Hay Farming Expert Advice From Rural New Yorker Letters
Readers share hay handling tips including sled and wagon designs, haystacking methods, and working with horses. Notes on meadow gear, hay storage odors, and feeding vs selling, plus a description of Long Island barn design for hay. Prospects say last season’s low quality hay depresses prices. new crop expected large, keeping prices down.
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Daeknas
Acre
Toledo
Timothy
Hoe
Michigan
New Yorker
Long Island
The
Hay Trade Journal
Package design promising better tomato packing tips
A Country Gentleman correspondent praises a fruit viewing package not exceeding a half bushel. It exposes one third of contents and uses a homemade crate. Tomatoes are packed with firm fruit at the bottom and top, resembling California market methods, contrasting with careless market gardeners in open Dhuebel baskets.
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The
Country Gentleman
Jayera
California
Crate Sketch for Tomato Packing and Direct Sale
A farmer describes crate design and packing method for direct tomato sales. The crate measures 17 by 12 by 6 inches inside, built of spruce and apruce, with one inch clearance between stacked crates. Crates are painted, stenciled with farm name and address, returned when empty, and suitable for transporting other produce.
Unloading Cocoanuts On the Wharf by Expert Sorters
The New York Sun describes how cocoanuts are unloaded from a Yee pumpkin hulk. Workers sort count and sack the nuts by size and soundness on the wharf, using three counters and a pallet to tally up to 60 and 100 nuts per bag. Smaller cracked nuts and sprouts are kept apart and sold cheap for quick consumption.
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Bach
New York Sun
Fermented drink fondness noted in wildlife report
A Lippincott's excerpt claims many higher animals including elephants bears and monkeys crave alcohol. It notes elephants are fed whisky in water when ill and asserts natives in Africa use beer to incapacitate and capture monkeys, describing staged gradual awakenings.
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Africa
Fort R
Lippincott's
Thrones of Spain Describe Regal Courtroom Scene
The throneroom of Spain is a magnificent crimson and gold apartment with colossal mirrors and a rock crystal chandelier regarded as the finest. Under a gilded canopy two large carved chairs serve as the royal thrones for the boy king and queen regent during ceremonies, with daughters sometimes standing beside their mother for formal receptions.
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Spain
International Magazine
Migration of Robins and Their Winter Habits
A writer notes robins become wilderness birds in fall, moving to woods and mountains. They gather in small flocks over valleys and fly high when approached. The article ponders why robins migrate southward more slowly than other birds and whether cold-hardened birds from farther states take their place. The piece ends by acknowledging identity remains hard to confirm.
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