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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1882
Page
2
Practical guidance on economical barnyard manure handling, top dressing and soil improvement with clover sods, fall application, and winter spreading. Also detailed hog care from sow health to milk fever like mastitis, with treatment steps, feeding adjustments, and breeding notes for smaller, fast-maturing pigs and pork quality.
An English summary notes various methods of fattening poultry for market including large-scale Sussex finisher trades, home caging with milk and meal slurry, and French buckwheat meal and milk approaches. It discusses equipment like cages and mechanical feeders, and emphasizes fresh food, clean housing, and careful management to maximize yield and price.
An agricultural piece urges early fattening of cattle and hogs for maximum flesh per feed. It argues to minimize waste by comfortable, clean housing and to force overeating beyond mere life support to build fat and muscle efficiently.
A historic guide urges choosing land naturally suited to currants for market success. It details soil, drainage, and depth of preparation, seedling selection, row spacing, and pruning. Emphasis is on deep loam, thorough manure, and renewing plantings from cuttings every decade.
This article offers seasonal guidance on preserving fruit trees by fall planting, pruning, bark care, and proper mulching. discusses feeding pigs with rye and millet blends, ensilage, and cattle fattening. details egg desiccation, potato and celery storage, hedge planting, and practical farm management for winter. It emphasizes using prepared storage, proper airing, and soil protection to maximize next season yield.
A gardener outlines grape forcing methods detailing house design with south facing beds and west retarding spaces, ventilation, staged temperature from 50 to 70 F, timing for bud break, shaking vines for pollination, and pruning rules. It covers watering, syringing, thinning, pest control with kerosene oil and tobacco soap mix, disease notes, plant spacing, and favored grape varieties like Muscat of Alexandria, Black Hamburgh, and Black Prince.
Farmers miss prime wood cutting windows due to winter and busy schedules. A cord cut in September is worth about a quarter more than one cut in March because September wood is sap-free, dries faster, and becomes harder as it seasons. The gray birch benefits from early cutting to maximize quality.
Public notice touts Iron Bitters as a remedy for low mood, muscular weakness, and general ill health, claiming benefits for residents of the town and urging use to improve vitality.
The colored statesman Langston, minister to Hayti, touring Virginia in support of the administration, delivered remarks comparing Mahone to historic leaders and declaring Mahone’s "towering strength of mind" in grasping the country’s needs and deserving leadership.
In a promotional notice Starkey and Palen of Philadelphia claim their Compound Oxygen treatment cannot cure but slows disease, eases symptoms, improves sleep, vitality, and mood, and offers relief to the suffering. They cite thousands of grateful patients and offer a treatise with case reports and full information from 1109 Girard Street, Philadelphia.
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