Tobacco seed beds demand careful watering and thinning
The article urges consistent watering of seed beds with fine sprinklers to avoid puddles, then details fertilizer preparation using manure soaked in water, and gradual feeding as tobacco plants grow. It notes thinning crowded plants, transplant timing in early June, and the advantage of muck soils as demonstrated by Samuel F. Ticknor's peat meadow trials.
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Erin
Op Packer
Samuel F. Ticknor
Columbia, Conn
W. H
Plum Sprout Destruction and Wheat Improvement
Readers discuss methods to control plum sprouts without grubbling. A Illinois farmer, D B Raymond, proves seed selection and soil management boost spring wheat yields, noting thorough autumn plowing, early sowing, salt top-dress, crop rotation, manure use, and seed cleaning to prevent smut and raise quality.
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Northwest
Minnesota
Dakota
Saskatchewan
Willamette
Illinois
D. B. Raymond
Lee County
Quay
Raymond
Sea Island
Nillers
Iowa
Onion Culture Practices Evolve For Better Yields
The article discusses onion cultivation, noting soil flexibility beyond sandy loam and the importance of fertile seed-beds. It highlights weed control, cleanliness, and labor-saving tools like hand cultivators, wheel hoes, and weeders that reduce back fatigue. Onions are planted after frost to promote early growth, with no trouble in that regard.
Vegetables for a Small Garden From Prairie Farmer
A Prairie Farmer guide advises small city plots can yield ample vegetables by choosing the right crops and spacing. It lists space needs for peas lettuce mustard cress onions radishes and cabbage and suggests planting celery later. It recommends buying established plants for peas beans cabbage cauliflower lettuce and tomatoes and outlines a one dollar seed list with sowing notes and timing.
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Wakefield
Millet sowing and harvesting guidance from Ohio Farmer
An 19th century guidance excerpt advises planting millet from mid May to mid June after soil warm up, sowing from June 1 to 20, at least one bushel per acre, and using a plank drag to cover seed. It covers hay making, drying, stacking, threshing, and notes millet as cattle and poultry fodder, with anecdotes on yields, seeding rates, and timing for seed, hay, and pasture crops.
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Ohio
A.K. Hubtell
Olie Farmer
Meadow Management Plan for Seasonal Seeding
The notes describe spring meadow cultivation through June, then ploughing up seed with millet. Either mow or pasture, then seed to grass by late August or September. The aim is a new meadow without losing a crop that season.
Surface Manuring Depths in Agricultural Experiments
Massachusetts experiments on barnyard manure placement recommend a depth not exceeding four inches for most crops. Shallow-rooted crops like potatoes benefit from surface incorporation. Soils with sandy or loose subsoil favor surface applications. deeper plowing wastes manure through leaching. Surface topdressing on meadows can yield high hay. case studies show substantial gains from surface spreading over larger areas.
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Massachusetts Board of Agriculture
The Application of Land Plaster by a Canadian Agriculturist
A long excerpt notes thirty years of gypsum experiments as a topdressing for clover roots and barley on a meet loam. It recommends 100 pounds per acre, mixes with salt for barley and with wood ash for turnips and carrots, claims gypsum absorbs ammonia from manure, reduces gas loss, and preserves soil moisture and crop quality.
How to Make Choice Butter at Home
A practical guide to home butter making stresses breed and feeding quality. It covers pasture water, exercise, and cleanliness, plus step by step cream rise and skimming, then churning and washing to produce better butter. The article notes farm tools and methods like simple crank churns and revolving boxes.
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Ontario Agricultural College
Butter making tips from Rural Canadian advice
Rural Canadian offers cattle care tips to improve milk and butter quality. Use fine salt and immediate use butter, crush salt crystals, avoid strong herbs in feed, and keep stables bright and warm in winter to boost milk. Guard against pasture contaminants and ensure cattle energy goes to milk production.
Oats as a Fodder Crop For Diverse Farm Diets
The Plough Man notes oats as a valuable fodder when grown properly and cured well. A mix of foods keeps stock healthier than a single crop, with oats offering good yield on fertile land though rust can appear. Seed 4 bushels per acre, cut timely, and combine with corn rye barley and Hungarian for best results.
Transplanting season tips for fruit trees and ornamentals
Advice on selecting sound nursery stock with white fresh-cut roots and no frost damage. Shorten heads on fruit and ornamental trees, remove broken roots, plant in well prepared ground with ample room, and firm soil to prevent hollows. Mulching helps evergreens. plant before warm weather arrives.
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San Jose
Cal
D.C. Vesta
Alameda Point
Vestal
Kr. Morcock
Calf Feeding With Skim Milk Boosts Early Calf Sales
Dairymen aim to turn skimmed milk into calf profits by 7 to 10 weeks old. Key tips include warming milk, small frequent feedings, adding boiled taxseed, and three daily feedings. Close observer feeders can raise calves to uniform, near dam-fed condition and yield about $8 per calf at 7 to 8 weeks.
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tLive Stock Journal
Late oats in Indiana weather and rust risk
The Indiana Farmer urges timely sowing and vigilant rust control for late oats. It warns that August heat often causes rust, ruining fodder, and advises mowing early and curing forage, treating late oats like clover with cut, swathed, and raked handling to maximize yield and quality.
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Indiana
Early cucumbers from inverted sod beds
Advice on securing very early cucumbers by planting seed in inverted sod beds in hot-beds or cold-frames. Details cover sowing in sod or atop loam, cutting sods into three inch squares, sowing three to four seeds per square, then transplanting after three to four weeks once soil is prepared. Emphasizes thorough manuring, proper soil mixing, and careful transplant timing.
Planting and cultivating crops for pickles and turnips in rich soil
Advice on timing for sowing after June 10 and before July 1, soil enrichment, planting in hills with 10 to 12 seeds, and frequent cultivation. Recommends thinning to three plants per hill once vines grow, and intercropping turnips if soil remains rich. Prefers daily picking and emphasizes thorough soil prep and cultivation for profitability.
Basin traps beat codling moth in apple orchards
A contributor to Vicks Magazine shares a practical method to protect orchards from codling moths using sweetened water basins hung on apple trees. By May to July these traps capture large numbers of codling moths and other pests, with careful timing, replenishment, and maintenance.
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Tom Jo
Vick’s Magazine
Bee Pastures Boost Honey and Farm Value Across Lands
The article urges creating bee pastures to support winter supplies as open lands shrink. It recommends nectar trees and crops like buckwheat clover alsike and melilot flowering June to August, plus shade trees such as linden box elder and honey locust. It argues bee pastures will rise with farmers’ effort and yield rich returns.
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Anna
Effects of milk handling on cream and butter yield in England
Investigations by Professor Ford reported in the Agricultural Gazette show shaking milk before setting delays cream separation, while premature cooling reduces butter yield. Comparisons of transport and cooling methods reveal lower yields with colder pre set milk, with a recovery method found by warming to about 104 before setting.
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Ford
England
Agricultural Gazette
Early grapery vermin advice from tobacconists
The message urges burning odds and ends of tobacco to kill vermin in grapery, noting it is a delicate period for young vines. It warns care is needed to avoid damaging vines while using ice pests. smoking is advised regardless of their presence, though the text ends abruptly.
Grape Growing Cautions for Mildew and Sulphur Use
Advice warns early appearance of mildew protection through timely spraying and sulfur use. Do not burn sulfur fumes to avoid leaf burn. spray vines and soil inside glass structures twice or thrice daily when ripening approaches. Experienced growers know misuse harms leaves and fruit.
A Supply of Grapes Why Not
A Prairie Farmer sourced guide promotes grape growing in urban and rural settings. It covers simple planting, soil, sun, and mulch needs, field layout, and intercropping between rows. It discusses stake versus trellis support and highlights Concord, Moore's Early, Concord, Brighton, Vergennes, Niagara, and Pocklington varieties.
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Moore
Brighton
Vergennes
Niagara and Pocklington
Prairie Farmer
Practical Farmers' Tips on Grafting Wax and Orchard Care
Agricultural notes urge making a simple grafting wax from linseed oil beeswax and resin for all seasons. It covers tools for cane removal, flock management, and wool washing shifts, plus fruit tree care, wind-breaks, soil moisture, and early sowing. Also includes bee wintering cautions, pasture grasses, dairy margins, and a cabbage worm remedy using ice cold water.
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Professor Arnold
American Bee Journal
Bee Journal
C.H. Erwin
W. Riley
Mr. Erwin
Erwin
Hints to Good Health on Typhus Fever
A 19th century health bulletin outlines typhus fever, its sources in slums, and its spread via ships. It notes 20 cases by January 8, high contagion yet require close contact, with mortality rising after age 60. It describes hospital exposure, housing conditions, seasonal timing, and limited medical treatment to palliate symptoms.
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New York City
West Side
England
Scotland
Ireland
Europe
Bellevue Hospital
Liverpool
Tropics
Care of the Feet and Sleep with Open Windows
Advice on foot care for poor circulation and cold feet includes soaking, glycerine treatments, and carbolic acid for odor. Emphasizes proper boot fit, avoiding pressure on the big toe joint, and regular cleaning to prevent corns and infections. Also debates sleeping with open windows, warning of night humidity, cold drafts, and disease risk, advising caution for delicate individuals.
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Dio Lewis
Medical and Surgical Reporter
Fragmentary quote on a life of misery and self-destruction
A melancholy reflection questions a person whose life is deemed a failure in both joy and usefulness. It notes this individual consuming trash three times daily to sustain their burning suffering, highlighting ongoing self-inflicted pain.
Phoebe's Queer Story in Civil War Plans by Anna Elea roll
In St. Louis Miss Couzins describes Anna Elearoll, a writer who influenced the Tennessee campaign with proposed river maneuvering. Her plans aided Union strategy after Washington received them, but Lincoln and Seward were assassinated before recognition. Now paralyzed in Baltimore, she relies on a public fund and potential congressional relief.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Washington
Miss Couzins
Tennessee
Anna Elearoll
St. Louis
Lincoln
West
Mississippi
Everett House
Mussel Shoals
Memphis
Charleston
Seward
Congress
Baltimore
Cleveland
Doing Snacks in the Plague Era from Leeds Mercury
During London’s great plague of 1656 a notorious body searcher named Snacks plundered dead men’s clothes. The disease’s spread boosted his business, and he offered half his profits to helpers, who were said to accompany Snacks.
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Leeds
Eng
London
Patent medicines and cures advertised in 19th century catalog
An реклам list of patent remedies including Hale's Honey cough cure at 25 cents, Glenn's Sulphur Soap with beautifying claims, German Corn Remover for corns and bunions, Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye, Pike's Toothache Drops in 1 minute, and Dean's Rheumatic Pills priced around 50 cents.
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Hale
Glenn
Hill
Pike
Dean
The Weekly Globe Club List and Subscriptions
A compact catalogue style notice listing numerous periodicals and magazines available through The Weekly Globe. It outlines subscription costs, start issues, and ordering rules, noting limits on multiple magazines per address and the requirement to specify the starting issue.
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Sunday School Times
Sunny South
St. Nicholas
Sanitarian
San Francisco Chronicle
Spirit of the Times
the Republic Avish-Amer the Clue
Desesseees Turf
Vick’s Floral Magazine
Westminster Review
Wide Awake
Waverley Magazine
Watchman
Wees Bog Western Stock Journal
GLOBE
Magazin
Spe
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American Dairyman
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American Poultry Journal
Atlantic Monthly
American Art Journal
American Garden
American Naturalist
American Agriculturist
Army & Navy Journal
American Poultry Yard
British Quarterly Review
Blackwood
Brainerd
Beadle
Burnington Hawkeye
Boys of New York
Ballou
Beekesper
Baby Land
Boston Pilot
Boston Medical Journal
Boston Medical and Surgic Christian Leader
Century Magazine
Cottage Hearth
E Green
Fruit Recorder
Gardner's Monthly
Godey
Home Circle
Harper’s Magazine
Harper's Weekly
Harper's Bazar
Harper's Young Herald of Health
Home Journal
Indiana Farmer, Independent
International Re
Iowa Homestead
Journal of Microscop Journal of Chemistry
le Francais
Stude
Pi Lippincott’s Magazine
London Lancet
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Methodist
Esceees
Sesee
Americansto Mining Record
Mother’s Magazine
Fashion Bazar
Connecticut Farmer
Chicago Advance
Christian Herald
Eeve
N.Y
N. Y
Sportsman Ohio Farmer
Princeton Review
Peterson’s
Lady's Magazin
Philadelphia Medical Time
Rideout's
New Yorker
Saturday Evening Post Demorest
Donahoe’s Magazine
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Feeney's Progress
Cseccesvesseeee
M’y
Forest and Stream
Puck
Portland Transcript
Popular Science Monthly
Produce Exchange
Scientific American
Jeter Ree
Ent
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Las of
Aan
Oor
Ba Li
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