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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1882
Page
2
An agricultural note discusses dairy costs and labor saving, urging New England farmers to adopt modern methods. It covers feed quality, cow care, and the impact of fodder on butter color and flavor, with cost breakdowns for pasture, fertilization, hay, and milk residuums, and notes on duckling feeding and turkey breeds for profitable markets.
Practical advice on duck rearing including housing, water management, feed regimes, and brooding, with emphasis on early brooding under hens, safe water access for ducklings, and protective ponds. It also covers lamb rearing for market, flock setup, season timing, fostering, careful feeding, and routine operations like docking and castration for young lambs.
The article explains distinctions between truck farmers and market gardeners, listing Jersey staples such as sugar corn, tomatoes, cabbage, and sweet potatoes. It notes rotations, manure needs, and the higher profits near big markets, with an average net of about 50 dollars per acre for inland truckers and 300 to 600 dollars per acre near cities.
The article discusses improving tobacco burning quality with lime, cautions against salt and fertilizer mixtures, and stresses using specific fertilizing agents and thorough plant-bed care. It covers hog bristles mulch and carpet coverings, watering, weeding, and the need for careful seed selection and soil preparation for Havana and other varieties. It also includes a long section on potato cultivation, soil fertility, seed selection, planting timing, and storage.
Thebig Co. announces Coen Beef Tonic as far superior to fashionable beef wine and iron preparations. Professor F. W. Hunt M D honorary member Imperial Medical Society of St Petersburg Russia endorses it. Claims include curing debility piles dyspepsia biliousness.
A Rural New Yorker excerpt describes performing castration on ten day old lambs by clipping the tiny scrotum with shears while the lamb rests on the operator's knee. It recommends a pinch of sugar on the wound and cob-web plaster to stop bleeding. It warns older lambs suffer greatly and notes neglecting scrotal opening and wool plug can cause fatal suppuration.
A fragment claims fierce brain storms shatter a man's nerves and that Benson's Celery and Chamomile Pills would bring perfect relief, portraying a medical remedy advertisement with sensational language.
Practical guidance for breeding mares including feeding regimes with wheat bran oats hay and straw, exercise and foaling care, and handling of milk supply. The article expands into ensilage goals crisp forage variety including corn clover millet peas oats and meadow grasses to improve stock feeding and weed control, plus broader farm notes on crops weeds and orchard and fruit plant care. It notes drought impacts on pasture and hay, and gives concrete tips for lambs cattle and fruit crops with emphasis on practical husbandry and feed efficiency.
Instructions emphasize producing milk and maintaining a healthy system to suit nature's needs. It specifies bringing the cow at night into a dry yard or suitable enclosure.
An East Arlington notice invites applicants by calling or writing to the E A Office, 19 Winter Street. It promises twenty girls good placements at once and asks that cooks and girls report after 10 A M for general labor opportunities.
The piece discusses nervous system impact on skin health and endorses Dr. C. W. Benson's Skin Cure. It cites a Tribune quotation praising Benson’s remedy for internal and external treatment of skin diseases, noting its sale by druggists and urging use over alternatives.
An advertisement touts Dr. Benson's Celery and Chamomile Pills as a cure for sick headaches nervous headaches neuralgia nervousness paralysis dyspepsia sleeplessness and brain diseases. It states no opium or quinine and lists prices 50 cents per box two for a dollar six boxes for 82.50 with mail order and wholesale agent Crittenton of New York.
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