Weather bulletin summarizes last week’s farm conditions
The signal office at Washington reports cooler than usual temperatures overall with Minnesota and Dakota experiencing 3 to 6 degrees above normal. Rainfall was heavy in the cotton and tobacco regions and along the Atlantic coast. Harvest work was favored in the Northwest while frost damage to wheat in Dakota and Minnesota appears overestimated. High winds touched Tennessee Kentucky Indiana Pennsylvania Ohio and New Jersey with rains likely to aid crops. Northern New England enjoyed favorable growing weather though southern areas suffered wind and rain damage.
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Igenea
Washington
Minnesota
Dakota
Ohio Valley
New England
Middle Atlantic
Atlantic
Hatteras
Michigan
Illinois
Tennessee
Kentucky
Indiana
Ennsylvania
Ohio
New Jersey
Proper Crop Adaptation and Soil Use for Farms
The article argues farmers should match crops to land. avoid growing Hungarian or potatoes on unsuitable soils. reclaim and plant land best suited to each crop, including meadow and garden vegetables. It discusses soil drainage, forest cover, and optimal fertilizer use, favoring cottonseed meal as a cost effective nitrogen source with notes on manure value and feeding practices.
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New England
Droit, M. Jenkins
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Cotton Seed Meal as Animal Feed Wealth and Stocks
Farmers urged to sell two thirds of corn to buy cotton seed meal. The article notes cotton seed meal’s rising popularity as a cattle feed and fertilizer due to high protein content, urging mixing with bran or meal to balance nutrition while markets expand and contracts become possible for future delivery.
Clover Fodder Shows Superior Nutrition for Livestock
The Clover article extols clover as the richest fodder, superior to other plants for cattle and stock, especially when cut in proper season. It discusses combinations with timothy, cornstalks, and proper timing for cutting, curing, and second crop yield to maximize digestibility and energy. Early cutting yields better quality and stronger regrowth, while late cutting risks spoilage and poor nutrition.
Early haying advice from the National Live Stock Journal
The text warns against delaying hay cutting and urges early harvest to avoid weather damage and wasted fodder. It stresses using hay caps, proper covering of cocks, and foresight to keep grass and clover growth efficient. It emphasizes being master of the situation through timely cutting and proper curing for digestible stock feed.
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Inshay
National Live Stock Journal
Improved Live Stock and Modern Machinery in Agriculture
Advocates adopting advanced farm machinery and thoroughbred cattle to boost profits. Compares self-binding harvesters with investment in high grade bulls, citing Bureau of Animal Industry data showing wide price differences and potential gains for farms with ten cows. Emphasizes parallel growth of grain and stock farming for success. Mentions dairy practices to improve milk quality through proper airing and cooling.
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Bureau of Animal Industry
Washington
Indiana
Eggs the feast and the versatile farm mainstay
A broad parade of eggs as food medicine and industry. Eggs supply brain and body nourishment with shells and yolks praised from cuisine to cosmetics. The piece cites French chefs, Russian salves, and uses abroad including wine clarifiers and leather dressers. It extols eggs as portable nourishment and profitable for farmers and buyers alike.
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Muhnsdorf
Ludwig
Schwepperman
France
Air and Cool the Milk How to Do It
A Farmer's Advocate article from London Ontario advises two key points in milk care: airing the milk by exposing it in thin sheets to maximize surface contact with air to remove odors, and controlling temperature. It notes no fast, cheap, simple airing method exists.
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Farmer's Advocate
London
Heeling In Trees In Autumn For Best Growth
In Indiana Farmer W. D. Boynton advises autumn delivery and heeling of trees to avoid spring delays. Proper ground, drainage, root depth, and firm labeling ensure roots stay moist and trees start well. Autumn planting often proves safer and healthier than spring set trees with careful mulching and staking.
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W. D. Boynton
Indiana
The Pasture and Milch Cow Feeding Balance
A rural advice piece from Indiana Farmer argues against turning a good milch cow into a pasture if feed is scarce. It urges keeping cows in stables with prepared feeding lots, notes grass can be cheap but unreliable, and recommends drought planning with stored and green fodder, especially in late July and August, to avoid overworking cows for food.
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Orter
Indiana
Study Your Horses Coins and the Sense of Smell in a Horse
An essay urging humane care for horses highlights how overwork, poor ventilation, and dirty stables shorten a horse’s life. It stresses recognizing illness early, providing relief from labor, and ensuring pure air and clean water to preserve health and longevity.
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Dain
The Good Enough System for Horses Hooves and Shoeing
A lengthy argument on equine hoof health argues against heavy iron shoes and the bar in favor of shoes that let the frog bear weight. It explains the frog as a touch organ linked to circulation and bone support, urging shoes that keep the frog functional to prevent corns and other hoof ailments.
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Vis
Nature Comannes
Sheme
Nose as Guide for Horses in Scent and Sighting Tests
A Prairie Farmer excerpt discusses how horses rely on their sense of smell to judge food, detect familiar people, and distinguish dangers. It notes blind horses react with anger to strangers and follow scents from fences or feeding grounds to navigate. Historical references to statue illusion and plant scents illustrate equine olfactory power.
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Amare
Temple of
Olympus
Allisa
Pliny
Pausanias
A Livery Man's Complaint About Women Renters
An uptown livery stablekeeper vents about female customers driving horses too hard and uncooperatively. He notes women expect precise timing, prefer road wagons, and often pay less deposits, leading to frequent damage and costly litigation for broken horses or smashed wagons.
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New York Mail
Paris Budget for 1889 Shows Heavy Spending
The New York Sun reports Paris estimates for 1889 total 64 million dollars with major outlays for interest, education, charity, streets, public works, lighting, fire services, and salaries. Revenue comes from octroi duties, gas and water, cab licenses, markets, and miscellaneous sources, highlighted by Paris’s high per capita expenditure compared with New York.
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Paris
New York Sun
New York
Bss
Republican Guard
Spoons
Police Fund
TGRDE
Panesc Ce Bée Adh Secktecssea Vance Cecsn
DOV Amd
Fédebeps Assssieses
Usgoq
Sweet Corn Cooking and Preservation Guide
Seasonable rules for converting corn into dishes, plus home preservation tips. Covers drying, canning, boiling, roasting, and serving corn on the cob, with methods for corn pulp, succotash, corn cakes, omelets, and mock oysters. Includes notes on variety, sweetness, and storage, referencing Portland and Maine corn production and historic methods.
Green Corn Chowder and Related Corn Dishes Guide
Instructions and recipes for corn based dishes including Green Corn Chowder Corn Salad Corn Pudding and Corn Soup with notes on preparation methods and serving. The piece extols corn as wholesome year round and cites Mrs Carson on using corn with potatoes and tomato. ANNA BARROWS.
How Cornets Are Made In Philadelphia Factory
A Philadelphia Times visit explains cornet manufacture across three US centers, detailing cold drawing of tubes, bending into slides, making the bell, and ornate finishing. It covers valve fabrication, soldering, burnishing, polishing, engraving, and final assembly. The piece notes tubes range from 36 inches to 17 feet 10 inches for the double bass, and cites a bet by a famed musician who witnessed a newborn instrument perform perfectly that day.
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Longfellow
Iowa
Corn Palace
Portland
Isaac
Han
Canada
Maine
Yankee
Elkhart
Ind
Boston
Mass
Philadelphia
Levy, Stoddard
Ben
United States
The Latest Love Making Handkerchief Trend
New York Telegram notes a fad where sentimental handkerchiefs are written on with a pencil and sent as letters. Girls send these gifts to sweethearts but the recipient must wash the fabric to avoid washing away the message. Prices range from 60 cents to $1 each and shipments are compact to fit standard envelopes.
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New York Telegram
French critic on a difficult portrait and new necktie trend
A Burlington Free Press fragment notes a French critic saying a single human face can show both plague cheerfulness and inner ease. It also jokes about a man who has discovered a new style of necktie.
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Burlington Free Press
She Was Willing to Believe Him
Estelle Tine asks what Kismet means and Hugh explains it is Turkish for kiss me. they commune in Turkish, noting the typographical error in the text.
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Tine
Estelle
Hugh
Great Adox Among the Sioux War Lyrics
A verse by A W Bellaw in Puck portrays escalating clashes between whites and Sioux. It warns of war like a knife and predicts bloodshed as tribes resist land cessions and demand their rights. The poem frames Native and settler tensions with vivid, stinging imagery.
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A.W. Bellaw
Puck
Brioux
Sionz
Bioux
Squaw
Pappioux
Stioux
Wall Street Wizard Grandfather Again
A private despatch to Jay Gould released yesterday from New York announces the birth of a fine boy to the Gould family. Gould is noted as a grandfather for the second time, with both mother and child reported doing well, and the message highlights the family joy.
Bothering the Preacher and the Gamecock Feud
A New York broker buys a gamecock and frees it in his yard. A rooster from a clergyman escapes through a fence hole and the two birds clash, killing the preacher's bird. The broker offers his bird to settle the matter, but the preacher now faces letters challenging cockfights from county residents.
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New York Telegram
Consolidated Exchange
Lergyman
VALUABLE BOOKS GIV EN AWAY PRICE LIST EXCERPT
A promotional list offers many magazines and journals with prices and ordering notes. It includes titles such as Atlantic Monthly Boston Pilot Harper's Magazine Godey's Lady's Book Prairie Farmer and more with varying subscription costs. The notice restricts sending only one magazine per address and directs readers to THE WEEKLY GLOBE for publication subscriptions.
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GLOBE
Arthur's Home Magazine
American Rural Foearage
Andover Review
American Dairyman
American Poultry Journal
Atlantic Monthly
American Art Journal
American Garden
American Groocer
Trae Nor
Banner Weekly
Brainard's Musical World
Buglinglyn Hawkeye
Bailou's Magazine
Bee-keeper's Magazine
Babyland
Boston Pilot
Boston Medical Journal
Boston Medical and
Christian Leader
Century Magazine
Christian Union
Seth
Sell’s New
Family Magazine
Christian Herald
Aeedick Ieee Courier-Journal
Saga
Chautauqua Young Polks Journal
Feedebie
Emorest's
Fornoy's Progress
Prank Leslie's Illustrated
Germantown
Green's Fruit Recorder
Gardner's Monthly
Suadons
Godey's
Golden Argosy
Cscees Eee
Harper's Magazine
Harper's Weekly
Harper's Bazar
Endiana Farmer
Journal of Microscopy
Lippincott
Sano
Littell
American Review
Fashion ‘Bazar
Noah
N.Y
GMM
Ys Weekly
N.Y. Sporteman
Prairié Farmer
Peterson's Lady's Magazine
Popular Science News
A Science Ny Ana Nea Annuae Review
Epalmeat
Sunday School Times
Scribner's Aes
Sunn Laon Tapuceasetse Spaniel Bt
Nicholas
Francisco Chroicle
Vick's Floral Magazins
Waverley
Western World
Watchman
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Seeeseee
Ational Stockman
Noga Sda
Bop
D. A. Lincoln
Carson
Anna Barrows
Philadelphia Times
GREAT
Jay
Wall Street
Papa
Reese
Othe
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