Corn Culture Tips For Planting And Varieties In Ohio
The article outlines deep, even plowing and use of a roller to prepare corn ground, recommends manuring with barnyard manure over commercial fertilizer, and reports on planting dates, depths, and yields from five years of trials. It reviews Chester county mammoth, Cloud's early dent, Clarage, White Flint, Parish, Hesse's White, and other dent and flint varieties, with notes on soil suitability and maturity across central and eastern Ohio.
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Thave
Chaster County
Solana
Ohio
Cloud
Chester County
Chester County Mammoth
Parish
Acre
Canada
Pennsylvania
J. F. Arcan
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Silos and Silage: Lessons from Early Eastern Massachusetts
A correspondent recalls failures and gains in ensilage, noting how round versus square silos affect waste, top spoilage, and air exposure. He warns against leaks and poor sealing while advising simple top coverings, proper corn ripening, and careful packing to maximize storage efficiency and feed quality.
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Massachusetts
Insecticides for Garden Pests From Old Horticulture Advice
The article outlines using white hellebore for currant and gooseberry worm, with dusting or water suspension methods. It covers cabbage caterpillar, cherry and pear slug, codling moth, canker worms, curculio, and plant lice, detailing powders, water mixes, and application tools like bellows, pumps, and sprinklers.
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Paris Green
London Purple
Destroying the Pea or Bean Weevil
The Germantown Telegraph notes a simple remedy from the Missouri Experiment Station to kill weevils. Soak beans or peas in water for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, warming water helps but is not required. the insect drowns as the seed absorbs water and the cavity fills. Planting timing may affect infestation levels, with earlier crops more prone to weevil damage.
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Missouri Experiment Station
Germantown Telegraph
Garden tasks and poultry yard tips for spring planting
The article outlines dense gardening guidance for March planting of crops like sweet corn peas and dandelions, advises sowing methods and spacing, and explains root crops rhubarb asparagus and turnips. It also covers poultry care, chicken foraging, housing, and feeding, along with farmyard recommended practices for crop circles irrigation rolling and tomato planting on rich soil.
Soil types and bean cultivation guidance for field beans
The text explains that neither sandy nor heavy clay soils suit field beans. sandy loam or well drained clay loam yield best. It notes that extremely rich soil can cause dwarf beans to vine and topple, delaying maturity and increasing frost risk, then begins to outline California tree bean cultivation differences.
Planting and threshing beans shows careful farm practice
Indiana Farmer notes bean crop steps. Plant beans 18 inches apart in rows two to three feet apart, begin by May 20 to mature before frost, with some plants up to June 1. Cultivation shallow and timely to curb weeds. Beans dry in the row or small stacks, risk from rain. Harvest timing varies. threshing uses small stacks or a thresher for large lots.
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Barnard
Yale
W. H. Zull
Boston
Alaska
New Yorker
Philadephia
Dan O'Rourke
Bliss
Burpee
Burbank
Ohio
Marty Rose
Peerless
Indiana
Skim milk proves nutritious and useful on the farm
A farm writer argues that skim milk, though low in fat, retains bone and muscle building elements and can be valuable for young stock and breeding stock when combined with corn for energy. The piece also covers apiary management during swarming, moving bees, and cautious handling of bee locations to avoid losses. It notes dairy herd culling to keep only cows that pay for feed and labor, emphasizing breed as most important alongside care and nutrition.
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France
Root
Jess
West Virginia
Melange Skimmilk for Hogs Hints Agricultural Nut
Professor Henry in Breeder's Gazette states that 1000 pounds of average milk yield fat reduced by skimming. cream removed leaves three to four pounds fat with most caseine milk sugar and mineral matter remaining in skim milk. milk designed for calf growth.
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Henry
Breeder's Gazette
Nature
Fire damages East Hampton tenement, insured loss noted
East Hampton suffers a major blaze at the J. A. Murray building damaging the business and tenement. The insured loss is listed at 5400 dollars with Continental Insurance Company covering the claim.
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Easthampton
East Hampton
J. A. Murray
Continental
A leetle sarcumstance and a miracle on Sugar Swamp
The Old Settler recalls a curious event on Sugar Swamp when Hossyphat Shaddle’s antics and a nurse’s tale appear to convince a skeptic of miracles. A dentist’s tooth pull, a panicked painter, and a buckskin thong trap lead to a dramatic near-miracle that turns out to be a practical joke by Meshellam Mosier and Gabri Stopy’s crew, confirming the day’s unlikely wonder.
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New York
Crow Barrenez
Toresky
Sol’s Ridge
Brother van Slocum
Sugar Swamp
Meshel- Jam Mosier
Shaddle
Miiar
M’riar
Jist
Gabri
Wild Gander Ridge
Holt
Jordan
Sile
Hossyphat
Squawkee Hill
Ljis
Amre Pesyphat
Oddities and curios from distant lands and times
A column of assorted trivial anecdotes and curiosities from U S and Europe. Items include peculiar births and weights, antique relics, strange animals, odd deeds and discoveries, transportation notes, and social quirks. Names, places, and dates appear in quick, fragmentary form across many regions and eras.
Incredible finds and oddities across towns spark wonder
A parade of curious items fills the page: a tiny, ultra-strong threadlike material, a prehistoric farm bones find with seven inch teeth, a Peru rocket test that lofted a man 16545 feet, a river shad tally eclipsed by a 1827 bounty, and anecdotes from Windfall Indiana to Georgia about strange cures, slavery price lists, petrified lizards, and an eel-like reptile with legs.
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Windfall
Ind
Washington Post
Peru
Murat Halstead
Susquehanna River
Tom Stump
Havre de Grace
West Chester
Penn
Bridene
Tolan
Hunt
Beaver Falls
Kentucky
Abner Purcell
Greenville
Mich
Soe and
Forest
John Helton
Smithboro
Georgia
Mueller
New York
New York World
West Twenty-Ninth Street
Tarrytown
Charlestown Foy
Farmersville
Ontario
Carthage
Jefferson Davis
Fresinus
Weisbaden
Defiance
Nold
Tokio
Lake Okeechobee
Fla
John Lamphere
Gilboa
Schoharie County
N. Y
Mr. Frith
Lake Catherine
Live It Down by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A fragmentary poem fragment urges resilience and facing trouble with courage and honor. It contrasts sorrow with a bright tomorrow and warns against dwelling on past mistakes. The passage ends with an abrupt, informal backyard scene about a man claiming a bullseye in a game.
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Wheeler Wilcox
Magazine Subscriptions Offer From The Weekly Globe
The Weekly Globe advertises discounted combinations with The Globe for yearlong magazines. Read to choose preferred titles and send orders for one year minimum, including a yearly subscription to The Weekly Globe. The list features numerous publications with yearly rates and notes on premiums and new subs.
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News Journal
Weekly Globe
The
Globe
Yankee Blade
Ee Ramos
Aiwave
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