Exchange May for Grain to Feed with Straw and Cornstalks
Colonel F. B. L. Curtis describes wintering Kirby Homestead stock on straw and cornstalks with limited grain. He details feeding mixes for horses oxen cows calves and fat cattle, noting cost savings, improved milk output, and the value of straw as bedding and manure driver, advocating straw-first feeding over hay.
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Mar St
Amore
Sian Born
FB. L. Curtis
The
Tribune
Silk Culture Prospects in the United States
The article argues a bright future for American silk culture driven by rising demand, domestic production growth, and falling European silk supply. It notes massive import value, a shift of 200 mills toward home manufacture, and a potential $10,000,000 home silk market, with strong roles for women and the Women's Silk Culture Association. It highlights exhibitions, training programs, and regional efforts from Philadelphia to the South, including New Orleans, as signs of a revived industry.
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United States
Puestie
Europe
Aisa
Eges
Sek
United Biaites
South
Wesei
BUK Culture Association
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Women's Association
New Orleans
Scientific American
Regul
Arthur's Home
American Dairyman
American Poultry Journal
Atlantic Monthly
American Naturalist
American Agriculturist
Army & Navy Journal
American Country Yard
Brainerd
Beadle
Burlington Hawkeye
Boys of
New York
Ballou's Magazine
hee-Keeper
Boston
Boston Medical Journal
Metical
Cassell’s Magazine of Art
Country Gentleman
Floral Cabinet
Pere Etensed
Eseereceness
Vorney
Frank Lestie
Chimie Oy
Lady's Journal
W'y
Lady's Magavine
M'y
Germantown
Goney
Herald of
Home Journal
Indiana Farmer
Ceesece
LGU Lippincott’s Magazine
London Lancet
Methodist
Magazine
American History
Mining Record
North American Review
Prgivelyoen AL Utley Sseees
N.Y. Weekly
Sportsmai N
Observer
Ohio Farmer
Puck
Phrenological Journal
Phrenologica
Prairie Farmer
Peterson's Ladies” Maga
Popular Science Monthly
Potter’s American Monthly
Pee Time
Cal Farm
New Yorker
Saturday Evening Post
Selencific Americas
Sunday School Times
Scriboer’s Mouth
St. Nicholas
Sunny South
San Francisco
The Dairy Jersey Cattle and Butter Yield Raises Prices
Jersey cattle production surges as creamery systems expand across the United States. Breeders cite extreme butter yields from select bloodlines, with high auction prices and improved milk quality. Guenon method signs and calf practices noted for sustaining dairy prosperity.
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United States
Jerseys
Jersey
Semanila
Derseys
Canker worm protection tips for apple and elm trees
The article urges universal protection against canker worms to reduce future infestations. It recommends keeping tree protectors in good condition, filling with oil, and applying tarred paper with rosin linseed oil mix. WatchNovember March and April for grub activity, winter protection also matters, and wide tar paper prevents gaps. patent protectors offer low maintenance options.
Winter Feeding of Stock and Dairy Results
Guidance on feeding cottonseed meal and grain to cows and sheep with hay or fodder. Includes 1879 dairy trials, butter and milk yields, cost analysis, and advice on full versus partial feeding, ewe versus lamb feeding, and careful management of milk and garget in milking ewes. Country Gentleman.
Preparing Bees for Winter
The article advises ensuring all bee colonies are strong, uniting weaker hives if needed. It stresses assessing winter stores, noting strong, outdoors-wintered colonies typically use about twenty five pounds of honey, though thirty pounds is safer. It recommends early, well gathered honey.
Preparing Bees for Winter in Cold Climates
Advice from apiarists on keeping bees through winter. Eliminate combs with excess pollen, extract honey if unsafe, and feed sugar syrup. Build a dry enclosure around hives, with chaff or sawdust insulation, a forestalled entrance path, and a dry cellar with filtered air for wintering bees. Some keep bees indoors year round, as per R. New Yorker.
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R. New Yorker
Wheat Stacking as Safest Way to Save Grain
A Lansing, Michigan item argues wheat should be stacked or barned as soon as dry to prevent sprouting and spoilage. It explains two stack designs, the advantages of weather protection, vermin avoidance, and notes farmers’ push for efficiency and new machinery. It cites practice and a Townshend saying about saving.
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Lansing
Mieh
N. 8. Townshend
Agriculturist
What Farmers Should Know Hints About the Farm
Practical notes from Commissioner Henderson of Georgia on soil fertility and crop value. He urges returning cottonseed value to the soil via meal plus superphosphate, cites twenty cents per bushel as a minimum seed price, and warns soil deterioration if not replenished annually. The piece also covers cranberry yields in Massachusetts, sweet potatoes, meadow lands, leaves as compost, and general farm guidance on livestock, crops, and manure.
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Henderson
Georgia
Barnstable County
Massachusetts
Tate
Dakota
Great
Turtle Mountain
Secretary of the Interior
St. Louis
Indianapolis
Milwaukee
Cedar Rapid
Beethoven
J.caird
Great Britain
Lisbon
Havre
Konigsberg
Walloons
FAO
James E Murdoch Star of Elocution in Civil War Reminiscences
James E Murdoch, famed elocutionist, was heard in Boston readings after a long absence from the city. The veteran actor recounted Civil War service, including guarding a dispatch steamer and aiding at Sheridan's headquarters, and reflected on his stage career and later life in Ohio and Cincinnati.
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James E. Murdoch
Boston
Murdoch
Howard Atheneum
John Ford
John Ford’s Management. Mr. Murdoch
Iir
Philadelphia
Frederick
Arch Street
Halifax
William Russell
Journal of Education
Boylston Market
Old Park
New York
Europe
England
Buxton
Haymarket
London
Charles Surface
Sumter
Milwaukee
Pittsburg
Cincinnati Zouaves
Hamlet
Hamiet
Hotspur
Lancaster
Cincinnati
Claeinnett Zouaves
Todd
General Rousseau
General McDowell
Kirby Smith
Kentucky
Maysville
Sheridan
Chattanooga
Lookout Mountain
Mr. Murdoch
McVicker’s
Chicago
Yorick
Army of the Cumberland
Sanitary Commission
Pike’s Opera House
Hooker
Harper's Weekly
Thomas Buchanan Read
Opera House
Read
Valley of the Cumberland
William Cullen Bryant
Loehinvar
Old physician offers free recipe for lung cures in 19th century notice
A retired physician claims to possess a simple vegetable remedy for consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and nervous debility. He says the remedy has cured thousands and will send the recipe free by mail in German French or English to any reader who requests it, with official papers.
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W. A. Noxes
Power
Graves
America
Concord
Philadelphia Negro Enticed by Sorceress for Work and Wealth
A Camden, New Jersey man unemployed seeks help from a black sorceress for a $2 fortune promising a warehouse job and railroad presidency. After failing multiple charms including a floor spell, a long walk, and a talisman, police arrest the witch for fraud. The man also swallows sand thrice daily hoping to prosper, still ongoing.
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Camden
N. J
Market Street Ferry
Philadelphia
Sixty-fifth Street
An Eccentric Economist. Providence Star contested will case
A fragmented Providence Star item notes Nathan F. Dixon Jr facing a queer contested will in Westerly with Reynolds Green involved, highlighting a peculiar dispute and testimony amid early 20th century legal wrangling.
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Providence Star
Nathan F. Dixon, Jr
Teslatg
Reynolds Green
New Oxygen Mixture Promises Life-giving Quality
A treatise extols Compound Oxygen as a non medicated blend of air elements. It argues the gas adds no foreign substance and is readily welcomed by the body, offering reports of cases and full information. Free copies available from Starkey & Paneen at 1109 and 1111 Girard Street, Philadelphia.
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Starkey & Paneen
Girard Street
Philadelphia
Penn
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New York Herald
Guenon
Whiel
Apiary
North Kingstown
Green
Warner
H. H. Warner & CO
Rochester
Elas the Bist
Weekly Globe Club
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