October 1888 National Crop Report Preview
Washington reports the October crop returns show corn near top yields for 10 years with an average condition around 92 while buckwheat and potatoes lag. Winter and spring wheat yields per acre vary by state with heavy emphasis on quality and future miller weights. Experimental station notes advise optimal seeding rates from five to seven pecks per acre and early sowing after September 10 in southern regions.
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Washington
Northwest
Indiana
Wisconsin
Innesota
Nebraska
New England
Cincinnati
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
J. Fremont Hickman
Germantown Telegraph
Ohio
Tsse
Cnre
Germantown
New York Produce Exchange Grain Grades Set by Committee
At a recent meeting of the committee on grain, official grades were established for winter and red winter wheats and oats. Standards specify brightness, soundness, cleanliness, and weight per bushel with minimums such as 55) pounds for certain red wheats and 28 pounds for oats, detailing distinctions among Nos. 1 and 2 grades and steamers.
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Committee On Grain
New York Produce Exchange
Winchester
The Bread and its Profit to Farmers and People
The piece argues higher wheat prices boost farm profits and stimulate demand for goods, railways, and manufacturing. It claims a farmer with 400 bushels can gain about $520 at higher prices, fueling broader economic activity and higher wages, while bread remains essential as the staff of life and impacts consumers modestly. It concludes that the feared $2 per bushel price is beneficial for the economy.
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Chicago
St. Louis
The Vegetable Garden and Its Fall Duties
Frost has ended many crops while celery becomes crucial and must be banked up when dry. Keep spinach supply steady with fall sowings and mulch to winter over. protect lettuces in frames for continued production while removing rotted vines and debris from garden beds.
Thre Lambs Now Is Time to Mate Sheep for Early Lambs
N. J. Shepherd argues for selective mating to improve sheep stock and achieve early lambs. Emphasizes choosing a high quality ram, proper shelter, and well fed ewes. Advises starting in fall, fostering thrift, and careful feeding to ensure strong milk and rapid lamb growth. Better ram quality justifies cost through bigger profits.
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N. J. Shepherd
Growing lettuce and radish in hotbeds for Thanksgiving
A farmer advises using stable manure to heat hotbeds for early crops and outlines a method for sowing Wood's Early Frame radish and mustard seeds in shallow flats. Fill boxes with rich soil, sow thickly, cover lightly, and place in a warm room to germinate in 7 to 10 days. Harvest the greens when ready and reuse the boxes.
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Uae
William Falconer
New Yorker
Grass Is King Says Swine Breeding Guidance
The St Louis Farmer quotes Theodore Louis from a Winter Farmers Institute promoting grass over corn for hogs. He recommends grass fed hogs produce lean and fat evenly, urges clean pens, mature stock, careful sow breeding, April breeding, orderly birth prep, quiet housing, and avoiding sour swill. He specifies diet, bedding, water, salt, charcoal, and quarantine for imports, with targets of nine pounds per week gain and 260 pounds final weight.
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Theodore Louis
Farmer’s Institute
Penn Inere
St. Louis
The Beef Cattle Question and Fattening Profits
A debate on whether the farmer should rear calves for beef or buy two to three year old steers. The piece notes that profits hinge on consistent growth and efficient use of feed and manure. It urges best practices in feeding, care during droughts and winters, and efficient manure management to maximize farm returns.
Calf Rearing Profit Depends Largely on the Calf and Care
The text argues that profit from rearing calves hinges on the calf’s inherent vigor and constitution and the care from birth to death. A strong, hardy calf from a lineage of robust ancestors is likelier to cover feed costs with manure value and yield greater returns than a weak, scrubby calf.
Bee Winter Prep Tips from Rural New Yorker
Instructions for preparing beehives for winter include crowding bees to one end with a division board, leaving small frame gaps, and ensuring warmth. Feed if needed with honey or sugar, and cover hives with dry packing to absorb moisture. Properly wrapped hives emerge dry and viable in spring.
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New Yorker
Winter Dairying Versus Summer in Old Farm Letters
The piece argues for winter dairying over summer, noting higher butter prices and easier storage. It praises steady milk revenue, grain-fed cows, richer manure for land, and calmer milking in winter with time to raise calves. It claims once tried, winter dairying is never abandoned.
Keeping Crapes by E P Roe Method for fruit preservation
The article describes preserving grapes Concords by selecting sound fruit on a clear day, removing imperfect berries, and layering them in clean jars. It calls for a paper cover, waxed or muslin seal, and burying jars on a dry knoll beyond frost. It notes leaves between layers or vines placed in water for storage and suggests keeping near freezing without freezing.
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E. P. Roe
Isabella
Diana
Jona
Charles A. Green
Drisawaustin
Potatoes kept in pits show minimal loss but barrels decay different
Experiments by Henry Stewart show Early Rose and Burbank kept in pits two feet deep with earth and roof boards lose almost no weight over eight months, while barrels in a dry cellar lose 27 percent and shrivel or sprout. Market timing and price dynamics urge close market monitoring and careful storage strategies.
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Henry Stewart
Henry Lutts
Niagara County
N. Y
Bates
Parke County
Fall and Winter Calves Worth More Than Spring Law
Henry notes calves born in fall or winter yield higher profits than spring births. Spring calves stay short on forage early, delaying nourishment until winter. Agriculture data shows the U S crop area at 75 400 000 acres with a 26 bushel per acre yield totaling 1 900 000 000 bushels, the largest in the nation.
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Henry
Department of Agriculture
Ye Pumpkinne Pye Old Scrapbook Verse
A playful old English verse extols a golden pumpkin pie. TheRoasted lines praise the dish as superior to all other foods in New England, highlighting a crisp scalloped crust and the maid’s handiwork. The speaker laughs with joy, cries Hurrah for ye Fruit, Hurrah for ye Cooke, and Hurrah for ye Pampkynne Pye.
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England
Silent wedding seals vows of deaf couple at Grand Pacific
In Chicago the post office man Champion Buchan and Eleanor Patten married in a silent ceremony officiated by Dr. Gillette at Jackson ville. Six bridesmaids attended as relatives watched in a room filled with signs and emotion, the couple exchanging rings without a word as their vows were spoken in sign.
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Chicago Tribune
Grand Pacific
Champion Buchan
Eleanor Patten
Gillette
Deaf and Dumb Asylum
Jacksonville
Esthercon
Dr. Gillette
Penn
Sworn Distance Oath on Centre Street In New York
A Telegram report describes a lawyer on Centre street witnessing a colleague across the street with a legal document. A notary public at the door appeared to administer an oath to the other side, observed by a Tombs messenger and witnesses. The scene suggested such long distance swearing as a common practice.
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New York
Centre Street
Errata in Yankee Blade causes many misreads
The note lists numerous corrected OCR errors from the first page of last week’s issue. It specifies replacements such as reverie for river, hereditary heir for red-headed hair, angry for awfully hungry, paid for around her, spinal for spinage, overboard for sustains me, and other corrected phrases to fix printer and editor misreads.
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W. Bellaw
Yankee Blade
Ling
Anate
Shaw
Herbert
Convinced Himself That He Was Drunk Albany Argus
Michael Fallon was arrested by Patrolman Walker for public intoxication and brought before Justice Conway. He proclaimed his sobriety, offered to prove it, and attempted to walk a straight line, nodding toward jail as the crowd watched. He staggered, nearly fell, and was saved by the officer.
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Albany Argus
Michael Fallon
Walker
Fallen
Youngest Convict Dan Jordan Sentenced in Tennessee
Nashville dispatch to the Atlanta Constitution reports Dan Jordan, under 11, sent from Memphis to a Tennessee state prison for stealing 85. He received a three year term. On his first night a guard allowed him to sleep by the stove with a blanket, as his widowed mother Emphis is noted.
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Nashville
Atlanta Constitution
United States
Dan Jordan
Memphis
Emphis
Playing It Low Down on the Baby
A Warwick Valley Dispatch tip suggests quieting a teething baby by touching the tips of the thumbs and forefingers with dissolved gelatine and offering a downy feather to play with. The baby will spend about thirty minutes picking the feather between fingers, then repeating the motion.
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Warwick Valley Dispatch
A Drop Too Much
A fragment from Texas Siftings recounts a warning against drinking, with a grim prediction of sorrow and future consequences if the warning is ignored. The text hints at a cautionary stance toward alcohol in a dated newspaper page.
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Texas Siftings
NEWSPAPERS OF JAPAN A glimpse of the Tokyo press
Frank G. Carpenter details Japan's growing press scene in 1884. He notes 478 weekly papers and 97 dailies, plus 35 law journals and 111 scientific periodicals, all in Japanese. Editors are often unnamed straw figures. censorship is strict and punishment follows missteps. The Nichi Nichi Shimbun, Tokyo, older and two-story stone, employs two dozen bookkeepers, printers, and reporters. Advertising, newsboys, type setting, and costs are described, as are salaries, schooling, and Japan's evolving alphabet debates and education system.
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Torro
Japan
Puck
Mikado
Judge
Republic
Sheper
Nichi Nichi Shimbun
Nichi Nich Bhimbuno Ofice
Tokio
Lastice
America
Ada Mon
Dn Chiet
Publc
Men
Congress
Imperial University
Frank G. Carpenter
Inside the Nichi Nichi Shimbun Office in Tokyo
An observer recalls the Nichi Nichi Shimbun newsroom with old fashioned American presses, 150 staffers, and a vibrantly busy editorial floor. The editor in chief in Japanese dress introduces him to many dark skinned gentlemen at work with rice paper and camel hair brushes as composing room bustle echoes with dozen boys gathering type.
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Nichi Nichi Shimbun
Young and fair and sweet and slim
A vivid portrait of a young woman described as lovely and fair with dimples and golden hair. The verses praise her beauty and charm, portraying her as Love’s captivating trap and the mortal man ensnared by her lips.
Boomerang Pie Prank Hits Yale Student
A drunken Yale undergrad on Dixwell Avenue tossed a 1584 vintage huckleberry pie at a bob-tail streetcar near Battell chapel. The pie struck a window, landed in a young woman’s lap, and the pie plate hit her eye but caused no serious injury. The Dixwell Avenue girl hopes the culprit contact is dropped a card.
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New Haven News
Yale
Dixwell Avenue
Centreville Horse Railroad Company
Battell Chapel
Up on Cushing’s Manual in a Detroit Saloon Confrontation
A Detroit Free Press scene shows a bar discussion where a patron tests the saloonkeeper on parliamentary rules from Cushing’s Manual. The exchange spirals into a bet about amendments and ends with a sharp claim that the man carries beer tokens and cigars.
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Cushing
Detroit Free Press
Ra-La
Well Paid for His Injuries
A Buffalo rider bought accident insurance for 1000 dollars and 25 dollars weekly indemnity two days before a bicycle tournament. He was knocked, sprained his arm, and after three weeks returned to health. He filed a claim for 78 dollars and received full pay for his layoff.
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Buffalo Courier
To Insurance Company
Monster eel nets three feet ten inch catch in Maine logs
A French worker along the Kennebec River logs near the dam reeled in a monster eel measuring 3 ft 10 in with 10 1/2 in girth and eight pounds. The fish wedged between logs, filled with air to stay afloat, covering the catcher from head to toe in slime after a lengthy landings effort.
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Kennebec
Blue Lobster Arrives at Portland Port
A blue lobster, brought to Portland by A. L. Johnson’s fishing vessel, is displayed at K. D. Atwood & Co. on Custom House wharf. The large crustacean is a pale pink under the tail, kept alive in salt water and is one of only a few seen in the port in many years.
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Portland Press
A. L. Johnson
K. D. Atwood & Co
Custom House Wharf
Subscriptions Offer for The Weekly Globe and Magazines
A long list advertises subscriptions to The Weekly Globe and many periodicals at reduced yearly rates. The offer includes Arthur's Home Magazine and multiple journals with postage paid by The Globe. Readers are urged to write for combination prices and note that only one magazine per address is allowed.
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Weekly Globe
The
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