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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1884
Page
2
A forthcoming Weekly Globe feature by Andrew H. Ward promises a long exhaustive exploration of profitable farming. It focuses on crop growth costs and returns, and cattle breeding, beef, milk, garlic, butter, and cheese production.
The article debates fertilizer value comparing market price to agricultural benefit and highlights farmers making their own phosphate blends. It details Samuel B. West’s low cost method using bone, acid, charcoal dust or muck, gypsum, hen manure, and sand, claiming lower expense and better results than commercial products. It also describes a drop fertilizer implement by P. F. Randolph for efficient sowing and notes cautions on fertilizer quality and avoiding imposition.
The reader asks if wood ashes and muck based manure can match the hops manure recommended earlier. Expert notes 1000 pounds of ashes provide potash and phosphoric acid, muck supplies nitrogen but needs alkali, and suggests Charleston phosphates, salt, and lime to balance. Immediate effect may be limited. mixing with ashes is possible.
This piece outlines critical spring care for ewes and lambs focusing on limited daily grazing, shade and clean water, and a nutritious regimen. It advises frequent pasture changes, strategic fencing, thistle control with salt, and overall management to improve lamb vitality and land fertility. It also covers castration timing for lambs, ensuring healing time, weather suitability, and post procedure care to minimize inflammation and complications.
North Cambridge correspondent J. W. Gerry argues for barefoot driving practices and skilled, expert shoeing. He warns thick heels and toe weights injure trotters, and notes many corns come from iron shoes that obstruct the frog. He urges owners to let a shoer work and watch to learn.
Historical notes summarize nitrogen sources for crops, comparing organic matter, ammonia, and nitrates with atmospheric nitrogen. Experiments by Lawes and Gilbert show soil nitrogen depletion over years, with leguminous crops like clover and beans gathering substantial nitrogen. Clover sometimes boosts cereals but atmospheric nitrogen contribution remains uncertain. Incubation and farm practices discussed for chick rearing and onion cultivation.
A Tribune excerpt explains that even with ample other ingredients, nitrogen shortage limits crops. Without external nitrogen, soils deplete over successive plantings, forcing crops to draw on dwindling soil stocks and yield less each season due to insufficient available nitrogen.
The article advises continuous planting of peas and sweet corn, highlights Stowell's Evergreen as a top late corn, and cautions against early sowing of high temperature germinators. It covers mulching strawberries, pest control for currants, shaping raspberry canes, pruning blackberries, grape trellis care, and daily garden vigilance against insects and disease.
A practical piece outlines soil quality for onions, favoring rich well drained ground. It details black gravelly Illinois like soil, annual manure applications, wood ashes, April sowing, shallow ploughing, harrowing, and leveling to create fine seedbed conditions.
The piece surveys grain prices, farm income, and trend shifts since the Civil War era. It argues low grain prices depress farming, notes higher prices for beef pork wool and butter, and contrasts 1860s prices with present levels. It discusses wheat expansion westward, soil fertility, and advocates dairying and diversified crops for profitability. It concludes with a call to study local markets and favor butter and cheese, meats, and settled farming.
Forage crops respond to soil condition and climate, affecting both yield and nitrogenous content. Goessmann notes oats grown on the same soil with manure differ in nitrogen by up to 11 percent, while various grasses and clovers show similar soil driven composition changes. An economic feeding system should align crop selection with soil and climate to optimize nutritive value and crop adaptation.
The text discusses how soil and crop type affect nutritive value for animals and sugar production. It contrasts potato and sugar beet quality, notes differing standards for farmers and manufacturers, and highlights the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture report and the Massachusetts Experiment Station's work on forage crops and feeding value.
A 19th century Sun article outlines dynamite use for stump and tree removal. It describes equipment like a long auger and ramrod, assembly steps for wiring fuse, and advice to secure the tree with ropes and pulleys. It warns that handling dynamite is dangerous and requires sober, experienced supervision.
A visitor to a large dairy notes cows calving in March produce over eighty pounds of milk weekly within fifty days of calving. The diet of clover hay, small grain, and half a bushel of sugar beets daily is linked to longer lactation and high yields. The piece questions the feeding value of beets and silage versus green fodder and invites readers to test beet feeding on their own farms.
The article explains salt as indispensable for sheep health and productivity. It urges regular access to salt, noting Texas farms often under-supply. Salt boosts appetite, sleep stability, feeding, water intake, strength, and overall condition, while not curing all diseases. It contrasts salted versus mouldy unsalted hay showing tangible gains from salt.
An article discusses European beet sugar production in 1882 and its leaders Germany Austria France and Holland. It also covers garden soil preparation sowing seeds hoeing rolling and early weed control. It surveys wheat exports from India Australia and Argentina aided by railroad expansion and ends with corn soil preparation and manure use.
The article extols light harrowing and pulverizing to a depth of three to four inches, arguing it lightens hard ground under a roller and accelerates spring work. It recommends fertilizing with muck or wood ashes, cautions on manure handling, and stresses renewing poultry ground, with advice on grain alternatives and grain machinery’s role in preventing famine.
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