The Care of Children and Remedies for Ills
A detailed early guidance piece on child care stressing proper feeding preparation over quantity, avoiding hot bread coffee and spice, and the role of sleep and sunlight. It warns against overfeeding and improper nursing, offers home remedies for croup and diarrhea, cautions about ear and deafness issues, and emphasizes early bed and disciplined routines for healthy growth. It also includes advice on nursing training and critiques of impulsive household care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
Around the Farm Department Opens for Reader Questions
A new farm correspondence page invites contributions from farmers across the country. Readers may inquire on agriculture, crops, stock, dairy, and farm life, with replies from competent agricultural authorities. Use one side of the sheet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tok Wrekiy Guore
Boston
Mass
The Dairy and Dairy Breeds and Tobacco Culture
A long survey contrasts dairy cattle breeds with emphasis on milking efficiency and the shorthorn legacy, notes crossbreeding pitfalls, and stresses winter milk and shelter, fodder, and thoroughbred stock. It also details tropical tobacco culture, seed origin, soil, harvesting, curing, and market prep for Connecticut and Massachusetts growers.
The Poultry Yard Fattening Turkeys For Market
The season approaches for turkeys with tender flesh and good price. Many growers falsely starve birds then cram them for market. Experience shows liberal feeding from hatch to sale yields the most flesh and juiciness. Continue corn and oatmeal as staple fare with occasional changes until finishing. Variety of diet advised.
Farm animals health guide urges farmers to know normal signs
A health and disease primer for farmers outlines how to observe cattle, horses, and sheep to detect early illness. It details normal pulse rates, breathing, temperature, and physical cues such as muzzle moisture and skin texture, urging farmers to study animals daily to spot deviations and treat promptly.
Harvesting Carrots and Wheat Market Outlook
The article outlines a simple carrot harvesting method using a spade and row-by-row lifting, plus a detailed plan for winter storage in shallow trenches, straw layering, and ventilation to keep roots fresh. It then discusses wheat production estimates across the U S, regional yields, and export projections for the coming year, with figures from Delmar and the New York Produce Exchange, and notes on European demand and famine in Northern Africa. It ends with best protection practices for winter wheat focusing on soil preparation, weed control, and timing of straw mulching and manure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey
Guernsey
Havana
Vuelta Abajo
Yara
Iland
Oiventimes
Virginia
Kentucky
Connecticut
New Yorker
Kansas
Min
Ohio
Towa
Indiana
Alexander Delmar
The
Times
Ogden
New York Produce Exchange
Russia
Roumania
Canada
Australia
Europe
England
France
Africa
Algeria
Italy
Michigan
Farm Animals as a Study for Farmers
Farmers should study livestock to better judge location, treatment, and timely help. Knowing flock and herd behavior lets a farmer summon sheep, herd beasts, and guide horses and cattle, aiding both health observation and disease treatment.
Wheat market outlook grows more bullish amid European shortfalls
The piece argues wheat prices must rise as European crops underperform and domestic demand remains firm. It cites England’s 30 percent shortfall, other regions’ surpluses and deficits, and expert estimates showing price pressure in favor of sellers as buyers adjust to higher futures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Eld
England
China
West Indies
Austro-Hungary
Germany
Spain
Portugal
Holland
Atlantic
Great Britain
Miscellany of quirky notes and old-time facts
A collage of curiosities and claims from early press: grants and studies, a $150,000 yearly paper savings, currency jokes, chestnut worm versus French snail, Allentown furnaces in full blast, flood tide references, Ute chief Ouray’s bank account, a Wilmington machinist’s two horseshoes per second, Alfonso’s silver dress wedding, Horace Greeley’s daughters and land offers, US cheese beef and grapes to Europe, advertising fortunes, Sankey hymns in native tongue, and Brooklyn Eagle quips on hymn tongues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant
Daily Telegraph
Cincinnati
Allentown
Penn
Picayune
Ouray
Utes
Deriver
George Pyle
Wilmington
Del
Alfonso
Horace Greeley
Virginia
United States
England
Germany
France
R. W. Pierce
Buffalo
Congress
Sankey
Brooklyn Eagle
Also Mentioned on This Page
Beamer
Bonner
Rarus
Dexter
Jay Gould
Souk Goldsmith Maid
Lady Thorn
Socrates
Lucy
Tatuler
Rosalind
General Knox
DGB
Richmond
Ind
Havre
Collings
Mr. Bates
British Dairy Farming Association
Finley Dun
Hugh
Midland
London
Scotland
Ayrshires
Edinburgh
Dun
Farm Journal
Florida
St. Domingo
Cuba
Perique
St. James Parish
Louisiana
Connecticut Valley
Vegas
Massachusetts
Hampshire
Hampden
Hartford
Wisconsin
Maryland
Turkey
Caird
Scott
London Times
Ashers
Egypt
India
Republican
Black Sea
Union
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