Early and Profitable Beef Gains From Cross-Bred Cattle
The Smithfield Club's method of exact ages and weights for fat stock guides profits. Cross-bred cattle show the best daily gains, with pure sires boosting beef and milk performance. Advice urges consistent feeding from birth and choosing suitable stock for beef, milk, and draft. Farm notes cover rusted corn, predation on chicks, worm control, radish and kale for poultry, and linseed meal for health. Continuous experimentation and fresh eyes in hatching are encouraged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smithfield
Eng
Chicago
London
Wien
Oss
Sussex
Devon
Hereford
Hints for the Garden Despite Pests and Pruning Tips
The article advises dealing with orchard pests by individual destruction using sweet liquid baits and hammering off snags to expose pests. It emphasizes careful pruning of transplanted fruit trees, proper summer pruning, and maintaining equal growth. It also stresses soaking soil around small fruits where water is beneficial, hoeing to control weeds, and earthing up crops to improve yields.
Deep soil, sowing and rolling in gardening practice
The Gardener's Monthly notes that soil should be deep and finely pulverized but loose soil hinders growth. After sowing seeds, a heavy roll is highly beneficial, a practice common in farm crops yet rarely applied to garden work.
The Stock-Breeder Feed Practices and Mohair Debate
The article discusses feeding fattening animals with bran to improve digestion and notes the benefits of light, porous bran. It contrasts Angora goat farming with sheep, highlighting profits from Mohair and the need for hardy range species. It also explains hog multiplication, pork price volatility, and the impact of hog cholera on pork production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Cape Colony
Chicago Tribune
Household Insect Defense Promises Clean Homes
Practical advice urges putting up wire screens or netting to bar flies and mosquitoes, stressing health risks from insects. The piece mixes home remedies and tidbits on cleaning, health, dairy and food safety, plus a stray note on mothballing and fabric care.
Magnitude of the Dairy Business and Counterfeit Butter
The Washington Star notes the large dairy industry and the damage from counterfeit butter. It cites last year’s butter cheese and milk product value at over 500 million dollars, far exceeding many other crops and products, with over 50 million pounds of bogus butter produced nationwide and 15 million pounds shipped from Chicago alone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Chicago
Washington Star
Premium Butter Production Process Detailed by Hale
Daniel H. Hale of Rowley Massachusetts explains his method for making premium dairy butter from grade jerseys. He describes milk cooling and settling, cream separation, controlled acidity, incremental brining, washing to remove buttermilk, salting, pressing into prints, and gradual aging at about 60 degrees to market readiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel H. Hale
Rowley
Mass
Cottonwood gains ground as substitute timber in the South
The Timber News notes poplar limits and cottonwood rising in use in St Louis for chairmaking and wooden pumps due to cheapness. Cottonwood matches poplar in many qualities and may prove a strong competitor with smoother surface and paint-friendly finish. Tennessee stands rich in stands near streams, with marketing expanding to Chicago as freight rates influence deals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
South
Mississippi
Chicago
Tennessee
The Kitchen: Old-Fashioned Dishes From Sour Milk to Strudel
A column of pantry recipes includes Fried Tripe soak and fry method, Sour Milk Lie with boiling custard, Cabbage Man cabbage with milk and eggs, Cabbage soup with dumplings, fried pork, Bread Griddle Cakes from stale bread, Strawberry Short Cake with cream, Macaroni Lovebit with cheese and milk, lemon cake with citron, and a lemon extract glaze baked ten minutes in a hot oven.
Regulation of medical practice to ensure qualified physicians
The Minnesota Tribune argues the state must regulate medicine to curb overproduction of physicians and protect the public. It supports tests for fitness, required collegiate study, and a diploma as evidence of qualification, while noting pharmacists should not establish office medicine behind store counters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis Tribune
Air quality in confined spaces and air renewal needs
English writer notes experiments by Parkes and de Chaumont on hospital and barrack rooms. To keep air pure and carbonic acid under six parts in 10 000, about 38 000 cubic feet of air per hour per room occupant is required, far above typical indoor conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkes
de Chaumont
Colors of Canaries and Moon Folklore Notes
The article discusses canary color variation from domestication and breeding, noting that pure breeds display many colors beyond yellow. It also covers superstition about the moon from English, Scottish, and Irish regions, and mentions power bottles, paper making, and medical advertising for Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canaries
Local Poultry Note From Terre Haute Post Master
County Ohio report quotes Mr Charles F Powell post master describing Polish chickens and St Jacobs Oil on bread curing croup in birds. He says the next morning sick birds could be identified. Other reader Arthur Shurtleff of Parker Dakota credits St Jacobs Oil with curing a finger wart after years. Price listed 50 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Ohio
Charles F. Powell
St. Jacobs
Arthur Shurtleff
Parker, Dakota
Kindness in Handling Horses
Veteran showman W. C. Coup extols a modern horse training method based on kind yet firm discipline. He credits Buckley and Bartholomew as pioneers of this system, noting horses’ affection and calmness under Buckley’s influence and restlessness in his absence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Coup
Mr. Buckley
Mr. Bartholomew
Buckley
Life in the Paris Sewers and a Patent Remedy Claim
The excerpt decries life in a sewer-like body caused by liver inactivity with waste exiting via lungs skin kidneys and bladder. It hails Dr Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery as restoring normal tone to the system and renewing the whole being.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Druggista
The Lesson It Taught and Other Tidings
A Sunday-school tale contrasts Providence with a sailor’s sudden death after conversion. Also note Cape of Good Hope’s naming by King John II and Diaz. Medical ads tout Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Prickly Ash Bitters as cures. Ends with a dog praise ad and Cosmo song promotion from Dawson & Karn in Fort Wayne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tur
Cape of Good Hope
John IT
Portugal
Diaz
India
da Gama
Health Ad Texts and Slogans From a 19th Century Page
The fragment outlines patent medicine pitches including Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and MENIMAN’s Peptonized Beef Tonic. It touts health benefits for digestion nerves and vitality, with claims of restored bodily balance and vigor. It closes with a poetic query about an elopement titled maid of the mist.
New Through Route Opens Sioux City to Chicago Line
The Carcano line between Sioux City and Manilla begins June 5 1887 linking with the Chicago and Council Bluffs Division to offer the shortest through route with improved Pullman Sleepers. The new line creates direct access between Eastern Southern Central Dakota and Nebraska Central Iowa and Northern Illinois. A 5 column newspaper outfit is offered for $225 spot cash via box 021 Fort Wayne.
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Chicago
Sioux City
Yankton
Carcano, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company
Manilla
Chicago and Council Bluffs
Dakota
Nebraska
Iowa
Ilinois
Fort Wayne
Rock Island & Pacific R
Atlantic
Rock Island
Joliet
Ottawa
la Salle
Peoria
Geneseo
Moline
Illinois
Davenport
Melino
Washington
Fairfield
Ottumwa
Oskaloosa
West Liberty
Iowa City
Maines
Indianola
Winterset
Atlantic Knoxville
Audubon
Harlan
Guthrie Centre
Council Bings
Gallatin
Trenton
St. Joseph
Cameron
Kansas City
Missouri
Leavenworth and Atchison
Albert Lea
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Minnesota
Watertown
Missouri River
Ullman Palace
Atchison
City
BEC
Minnneapolis
Seneca
Kankakee
Cincinnati
Indiana
Lafayette
Atchison, Leavenworth
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the Gardener
Elies
Aphis
the Forester
Devonshire
England
Renfrewshire
Orkney
Argyllshire
Hostetter
Rome
Upiter
Lowell Courier
Paris
Omaha
Dawson & Karn
Calhoun St
Ind
Piso
Hood
Surpen
Pottsville
J. Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Maas
Mits Ta
Shookatno
PubLianixd Co
Lakemde Ride
Chips
Randolph St
Lord & Thomas
N Theerbone Company
Three Oaks
Willieme
Tmaall
Kinnao Marvin, Wholesale Axis
Oledo
Wariestown
Clyde
C.O.D
W. A. & Wick Am, Cedar, Bluffs Cedar Co .Roa
Brewster
Molly
Fitzgerald & Powell
Indianapolia
Meniman
Hazard, Hazardos Proprietors
New York
Asul
Jones
Binghamton Binghamton
Ghannan Detective Bureau
Arcade
N.S. J. Striper
Harter
Dr. Harter
Cuatowrap Co
Anx
The
Humane Remedy Co
Mre
M. J. Wilson
Harrisburg, Poinsett Co
Jonesboro
Ely
Dec
Craighomi Co
Ark
Jxo
Ferry St
Warriva
Chichester
Chichester Chemical CO
Madison Square
Ter
Kanes
Iwater
Rta
Ouls
Matt
R. R. Cable
M'p’r
Procter & Gamble
Isaac Thompson
John le
Thompson, Sons & Co
Troy
Lacy
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