Ploughing and Soil Pulverization for Better Crops
An in depth discussion on soil preparation for planting emphasizes intelligent ploughing, pulverization, and fall versus spring work. It notes frost action and alternative implements aid pulverization, warns against fall ploughing on loose soils, and outlines how proper tillage improves root growth and moisture uptake as seasons change. It also touches on evaluating cows for family dairy use and buying tips for milking capability and calf considerations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Ff
The Ideal Dairy Cow for Family Milk and Butter
The article extols a gentle large-uddered Guernsey or high- quality crossbred cow for steady milk and rich butter. It praises full udder size, easy milking, and high colored cream, noting Jerseys can also fit but with smaller yields. It cites local examples of cows yielding six to twenty four quarts daily and producing substantial butter, urging careful breeding to fit household needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey
Guernseys
the Tribune
Board of Health
Guernsey
Jerseys
City
Dairymen urged to feed best cows despite low prices
The article argues that dairy profits hinge on keeping the best cows well fed and expanding milk output. It warns that low prices and poor yields create a double setback, and suggests culling unprofitable cows, using good pasture and additional feeds, to sustain profit even in hard times. It emphasizes intelligent herd management over price reactions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stoc Journal
Keeping butter long in winter with brine and rolls
The article surveys butter preservation myths and methods, noting salt’s limited effect on keeping quality and outlining practical, tested techniques. It covers grinding granules, washing, brining in muslin bags, rolling in brine and under air exclusion, plus cooling storage. Some butter can keep years with air exclusion, though results vary by breed, feed, and processing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chemical Laboratory
Farmers Advocate Notes Long Storage in Produce
The Farmers' Advocate states that certain crops will keep for months and may endure years when properly stored. The remark highlights extended shelf life for farm produce under suitable conditions.
How to pack grapes for long shipment and winter use
Several correspondents seek guidance on packing grapes for long shipment and winter storage. Advice covers ripeness timing, skin toughness varieties, careful pruning of unripe berries, air and stem handling, box packing methods, sawdust packing, and the use of splint baskets and paper crates. It notes specific varieties and storage plans for different climates and markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Martha
Wilder
Goethe
Ives
North Carolina
Rogers No. 2
Norton
Virginia
Husmann
Husmannn
California
Fertilizer Trials in Rhine Vineyards Offer Encouragement
Four year experiments in the Rhine district show commercial fertilizers can substitute for stable manure in grapes, maintaining quantity and quality with similar costs. White grapes fared worse than colored ones, likely due to deeper rooting. Best results came from iron post-hole digging close to vines and applying four to five ounces per hole in several shallow pits to collect rainwater for solution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caldwell
Rhine
Bee keeping a city clerk’s surprising hive venture
Nathan Beck city clerk starts with a stray hive in his suburban yard. After a tense start he frees the bees and earns 112 pounds of surplus honey from four colonies, selling at 35 cents a pound. His initial outlay and labor return over 100 percent, fueling a steady study of apiculture and expansion to four strong colonies by mid summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathan Beck
Beck
Mrs. Beck
Eck
Bee
Beekeeping Tips on Queens and Colony Roles
The article explains replacing aging queens with vigorous, prolific ones and warns that a queenless hive cannot survive long. It details queen fertility up to 2000 to 3000 eggs daily, the 21 day worker bee development, and roles of workers and drones including cell cleaning feeding larvae and swarm-related mating.
Bee Breeding and Management Advice from an 1900s Guide
A guide discusses bee life cycles with days to hatch drones workers queens and risks of queen becoming drone laden. It praises comb foundation saving old combs and artificial swarms while warning on queen age and using a bee tamer to quiet colonies. It also claims I. S. is best and notes profits from attentive care and capital investment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twantreane
I. S
Pereteey He aoe? Points of Practical Value in the Horse
An 1900s Livestock Journal excerpt argues depth of chest and a long, well ribbed body enable faster, freer motion. It stresses a curved spine, strong loin and wide hips for power, speed, and gait, noting the hindquarters drive progression and that broad, rambling hips aid leaping and leverage.
Fragmented OCR summary entry and names
Puzzle like OCR line with mixed letters repeats and stray words. The readable bits hint at a list or note with names or items but no clear event or outcome. No identifiable dates places organizations or people beyond scattered letters.
Prices and purchasing power described in historical table
The excerpt notes prices, excluding Wheat, corn, and livestock, at their lowest level in the period observed. It compares currency values to the panic year 1873 and 1881, stating general price averages are 35 percent lower in currency and 28 percent lower in gold than after the 1873 panic, with a 26 percent reduction versus 1881, suggesting the dollar’s purchasing power is markedly higher.
Rabbits in Markets and How to Raise Them for Profit
A historic overview explains rabbits and hares as market livestock, noting prices from forty to sixty cents per pass, and comparing English rabbits with Eastern and Northern hares. Guidance covers housing, feeding, and shelter, suggesting woodland runs, green foods, winter staples, and even spruce tree cultivation as a potential adjunct to rabbit farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atcher
New York
England
Profitable Rabbit Breeding Suggested by Country Gent
The Country Gent notes rabbit farming could be profitable with a herd of rabbits bred for meat, needing only food and minimal housing. It warns predators like cats dogs weasels hawks and foxes would threaten stock, recommending strychnine and a shotgun for defense and a three foot two by two mesh fence around the ranch.
Timing Wood Cutting Varies by Climate and Purpose
Forestry experts debate ideal cutting times for new growth, peeling needs, and ship timber. Hough favors late winter in Northern states and post leaf fall in milder climates, while Beal admires Russian after spring growth for bark removal. Poles and firewood timing differ, with immediate splitting aiding seasoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. B. Hough
Forestry Division
Department of Agriculture
United States
W. J. Beal
Russia
Farming Outlook on Potatoes and Hops Prices and Storage
The article analyzes potato price uncertainty this autumn, storage methods to curb rot, and the likelihood of low prices unless futures rise. It also discusses hop price speculation, barley quality, winter-wheat sowing, weed control, and seed longevity experiments by Professor Beal with various plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Beal
Winchester Virginia tale of Rebecca Payne to Lawrence Payne
A Washington Post report from Winchester Virginia chronicles Rebecca Payne who lived as a woman for years and later became Lawrence Payne. A custody dispute with her sister aunts over a child unfolds amid village gossip and a marriage to Miss Hilton after a court case was postponed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Washington Post
Winchester
Rebecca Payne
Rebecca
Lawrence KR. Payne
Sarah
Lella
Hugh M. Merritt
Bellaire
Virginia
Sarah Elizabeth Virginia Merritt
Bessie
Mr. Merritt
Ohio
Payne
Merritt
Mary
Jacob L. Swimley
Lelia Payne
Doe
Holmes Conrad
J. Merritt
Maguire
Lawrence Payne
Miss Hilton
Rebecca K. Payne
Frederick County
West Virginia
Iss Hilton
Martinsburg
Rebecca R. Payne
Lawrence R. Payne
Lawrence
Paynes
Jane Payne
Berkeley County
Methodist Episcopal
Joe
Stephenson
Payne Sisters
Weekly Globe Club List catalog of magazines and prices
A dense list of periodicals including American and British titles with pricing, issues and subscription notes. Details numerous publications such as Cosmopolitan style magazines and trade journals, urging yearly subscriptions to The Weekly Globe and restricting orders to one address per year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mea Sunday School Times
Sunny South
St. Nicholas
Sanitarian
San Francisco Chronic
Spirit of the ‘Times
the Republic
Turf, Field and Farn
Vick’s
Floral Magazine
Westminster Review
Wide Awake
Waverley Magazine
Watchman
Western Stock Journal
Wheely Globe
Religion in China as seen by John Russell Young
John Russell Young describes Chinese faith as domestic rather than doctrinal, noting Islam Buddhism and Islamism present. He emphasizes ancestor reverence as the core duty, citing Li Hung Chang’s mourning and imperial decree to shorten it, an unprecedented commutation in China’s history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Russell Young
New York Herald
China
Arabia
Syria
Li Hung Chang
Bismarck
Wen Chow
Li “ Chang
Patent medicine ad catalog with assorted cures
An old time advertisement lists Hale's Honey cough remedy at 26 cents and 50 cents, Glenn's Sulphur Soap for healing and beautifying, German Corn Remover for corns and bunions, Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye Black and Brown, Pike's Toothache Drops claimed to cure in one minute at 25 cents, and Dean's Rheumatic Pills advertised as a sure cure at 60 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hale
Glenn
Hill
Pike
Dean
Also Mentioned on This Page
W. H. Yeomans
Boston
Commission
N. E
Apiary
Pereteey Heaoe
Oia
Satate
Pegpseny
Jaarez
Ei Bi
Pezesetubagies
Aeeagibikent
R. Payne
Weekly Globe Club
Tee
Arthur's Tome
American Dairyman
American Poultry Journal
Atlantic Monthly
American Art Journal
American Garden
British Quarterly Review
Blackwood's Magazine
Ballou’s Magazine
Bee-keeper’s Mage Christian Leader
Century Magazine
Connecticut Farmer
Chicago Advance
Domestic Monthly
Detroit Free Press
American Naturalist
American Agricult
Manuels
Army & Navy Journal
Brainerd
Worl Beadle
Burlington Hawkeye
Babylands
Boston Pilot
Boston Medical Journal
Cottage Hearth
Cottage and Farm
Country Gentleman
Christian Herald
Courier-Journal
Demorest’s
American Sipesaiea Boys of
Boston Medical and
Donahoe
Forney
Progres
Frank Leslie
Germantown
Green’s Fruit Recorder
Gardner’s Monthly
Godey’s
Young Home Circle
Harper's Magazine
Harper's Weekly
Harper's Bazar
Harper’s Young People Herald of Health
Home Journal
Indiana Farmer
Independent
International Review
Iowa Homestead
Journal of Microscopy Journal of Chemistry
le Francais
P! Lippincott’s Magazine
London Lancet
London
Edinburgh
Revi
London Quarterly Review
Methodist
American Mining Record
Mother's
Bad Weesseeere
Puck
Portland Transcript
Phrenological Journal
Prem
Prince’on Review
Aeed Prairie Farmer
Peterson's
Lady’s Magazin
Popular Science Monthly
Produce Exchange
Philadelphia Medical Times
Gazine
Eker
Rideout
New
Saturday Evening Post
Scientific American
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