Around the Farm Breeding for Profitable Sheep
The article outlines English system sheep husbandry for profitability, detailing breeding timing, ram selection, flock management, and feeding during gestation, lambing, and postlambing. It explains ewe care, preventing abortion, and the benefits of crossbreeding, with emphasis on Oxford Down and long-wool breeds. It argues English methods boost soil fertility and farm viability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Journal
Kentucky
Canada
New York
Cotswold
Southdown
Oxford Down
Apple storage by trenching and silos for winter stock
A rural editorial argues to store surplus apples and other produce in earth trenches, barrels, or silos to prevent waste. It details trench depth, soil cover, and frost protection, plus extending the method to cabbages beets and potatoes, stressing manure for lawns and orchards and noting improved animal health from autumn provisioning. It also touches on seasonable farming practices and a packing tip for London markets.
Ladies' Department notes on stationery fashions and cards
A detailed overview of late nineteenth century stationery styles. It covers linen and smooth finishes, square envelopes, plain envelopes, and the growing popularity of colored designs in note cards. It also describes Japanese and Mon Golian motifs, wax seals, monograms, mourning stationery, visiting cards for both genders, and elaborate menu cards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Satin de Lyon
Relef
Moran
Demorest
Selected Receipts From a Colonial Cookery Book
A compendium of kitchen directions covers biscuit making with butter lard and yeast, squash soup with rice, Mayonnaise of fowl and salads, Pickled Cranberries, Pears in Jelly, Parker House Rolls, a marmalade loaf plus a cider jelly. Recipes emphasize dough beating, rising times, and specific ingredient measurements.
Hints to Good Health and Wool Sorter’s Disease
A Victorian health column warns of the dangers of handling dirty wool and rags in mills. It describes the wool sorter's disease or anthrax risk from dust, outlines proposed disinfection methods, and cites a Bradford case. Also included are notes on fish nutrition, hot bread dangers, and a device by Dr. Huter to visualize blood circulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Glasgow
Bradford
Kingland
William Otley
Mitchell Brothers
Woolsorter
Scientific American
American Association of Science
Atwater
Augassiz
Professor Atwater
C Huter
Huter
Ancient Sugar Jelly and Pigeon Dish From A Colonial Menu
A dated cooking passage describes directions for sugar jelly moulds with oiled tins, a moonshine bread dough baked in strips, a compote of pigeons stuffed with salt pork and boiled to tender perfection, and corn meal based dishes. It discusses making a jelly from the cooking liquid, then a bread and batter pudding with bread slices and currants baked with custard.
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Oxford
United States
Amer
America
London
West Street
Readady's
Saxony
Maryland Biscuits
Washington
Astor House Rolls
Parker House
Virginia Matter
GLOBO
Ae “the Great Cerman
St. Jacobs
A. Vogeler & CO
Baltimore
Ofdy
Wfsumwylm Ol
D.R.V. CG. Mfg. Co., Prop’s
Syracuse, N. Y
Crittontss
Fulton Strest
Havre
Hop
O. L Cc
HOP Bitters Rra Co
Toronto
FsulWé
Renee Y
Smiths
Beesire
Ths
Gray Medcin CO
Detroit
Mich
GEO. C. Goodwin
Boston
Vsti
Ifth Street
Sal Wyly
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