A Giant Beet Sugar Boom Ahead for California
An 1888 forecast traces the beet sugar industry’s rise in the United States. It cites two California beet factories, Spreckels’ plans, and European farming as models. The piece links beet sugar to winter employment, higher wages, and broader agricultural development nationwide.
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France
Germany
American
Claus Spreckels
Mr. Spreckels
Portland
Franklin
Spreckels
Watsonville
Cal
Pennsylvania
Feeding Experiments in Pigs From Massachusetts Station
Bulletin No. 30 reports eighth trial with six mixed breed pigs from 23 to in weight. Over 124 days from Nov 7 1887 to Mar 12 1888 pigs averaged 185 pounds live weight. Skim milk cornmeal corn and cob meal gluten meal and wheat bran formed the diet with a shift from cornmeal to corn and cob meal, milk ration fixed at six quarts daily, and gluten meal gradually increased. Findings note diet changes with growth, reduced nitrogen proportion, declining feed efficiency with age, and limited profitability beyond 175 to 190 pounds. Cost per pound dressed pork 5.44 cents versus feed value 2.27 cents. Skim milk valued at 1.5 cents per gallon.
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Massachusetts Experiment Station
Fall Feeding and Early Maturity in Hogs
Readers weigh fall versus spring hog fattening. Fall fattening favored for profit. spring fattening costly due to winter feeding. Early maturity urged. hogs to be butchered by about ten months.
Manure Neap Rye Crop as Green Manure Experiment
A farmer replaces scarce town manure by turning under rye on a market garden parcel. Ploughing after a potato crop, sowing rye from August to December yields a lush greenspring cover. With commercial fertilizer, yields match heavy manure dressings, offering neat, steady soil improvement and visual appeal.
Manure and Fertilizers for Profitable Crops
A Prairie Farmer excerpt explains the dependance of fertile soils on a reliable manure supply. Barnyard manure, compost, and then artificial fertilizers sustain soil fertility, with careful handling and hauling as necessary labor. For crop farms selling produce, farm inputs must balance removal, and stock farms relying on bought grain may rely more on artificial fertilizers to return plant food to the soil.
Pastures Neglected By Farmers Hurt Stock Bystander
E Emory of the New York Experiment Station warns many farmers neglect pastures and allow grasses to ripen and die. He cites a New York stock farm illustrating better milk yields when fields are mown early for green pasture instead of leaving them to stand and decay.
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E. Emory
New York Experiment
New York State
Timothy
A Matter of General Interest to All Fruit Growers Quince Pruning
A horticultural note on quince culture describing pruning and cultivation practices. The author argues for deep attention to root care, shallow soil disturbance, winter manure, and summer mulch to foster strong trees and quality fruit, challenging prevailing views that quince needs little pruning.
Wheat and Rye Soil Preparation and Rye Profit Outlook
A Germantown Telegraph correspondent highlights fall wheat soil tilth, harrow and roller use, and cross harrow patterns, stressing adaptable methods by soil type. Rye praised as a long term farm asset, offering cheap sowing, weed control, and profitable follow crops like sweet corn fodder, with high ROI comparisons to other crops.
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Journal of Agriculture
Germantown Telegraph
Mason
Pruning for Fruitful Quinces in Spring
A Rural New Yorker tip explains letting trees sun to ripen and pruning in early spring. By not thinning, new growth is shortened to four or five buds, yielding three or four quinces per shoot. The writer removes two to four feet of wood from each shoot yearly. trees 16 years old produce excellent crops annually.
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New Yorker
Autumn Crops For The Kitchen Garden
Autumn gardening offers fresh vegetables after summer, with early varieties planted mid August for quick growth. Green peas, Long Scarlet radishes, little turnip radishes, winter radishes, butter lettuce, dwarf wax beans, spinach and turnips are highlighted as good autumn crops needing generous culture and rich soil. Josiah Hoopes.
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Josiah Hoopes
The Melange Increase of Farm Values and Tariff Talk
A Michican Republican tariff reformer’s letter contrasts farm prosperity under low tariffs with that under high tariffs. The table lists farm and livestock values in 1850 and 1860 and notes a contrast in farmer wealth over a decade of tariff changes, arguing the tariff benefits are evident.
Indicating Age of Cattle by Horn Rings and Teeth
A summary from The Farming World notes age indicators in cattle. Heifers show rings on horns from age two, increasing yearly. Bulls generally lack rings until five, then add rings for age. Teeth provide a clearer method, especially for polled cattle, with specific milestones for permanent teeth by ages three to five.
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Farming World
London
Eng
Selecting and Saving Seed Corn Methods for Best Returns
The article notes central pair aging indicators in seed corn and stresses careful seed selection. It advises choosing stalks with two or more ears, using top kernels, discarding soaked or sprouted ears, and planning eight bushels per acre. It describes a dry room storage method with twine loops to suspend ears for moisture control.
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Jasper N. Davidson
Agriculturist
Farmers Debate Tariff Through a Personal Letter
A Springfield Times reader, a farmer and former soldier who voted Republican in 1857, argues that tariff debates rely on selective examples. He cites his crib and rats to illustrate flawed logic and notes that lower prices for labor do not prove higher wages.
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Thomas Thompson
Springfield
Insect Losses and The Future Of Farming Methods
The article cites US annual losses from insects at 150 million dollars with cotton and apple crops hardest hit. It argues agriculture must evolve toward diversified farming, higher cultivation, and targeted crops, with better soil, manure, and crop rotation. It stresses education for farmers, efficient milking, breeding to market demand, and cooperative stock improvements. It also covers pruning, seeding, weed control, and garden practices for families.
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United States
Maryland
Parsley seed and clover hay plan for improved fodder
A Canadian correspondent notes a farmer sowing parsley seed with clover and timothy for hay and pasture. Sheep and cattle prefer the parsley rich feed, though excess can impair breeding. Linseed meal rises in West dairying. Bell's Messenger outlines a simple ventilating stack design to preserve hay, using a triangular frame and air ducts to prevent sinking and keep rain off.
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Amateur archer challenged at old millstone by Arthur
From Puck, an amateur archer bet with Arthur by aiming at a millstone. He issues a two to one wager that he cannot hit the center, framing a playful contest in a Westchester setting.
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A Woman's Wardrobe on Fifty Dollars a Year
Detroit Free Press describes how Miss or Mrs budget fashion by shopping sales and sewing. A teacher provides a garment list with prices, showing affordable pieces that look elegant, with a $4 balance left for summer parasol or winter bonnet.
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Detroit
Cross-Eyed George Critique From The Standard
Criticisms of Henry George in the Standard mock a Washington statue at the Capitol. A large depiction of Washington appears cross-eyed due to eye work and shows a throat hole blamed on a gunshot. A color boy misreads the inscription and jokes about Washington’s wartime leadership and fate.
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This Doesn't Apply to the Freshman's Blade
The New York Sun discusses razor care for fine blades noting Swedish razors have diagonal grain from the outer point to the handle. It explains that constant stropping twists the steel grain causing dulling, while resting the blade lets the grain reset and restores sharpness.
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They Buy More of Ouida's Books
Rehoboth Sunday Herald notes Ouida remarks that Americans are not half so vulgar as the English. The item cites the author's opinion and public interest in her writings.
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Rehoboth Sunday Herald
Blind coal dealer proves blind men can work and thrive
Alden F. Hays, a totally blind Sewickley coal merchant, writes how education and skill enable independent work. He weighs coal by touch, handles a typewriter, keeps books, and conducts church organ music, arguing for a Pittsburg institution to educate the blind.
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Counting Her Words critics parry Craddock on prose
Buffalo Commercial notes muttered grumbles from critics toward Miss Murfree also known as Charles Egbert Craddock for long winded style in The Despot of Broomsedge Edge. It cites a 63 word passage about an acorn dropping with urgent tone and a roof cracking upon clapboards.
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Broomsedge Edge
Acorn Descriptions Stir Debate Among Critics
The passage on interior void spaces and a rattle described by Miss Murfree sparks a clash between readers who call it eloquence and others who deem it ve rbiage. A Western freelance critic questions how many words it would take to describe the Chicago fire, suggesting Webster’s Unabridged would not suffice.
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Wealth of Charles Crocker Estimated From Vast California Holdings
San Francisco Chronicle reports Crocker's immense fortune after his death with property values in San Francisco Visitacion Rancho and 100000 acres across Kern Tulare and other counties. He owned railroads mining ranches and steamship interests totaling in the millions, with an insurance fund replacing cash losses from fire.
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Milking Machine Causes Cow Escape in Providence
Providence Telegram reports Lewis B. Colwell of Edgewood invents an automatic milking device for a cow in a dressy setting. A cow banished through Pawtuxet streets knocked over the milking rig, with milk spills guiding its trail until the animal returned exhausted. Colwell later uses the device aboard his sloop White Wings to keep bilge water clear.
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Richard Til
Danforth
Pawtuxet
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No One to Blame for Delay at Putnam Station
Senachwine Lake letter details a Peoria to Albany bound train delayed at Putnam. An elderly African American woman dressed in green velvet sought a ticket to Albany via Chicago, with money concealed on her person. The tale explains the lateness but notes it has little to do with the State Grange meeting at Senachwine lake.
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Coon disrupts sermon at Sparta church in Georgia
A Sparta Georgia man’s pet coon visited the Presbyterian church during Rev Dixon’s sermon. The animal climbed pulpit chairs drank from a pitcher and peered from a pulpit window before W A Burwell escorted it off the premises, ending the disruption.
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Pat Coon
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W. A. Burwell
Curious boating accident near Philadelphia bay
On the Thoroughfare near the bridge Thomas Clayton, a guest of the Excursion House, and Charles Perryman of Philadelphia fired at a flock of birds from a rowboat. The boat lurched, Clayton fell on Perryman, and both men capsized. They swam to safety but their guns were lost. both were later found at the bottom of the bay.
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Thomas Clayton
Charles Perryman
Philadelphia
Hey
Ethics of Editing in the London Globe
The article argues that unsigned pieces reflect the periodical's views under editor control, a despotic but fundamental aspect of anonymous journalism. Signed articles, however, express the author's own views and only the author is responsible.
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Respecting Signature Authority in Signed Articles
The text argues that a writer may complain of injustice when edits misrepresent work and that publishers should refuse such changes. It asserts the author's right to control argument and style in signed pieces, with the signature granting liberty to voice ideas in one’s own manner.
That vicious bucket recalls a rural boyhood tale
A Detroit Free Press reminiscence describes farm life and hard chores from childhood, focusing on a stubborn bucket that fell into a well and the narrator’s struggle to retrieve it. The rustic scenes include the cow stall, pig pen, firewood, garden weeds, and the mud-splashed bucket’s dramatic rise.
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Detroit Free Press
Wherefore He Was Romeo Merchant Traveller
A theatrical bit riffs on Romeo and Juliet with a comedian claiming to take Romeo’s part because the real actor is ill. The tragedienne delivers a quivering Juliet line while the lead murmurs a hushed aside and pleads for the prompter’s discreet help.
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Juliet
Valuable Books Given Away Announcement
Public notice offers free books with conditions on magazine distribution. It states no publication for less than a year and requires a yearly subscription to The Weekly Globe. Only one magazine per address is allowed and multiple orders will be returned.
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