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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1885
Page
2
A Kansas Farmer article celebrates hand made butter and cleanliness in dairy work, highlighting Mrs. Lydia Fox of Columbia Conn who made 606% pounds in seven months at age 70. It argues for bran and oatmeal as dairy rations, noting warmth aids milk flow and that balanced feeding preserves milk quality and animal health.
Farmers should start full feeding for dairy cows in November to maximize milk yield. The guide advises selecting digested, nutritious feeds, gradually increasing rations to locate each cow’s capacity, and stresses not overfeeding for safety. It also covers salt provision, labor for herd care, and winter cream handling to prevent butter quality loss.
The author, a dairyman, defends bran as valuable for milch cows. He has long fed bran mash or slop and observed quick, visible increases in milk production, challenging the view that bran has no virtue as cattle feed.
The Ontario Agricultural College report analyzes winter dairy costs and milk production. It estimates feed costs at eight cents per head daily for cows, yielding about 25 pounds of milk daily in winter and about 0.5 cent per pound, or 4.4 to 4.5 cents per gallon, under winter feeding.
The article discusses careful weaning of colts to protect digestion and prepare for winter feeding. It warns against abrupt changes, notes the dam’s milk decline, and emphasizes gradual transition, appropriate grain, and avoiding overfat or underfed young stock. It also urges attentive care to maintain a straight, healthy body during cold weather.
The article warns against starvation in colts during winter, urges liberal feeding with hay and oats, starting with a pint of oil twice daily, and stresses protection at night plus midday outdoor exercise. It emphasizes three keys: dry shelter, proper feed, and sunny outside activity to promote growth and health.
A Rural New Yorker piece extols sheep manure as a superior winter feed and soil amendment. It notes its high nitrogen content, rapid germination avoidance, and greater fertilizing value per load compared with barn-yard manure. It also details handling, stacking, heating, and spreading practices to prevent fermentation and maximize crop benefit.
Diets for hogs over a year old favor corn and water, with milk and kitchen scraps as excellent inputs. For younger pigs variety aids growth and fattening. ensure warm, dry housing and plenty of easily digested feed, with cabbage, beets, mangels, potatoes, and fruit aiding weight gain.
A farm tip emphasizes careful rationing for pigs and avoiding waste. Do not give more food than pigs will eat, especially corn, as pigs often finish by consuming an extra ear before bed. The owner enjoys watching conversion into meat, noting good leisure and solid pork potential.
The article warns breeders of risks to young pigs at weaning from rain, cold and damp conditions. It describes digestive upset, coughing, fever, bronchial or lung trouble, and later October rheumatism from improper shelter. It stresses the need for dry nests and proper bedding to prevent eye irritation and ammonia exposure from manure.
A neighbor recalls buying 150 sheep last fall and feeding them straw cornstalks and grain all winter, selling for a small profit or loss. The message: fattening poor sheep in winter rarely pays. buy fall sheep in good condition, prefer yearlings or young wethers, and sell the rest. With careful selection, regular feeding, proper housing, fresh water, and salt, winter fattening can yield profit and manure.
Instructions for harvesting clover seed after the hay crop, including a homemade seed платформ to improve collection, curing and hulli ng guidance, and protective storage. Benefits cited include soil fertilization from roots and top growth, drought resistance, and higher yields of hay and seed with economic estimates for red and mammoth clovers.
Two years after planting 200 roots with care guided by twenty five years of experience, the author reports results and questions the rule of not cutting until the third or fourth year, noting the bed described near a specific location.
The author details planting Conover’s Colossal asparagus in November 1883 on a 40 foot square bed. With manure enriched soil, two foot apart roots yielded abundant spring shoots. Advice includes using clean weed free manure, avoiding seed-bearing litter, mowing weeds before seeds form, and not moving old roots. Estimated cost $380 with two days labor and $1 per plant, repaid next year.
Stephen Powers describes modernizing old farming methods to cut corn earlier and turn under stalks and roots to prepare soil for wheat. He advocates heavy ploughing, rolling, and shallow harrowing to bury roots, followed by timed sowing to avoid disease, frost, or fly damage, citing yields rising from 18–20 to 34 bushels per acre on river bottom land.
Farmers tempted to roll winter wheat to improve appearance. Rolling breaks ridges that protect against wind and preserves snow, and hurts seedlings drilled into the soil. Proper time to roll is after seeding, when it aids seed-bed firmness and shallow root growth for winter hardiness.
The article notes that horizontal spree segments remain uninjured, but extending downward would not prevent breakage from frost. Local engineers warn implications for structural integrity and climate resilience, urging preventive measures and further study.
An article explains how moisture in seed corn causes expansion and contraction with temperature changes, weakening kernels and reducing vigor. It compares cup experiments with the seed germ, warns against moisture in winter storage, and urges drying and proper storage to keep seed corn vigorous.
W Sanborn of Missouri reviews forage trials at the College farm noting Prickly Comfrey underperforms and is uneaten by stock. Soja bean shows promise with tall growth and abundant fodder, while rural branching sorghum produces a strong second crop and is well liked by cows. Egyptian rice corn yields grain and stalks valued as green feed.
In fall 1883 on Grand Island near the Niagara River my brother sowed rye after oats and timothy with timothy and clover follow up. Harvests yielded two tons per acre of hay plus a ton more in autumn, with alsike clover showing strong long term roots. Red clover proved less resilient to frost, while orchard grass offered simultaneous blooming with clover for joint hay. Stock fed on the forage improved milk and butter quality.
Mr Spaulding describes using fine cotton yarn soaked in hot wax for grafting and explains bud insertion timing to improve adhesion. H Hale notes commercial fertilizers outperform stable manure for small fruits, praising nitrate of soda but warns against overuse.
Instructions on placing plants in sunlit windows with bay sills and brackets, feeding, repotting, and arranging to maximize light. Advice on watering, heating, and using hot water for bottom heat, plus notes on varieties such as geraniums fuchsias begonias and chrysanthemums and on conservatories and drainage.
A long listing of magazines and journals with prices, including American Dairyman, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Garden, Scientific American, Prairie Farmer, St Nicholas, and many others. The notice explains order rules, premiums, and how to begin subscriptions, noting limits on one magazine per address and no specimen copies.
Thirty five years ago I tested clematis varieties and imported many from abroad. Jackmanii became the most popular blue, Lanuginosa candida the white, with many others less reliable here. Tubers of begonias show strong bedding value, especially in partial shade. Lobelias L cardinalis and L syphilitica bloom abundantly as towers thin in late season.
After a rain storm a Mana tee man found a fox and an alligator in his yard. No river is within half a mile. He was perplexed by missing a whale hippopotamus shark and a couple of pent s.
An old advertisement lists Hale's Money and the great Cough cure at 23 cents, Glenn's Sulphur Soap for rival beautification, German Corn Remover for corns and bunions, Hill's Hart and Whisker Dye Browning at 50 cents, Pike's Toothache Drops claimed to cure in one minute at 25 cents, and Dean's Rheumatic Pills priced at 60 cents.
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