Evils of Cheese Making and Home Dairy Methods
Henry Stewart describes cheese making from 100 pounds of milk with rennet from calf stomach, varying heat and salt to yield soft cheese. compares Cheddar style heating versus whey-only methods. details hoop and press setup, aging in cool cellars, and scaling to six cows producing daily ten-pound cheeses. Also covers sweet potatoes digging packing storage and choosing varieties like Yellow Jersey and Spanish, plus farm layout for corn row spacing and planting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Stewart
New Yorker
Sweet Potatoes For Market and How To Grow Them
A practitioner explains profits and methods for sweet potato farming. He notes earnings depend on experience climate soil and proximity to markets, citing personal yields of 400 bushels per acre and potential $2000 from five acres. Advice covers soil type planting timing ridge height spacing and hoe cultivation for best growth.
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Marion County
Acre
The Manure Heap and Modern Farming Methods
Colonel F. K. Curtis argues for surface spreading of barnyard manure rather than ploughing it under. He says manure should rot on the surface to release nutrients, improve soil structure, and warm the seed bed. He urges spreading in spring or winter depending on season, and minimizes handling to avoid nutrient loss.
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Nature
Ane
F. K. Curtis
Seed Regulation Ties to Soil Strength in Corn Planting
The article traces farming advances from axe-planting to horse cultivators and stresses aligning seed quantity with soil strength. Too much seed or too close rows reduce grain, as fodder increases. The key point: seed must be regulated to soil strength to optimize yields.
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A. C. Glidden
the Tribune
New York
Potatoes And Farm Practice For Scab Prevention And Profit
Alfred Rose shares two acre trial results with Rose beauty and No 74 potatoes, detailing stable manure use, lime, ashes, salt, plaster mixtures, planting times, yields of 1965 bushels from two acres, and a two acre profit of 854.50. He compares costs with 25 acre results and notes hill culture advantages and early summer harvest. He includes additional tips on grafting wax, poultry, wheat harrowing, and manure alternatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose
Thaaland
Alfred Rose
Acre
A Narrow Escape The Lost Soldier West Survives Montana Blizzard
In Expedition memoir style, West endures nights of hunger and freezing wind after going missing during a brutal Montana blizzard. He shoots a sage cock for food, cuts his clothing to wrap his feet, and trudges toward Yellowstone, later found frost bitten but alive on December 6 after a grueling six days.
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Jim McNaney
Buffalo Buttes
Boyd
H. V
Brown
Russell
Harry
West
Waddy Peacock
Yellowstone
Cowboy
Montana
Harry Andrews
Horace Brodhurst
Lu-Bar Ranch
John Archer
Coulie
N-bar
Lyig
Horace Broadhurst
Lu- Bar Ranch
Elso
Porcupine
Yellowystone
Cree
Fort Keogh
Gibson
Miles City
Sand Creek
Ed. Hastings
Hastings
Smithsonian
Baird
Philadelphia
New York
Milwaukee
Salem
University of Kansas
Buffalo
Queer Prescriptions At A Salem Essex Street Drug Store
A Salem News report recounts a druggist in Essex Street fielding a flood of phonetic and misspelled drug orders. The pharmacist shares examples from a notebook of misread or miswritten items from vermitage to rhubarb, glycerine to guano elixirs, and many others, illustrating vast confusion among customers and clerks alike.
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Essex Street
Ellow
Citvate
Macnesia
Rochelle
Sedleys
Ligairish
Pennyroyal 18
Southing Suraph
Ceeney
Senia
American white oak praised for strength and value
The article extols American white oak as superior to British in growth and timber, citing its use in coach wheels and implements. It notes foreign interest, waste of young trees, and contrasts with English imports of acorns. It also covers fertilizer science and stable plaster economics for farming.
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Edinburgh
Loudon
Great Britain
Goessmann
Rothamsted
Ohio Station
Townsend
8. W. Johnson
Garden Tips on Plant Health and Lawn Care Practices
The article advises pinching tall spindling plants, timely picking of blooms, and using liquid manure as a spring stimulant for roses and other beds. It notes insect threats like rose lug aphids green fly and red spider, and suggests tobacco water as a control. It emphasizes plant location, soil type, and preserving birds to manage pests, plus lawn care: mowing height, watering, weed removal, and fall manure treatments to avoid excessive weed growth.
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Anther
Pa Recollected Himself. Hartford Post
A dialogue fragment shows a Hartford youth recounting a parliamentary remark accusing an "honorable gentleman" of lying. The exchange moves from a cautious claim to a quip about logical contradiction, ending with a child’s earnest, if imperfect, defense of his father.
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Hartford Post
Hartford
Driving a Needle Through a Coin The Trick
A Cincinnati Commercial summary explains a method from Scientific American to pierce a copper cent with a needle by using a cork sheath to prevent bending. Place the needle in cork aligned with the cent on a hard surface and strike with a heavy hammer. Multiple attempts may be needed, but the needle can pass through the coin and won’t be removable afterward.
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Cincinnati
Scientific American
Innocence e Plotting in North End Parlor
A Brockton Gazette excerpt portrays a North End mother and daughter plotting for darkness to charm a courting visit. The daughter prepares in a courting wardrobe while the family improvises with the broken chimney lamp and no spare light.
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Brockton
Jenny
North End
Charlie
Why Do They Play Anyway
After Easter, young ladies plan decorative lawn-tennis racquets tied with ribbons. They store them for the season to charm young men and seem “too lovely” even if they don’t score points.
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H’m
Hartford Post
A Show for Mary Ann in Harper’s Weekly
A young woman recalls attending a country Catholic church during a summer visit. She contrasts it with a city church choir, noting the music’s pretentious tone and the ambition of the performers.
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Mary Ann Quilty
Mary Ann
Harper’s Weekly
The Czarina as a Dancer in Royal Health Note
The Empress of Russia is described as a vigorous, indefatigable dancer who keeps fit through activity. She joins the Czar on walks and rides, with remarks on how heavy meals and sedentary habits can lead to health issues like gout, contrasting royal and non royalty eating patterns and urging activity to balance meals.
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Russia
Valuable Books Gift Offer and Magazine Subscriptions
A list of magazines and journals with pricing and subscription notes appears. The notice promotes free valuable books with yearly subscriptions to The Weekly Globe and enumerates numerous titles from American and British publishers including Atlantic Monthly and Harper's, with varied prices and page counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GLOBE
Mer Art Interchange Magazine
American Poultry Journal
Atlantic Monthly
American Art Journal
American Garden
American Grocer
Seeesesee
American Agriculturist
Art Amateur
Army& Navy Journaliorly
Nowsuba
DOK Bof
Sade Cats
Banner Weekly
Brainerd
Burlington
Xcay
Boston Medical Journal
Boston Medical
Loaldournal
Christian Leader
Sonay Magasine
Christian Union
Cassell’s Magazine of Art
Christian Hosald
Courier-Journal
Chautangus Young Polis
Decorator
Farnigher
Demorest
Porm
Picld and
Stockmar
Forney
Arthur's Home Magazine
Frank Leslie
Germantown
Green's Fruit Recorder
Gardner's Monthly
Harper's Magazing
Harper's Woskly
Cssceees
Harper's Banat
Cssseeees
Harper's Young Poople
Erees
Herald of Health
Howe and Perm
Pooner Ick Ocx
Save Kineiy Focdorus
Home Journal
Indiang Parmner
Seriesseveres
Towa Homestead
TaRa Oar
Ceeheers Pyar
Journal of Microscopy
Lippinosti
London Quarterly Review
Littell
Lineaa
London Tancer
Magazine
American History
Mining Record
North American Review
W. Y. Medical Journal
W. Y. Poebiion Bagar
Y. Oritio
Enees
WW. Y. Weekly
Sporteman
New Princeton Review
New York Witness
Ohio
Puck
Borbner
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Indiana
Bow
William T. Hornaday
Val
Jim
LA Bar Ranch
Meaven
the Czarina
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