultry care guidance from Rural New Yorker
Garden notes advise safe planting times for corn melons cucumbers and beans with frost protection for tomatoes and hardier varieties. It covers strawberry planting, poultry husbandry from March to April including egg collection incubation chick care feeding routines brooding shelter and warming methods for early hatchings and chicks with emphasis on warmth humidity and fresh water.
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Marblehead
Stowell
Batman
From the soil wpe oth the is made in the buds
Fragmentary text mentions cultivation and buds with unclear wording. The readable terms reference a cultivator and soil, but no coherent event, person, place, or date is established. The snippet supports no definite news item or outcome.
Making Pork Sausages in Eastern Pennsylvania
Hogs in eastern Pennsylvania are butchered for sausages by removing the spine and internal parts, then cutting the side into long strips. Lean meat is seasoned with salt pepper cayenne and sage, with old pork preferred. The pork is formed into cakes, packed in earthen pots with hot fat, cooled, then lard poured over and stored in a cool cellar for summer use or baked in pots for easy serving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Sap-Flow Rules for Maple Trees and Timing
The article outlines conditions for maple sap flow, noting frost triggers flow and a 2 to 6 week profitable period ending in April. It links sap runs to atmospheric conditions, wind direction, dryness, oxygen levels, and snow or freeze events, and ends with practical agricultural notes from Waldo F. Brown on corn cultivation and plowing methods.
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Rcd
Rich manure and soil work yield early garden crops
A Farm Journal column details using hen manure as a rich soil additive for root crops and onions. It links deep, fertile soil to large, smooth beets, parsnips, turnips, and radishes, notes that fresh stable manure in drills can ruin roots, and recommends well-prepared seed beds and early planting for tomatoes, onions, and strawberries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Journal
Early American horticultural notes on corn yields and soil
The author recalls 1877 premiums for largest corn yields under “The Hundred Bushel Club” with eleven at or above 100 bushels per acre. Observations credit close hills, thorough preplant soil work, and seed selection for high yields, plus methods for row spacing and ear size to push toward 100 bushels. Additional tips cover currant cultivation, mulching, transplanting, seed sowing, soil moisture, and the value of mellow soil for drought resilience.
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Miverning Ag
Vand Wittely
Ernie
Ecrum
Sursea
Ohio
Waldo F. Brown
Tribune
United States
Acre
Robert Johnston
Rearing Ducks for Market Use and Home Breeding
Practical guidance from Farm Journal on duck husbandry including housing, feeding, and care. Ducks should have a dry shed, be fed near their house, and returned home each evening. Recommend hens over mothers for hatching, careful water access for ducklings, and a fish heavy diet for market ducks raised in yards. Optimal marketing window is February to July with early broods most profitable.
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New Yorker
At Liberty
Long Island
New York
Yarts
Farm Journal
Dainty Tea Dishes from Miss Leonard at Boston Cooking School
In Miss Leonard's sixth demonstration at the Boston Cooking School she details a Cheese Fondee with cheese bread crumb milk and egg, a delicate Jamaica ginger flavored waffle and a light biscuit like waffles. She also outlines ham veal or fowl sandwiches oyster patty spreads and a crust crisp waffle with lemon sauce and a fried donut like batter.
Weekly Globe Club List catalog of subscriptions
A long catalog of periodicals and magazines with prices and notes about subscriptions. The list includes American and British titles such as Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Garden, and Century, with varying prices and terms. A policy states one yearly subscription minimum to The Weekly Globe and limits on multiple magazines to one address.
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Arthur's Home Magazine
American Dairyman
Art Interchange
American Poultry Journal
Atlantic Monthly
American Art Journal
Casedees American Garden
American Naturalist
American Agriculturist
Manuels
Amatcut
Army & Navy Journal
American Poultry Yard
British Quarterly Review
Blackwood's Magazine
Brainerd
Keadle’s
Saturday Journal
Burlington Hawkeye
Boys of New York
Ballou's Magazine
Bee-keeper
BUPA
Celicos
Boston Pilot
Boston Medical Journal
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
Christian Leader
Century Magazine
Eclectic Magazin
Edinburgh Review
Frank Leslie's
Kimney Corner
M’y
Germantown
Green's Fruit Recorder
Gardner's
Godey
Home Circle
Harper's Magazine
Harper’s Weekly
Harper’s Bazar
Harper’s Young
Herald of Health
Home Journal
Indiana Farmer
Independent
International Review Town Homestead
Journal of Microscopy Journal of Chemistry
le Francais
Studer
Oilippincott’s Magazine
London
Lancet
Mother's Magazine
North American Review
N. Y
Medical Journal
N.Y
Fashion Bazar Nursery
Sportsman
Ohio Farmer
Eave x
Puck
Portland Transcript
Phrenological Journal
Prem
Princeton Review
Prairie Farmer
Peterson’s Lady's Magaz
Popular Science Monthly
Philadelphia Medical Times
Rideout
Rural
New Yorker
Saturday Evening Po
Scientific American
Sunny South
St. Nicholas
Sanitarian
San Francisco Chronic
Spirit of the Times
the Republic
Vick
Floral Magazin
Westminster Review
Wide Awake
Waverley Magazine
Watchman
Western Stock Journal
GLOBE
The Poor Little Girls of Finland
A Cardiff Mail item describes Finnish girls seeking to leave the country must see their clergyman for communion and a letter of recommendation, then visit a physician and obtain a costly certificate. The note hints a strict passport-like process with a price around $20 and a prompt return, reflecting restrictive emigration practices.
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Finland
Cardiff
End of Time Proscribed Threat to Citizenship
The fragment notes that if certain conditions are not met, a woman’s name will be erased from the official record. She would be considered to have violated her contract with the government and would lose her citizenship.
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Rch
Reverend Aaron Cleveland Wit Anecdote From Connecticut
The New Haven Palladium recalls Reverend Aaron Cleveland, President’s great grandfather, famed as poet and wit in early Connecticut. An 1779 anecdote from Frank’s Life Time notes a clergyman named Cleveland famed for humor as he meets a stranger at a brook. The exchange ends with humorous remarks about priestly dress and Democrat address.
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New Haven
Priest
Democrat
Agid the Parson
Judge Mackey Aims to Trace Tribune Paragraph Source
In Pittsburg Chronicle coverage of a court action Judge Mackey and General Hazen's counsel respond to the prosecution's objection by proposing to trace a Chicago Tribune paragraph to its origin. The judge is praised as deserving national gratitude for the effort, likening him to immortals.
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Sisyphus
Pittsburg Chronicle
Mackey
Hazen
Chicago Tribune
Chicago
Woman Finds Gunpowder Mistakenly Sown as Mustard Seed
In Georgetown a woman gardener, aiming for early vegetables, planted mustard seed but, after waiting for sprouts, discovered the seeds were gunpowder belonging to her son in law. The incident underscores a surprising gardening mishap in a Columbia Register report.
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Columbia
S. C
Georgetown
There are nearly seven million illiterate children in US
A humorous remark in Puck counters a claim about literacy with a joke about a prominent statesman who forgot his letters last summer until reading them in the newspapers.
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Puck
United States
Hale's Honey and other patent cures advertisement
A compact ad list promotes Hale's Honey for coughs at 26 cents, Glenn's Sulphur Soap for healing and beauty, German Corn Remover for corns and bunions, Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye in black or brown, Pike's Toothache Drops curing in a minute, and Dean's Rheumatic Pills advertised as a sure cure.
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Hale
Glenn
Hill
Pike
Dean
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Madson Valley
Hanson
Henderson
Boston Cooking School
Fairy Gingerbread
Jamaica
Berlin
THE
Weekly Globe Club
Josse Aessevescoe
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Raecesevees
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