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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1880
Page
3
Farmers receive guidance on salvaging crops before frost, ripening tomatoes and melons indoors, sowing spinach seed before the 10th, and marketing lettuce seed for December. The report covers celery banking, onion drying, squash storage, glasshouse repairs, wintering flowering plants, currants and goseberries propagation, and tobacco curing and worm control.
The article explains best timing for tobacco harvest focusing on maturity signs and cautions against cutting before frost, rain, or dew. It then details hops harvesting and curing practices, kiln timing, sweating, sulfur use, and the recent rise in U.S. hop production and prices with regional yield notes and market projections.
An article discusses a wash using chloride carbolic acid and soft soap to deter peach and apple borers, with application timing prior to July and similar uses for grapes. It also covers apricot prospects in California, warnings to orchardists, and methods for dividing bee colonies, including transfers, queen cells, and hive management.
The passage argues beekeeping can yield high profits with intelligent management. Neglect leads to colony decline and loss, while well cared for hives can double or more annual returns. Surplus honey often pays hive costs, with some cases reaching 100 pounds per hive. the craft is accessible to women and even children with aptitude.
A detailed guide on selecting apples and timing harvest to make long lasting cider. It covers pressing methods, pomace handling, fermentation control, racking, bottling, and preventing spoilage with antiseptics and vinegar production, plus notes on cider aging and market factors.
Special Philadelphia Times report recalls Jerry Greening describing a drought era when Delaware River water ran low in 1833 1835. He claims fish crawled onto rocks at dusk to seek dew and cool air, counting many as he watched for nights, insisting his tale is gospel truth despite disbelief.
Between 7000 and 8000 pilgrims left Paris Gare d Orleans for Lourdes in seven trains of twenty carriages. The departure began at 4 pm and continued to midnight as priests Sisters of Mercy and the pilgrimage commissioner issued and checked tickets. About 2000 were ill among the travelers, the rest able bodied, with scenes of suffering described along the station courtyard.
A Lower Gola Hill resident in Silver City Times reports an invalid woman owned three canary birds famed for singing. She wished them killed and cooked to please her, and attendants agreed to kill and dress them in her presence, though the act shocked the onlookers as a cannibal-like spectacle.
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