Rural Dairying and Market Gardening in One Home
The article describes combining small scale dairy farming with market gardening. A central fodder table aids feeding and water channels permit easy drinking. It details a Cheshire family with half an acre to a cow, growing strawberries raspberries lettuce and cabbage, paying £4 yearly ground rent, and suggests many such setups could lower urban food costs with effort and savings.
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North
Germany
St. James
Cheshire
Scotland
France
Belgium
How to Get More Blooms From Violets in Frames
The article explains that violet blooms depend on buds formed before framing for winter quarters. Grow young plants annually from runners in April, ensuring you use runners rather than old divisions, pricked out a foot apart in a partial shade bed with manure and leaf-rich soil. Regular hoeing and trimming of new runners keeps plants vigorous, yielding a prodigious bloom harvest for eight months.
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Vick's
Pinching pansies yields bushy compact plants
A gardener recounts trying early seed sowing for pansies during a drought. Daily watering kept plants alive but growth was slow until cooler weather and occasional rain. Pinching back ends produced additional branches, creating compact plants with more flowers, a method he plans to repeat.
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Vick's Magazine
The Cost of Milk in Commercial Dairy Farming
Dairy article argues that dairy farming should be more commercial. It claims many herds do not cover costs once labor is considered and profits come from only a few cows. Smaller operations would raise overall dairy profits.
Keeping Twelve Cows on Ten Acres
A historical note on Hiram Smith of Sheboygan Falls Wisconsin renowned dairyman who maintains a large herd and uses farm produce to feed them while purchasing supplemental feed.
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Hiram Smith
Sheboygan Falls
Wis
Milk to Pigs and Pork: A 12-Cow Ten-Acre System
Prairie Farmer outlines a farm plan to sustain twelve Jersey grade cows on ten acres. It divides land into buildings, forage, and pasture, grows two acres of millet and rye, two of clover meadow, and two for fodder corn, yielding 58 pounds of green feed per cow daily and requiring 15 tons of ground grain purchased. The method emphasizes timing, manure handling, and feeding with summer abundance to maximize output and profit.
Fruit Eating by Bees Provokes Debate on Oldest Beekeeper
The Chicago Tribune reports on claimed demonstrations by an alleged eldest California beekeeper that bees can cut through resistant substances, including grape skins. The piece notes that bees likely attack damaged fruit rather than sound fruit, and urges beekeepers to plant forage but warns against keeping many swarms to the detriment of neighbors and children.
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California
Chicago Tribune
Beekeeping Method for Wintering Bees in Cellar Benches
Wisconsin writer Elias Fox shares a wintering method for bees using 2 and 4 stud benches with tight bottoms in a cellar. Hives sit on benches with covers removed and sacking placed over them, supported by 1 by 1 inch sticks at ends for the next hive tier. Entrances remain as in summer. Fox reports two winters of success with natural stores and pollen, though he does not claim to have solved wintering. Time will tell.
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Elias Fox
Wisconsin
American Bee Journal
New York City
Mr. Thomson
Reiche
Cincinnati Zoological Garden
Arrangement of an Apiary in Hollow Square Pattern
J W Margrove of Hiawatha Kansas describes his apiary layout in the American Bee Journal. He places hives five feet apart in a hollow square facing outward to work behind each hive and avoid doorway intrusions. A second inner square can be added with entrances reversed to face inward.
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J. W. Margrove
Hiawatha
Kan
American Bee Journal
Scalloped Potatoes Recipe From Old Cookery Note
Cut up cold boiled potatoes to about a quart. Add milk flour and butter, heat to thicken. Layer potatoes in a pudding dish, season with salt and pepper, and spoon in gravy. Top with rolled cracker crumbs and butter bits. Bake twenty minutes.
Cranberry Preserving Instructions From Old Kitchen Note
Pick over and wash the cranberries and place in the preserving kettle with half a pint of water per quart of berries. Add granulated sugar on top and simmer about half an hour, stirring to prevent burning. Do not strain. cranberries cook in sugar and preserve their rich color. Use less sugar if a lighter conserve is desired.
Chicken Croquettes with Mushroom Parsley Sauce
Melt butter, cook mushrooms and parsley, add flour salt pepper nutmeg and thickening. Stir in cream and broth until pap thick. Dice cold roast fowl and simmer in sauce to cool, form into balls, coat in bread crumbs and egg, fry brown. Garnish with fried parsley.
The Heifer First Calf and Angora Goat Notes
The article advises selling a first calf from a non pedigreed heifer, recommends liberal feeding for growing pigs, and reports on Angora goats with U S Department of Agriculture guidance. It cites ranges for pure Angora prices, acclimation history, and warns readers to research before investing in mohair production.
Odors in Tight Houses and Easy Fresh Air Remedies
In a country village a reader recalls how stove smoke and fried foods linger in small homes during late fall. A practical cleanup method uses top window springs and open doors to create drafts, releasing odors quickly and letting fresh air fill the rooms.
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Philadelphia Press
To Dislodge the Enemy of the Kidneys and Bladder
Early signs of kidney or bladder inactivity prompt use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. The preparation acts as a diuretic without over-stimulation, aiding Bright's disease diabetes and bladder catarrh in incipient stages. It also strengthens kidneys and reinforces digestion and fever relief.
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Dr. Pierce
Golden
Districta
Pr. Pierce
Golden Medical
Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Main St
Bupfalo, N
Red Star Cough Cure and Odd Claims From 1880s Notes
An 1880s clipping cites Thomas Tormey of Scott Depot West Virginia praising St Jacobse Oil for sciatica and claiming three rubbings cured him with no return. The piece also mentions a lynching threat and Notre Dame sisters endorsing Red Star Cough Cure for coughs chest oppression and sore throat at twenty five cents a bottle.
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Thomas Tormey
Scott Depot
Putnam Co
W. Va
Sisters of the Notre Dame
Govanstown
Man pawns glass eye to buy bread in Bromley
A poor man in Bromley pawned his glass eye to the pawnbroker who valued the pledge at two shillings. The tale, cited by Pall Mall Gazette, notes the eye’s loss as a disfigurement yet suggests a hungry man prefers bread to glass, reflecting hardship.
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Bromley
Pall Mall Gazette
Fools Rush in and Angels Fear to Tread in Ad Copy
Impetuous youth linked to folly and debility prompts readers to consult Dr. R Pierce of Buffalo for home treatment and mailed particulars. Prickly Ash Bark and Berries touted as a household remedy for rheumatic and kidney troubles, while Pine Cod Liver Oil from Hazard Hazard & Co. is praised for purity and superiority among oils. Some aphorisms cited as editorial quips.
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R. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Hazard, Hazard & Co
New York
Dr Harter's Iron Tonic Promises Bright Health
A testimonial-style note claims Dr Harter's Iron Tonic delivers a bright eye clear skin glowing features and animated expression with a quick firm step as a secured benefit. The wording emphasizes vitality and vigor from the tonic.
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