Agricultural and Domestic Tips From The Oil City Derrick
A long list of home farming and cooking notes covers remedies for fruit borers and weevils using grass clearance, coal dust, and sulfur fumigation, plus tree belts to stop chinch bugs. Recipes include potato sauce, tea biscuits, baked apple pudding, New Hampshire Johnny Cake, and chicken pie. It urges seed selection from the Bible principle and discusses mutton breeds and crossbreeding with the American merino for profitable wool and lambs. A closing quip notes a Goop business stand as a standing advertisement.
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New Hampshire
Commencing With Sheep in Modern Husbandry
Professor Stewart notes the shift in sheep keeping from wool first to meat and wool, with mutton demand rising in the United States and England. He warns against old focus on fleece and wrestling, urging adoption of English style breeding and feeding for profitability, especially where land holds real value.
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Stewart
New Yorker
France
United States
England
Pacific
Butter Maker proves superior in dairy trial in Oregon
A May 30 1878 report from Starra Union Co Oregon describes W W Ross Esa receiving a Butter Maker package from Burren Improvement Co Buffalo NY. One gallon sweet cream churned with the powder yielded 4.5 pounds butter of rich color and waxy texture in 20 minutes, while churned without powder produced 4 pounds in 45 minutes with lighter color and texture. The tester George W EasTEREROON endorses the product, noting improved grain color and quantity and advises friends and the public to use it.
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Starra, Union Co
Oregon
Burren Inprovement Co
Buffalo
N.Y
W. W. Ross
Esa
Guo. W. Eastereroon
Correction on Dr. Ponars Cancer Hospital in Aurora
A correction notes that Dr. Ponars hospital in Aurora is thriving and helping hundreds with cancer treatment. The ad claims the infirmary offers the best care west of New York and invites inquiries to Dr. F. L. Pond in Kane County.
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Ponars
Aurora, Sinais
New York
F. L. Pond
Aurora
Kane County
Itt
Orient Coffee and Best Sweet Navy Tobacco Advertisements
Smith and Curtiss of Cleveland Ohio guarantee their Orient Coffee to be pure and always uniform Consult your grocer Sources also tout Hew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco in brief ad copy style.
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Hew Jackson
Vegetine trade advertisement claims blood cleansing cure
VEGETINE is advertised as a concentrated extract from barks roots and herbs that purports to cure a wide range of diseases from syphilis to skin eruptions and stomach ulcers. The copy urges physicians to prescribe VEGETINE for blood purification and systemic health, claiming it strengthens the body and purifies the blood.
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Leicester
South Down
Oil City
Cincinnali Gazette
DR. C. C. Benton
MCCA
Rindy
Elocitls Magnetic Mediccie CO
Cleveland
Allens
Allen
Wapper
Pirin
Gruggiat
J.P -Minier
M.D. Wor
Cor
Philads
Dax
Ots
Blorrison
Bellains
Ryker'seard Elixir Danay Danee
Vecetine
H.R. Stevens
Boston, Mass
Graefenberg
A'L
Ratarn
W. Cor
Ois
Ares
U. S. Piano & Organ CO
Great Offer
Catalocuca
Jiorace Waters
St. N.Y. P
Jae Hill
Widies-Barre
BOGD
Combofor
Akilfor
Proratacm
Lawrence & CO
Exchange Place
Haw Yorke
WH. H. Wampule
North Wales
Anya Autres
Sabanaires
Saehman & CO
Marshal
Mich
Teac
Tan Spencetan Business College
C. le
P.w.zeraiee
Phin
Madison
Inn
Trea
Addr
Truy &Co
Augusta
Great Western Gun Works
Pittsburgh
Adar
H HalletraCa
Portland
Ae Ko Tred
Temple
Oliver Ditson & 60
Boston
Ditson & CO
Broadway
Europe
America
Mery
Philadelphia
I. P.O. Borial
Bisladsiphis
Sele
Sestee
CIRAR
Batile Coreer Machinere Co
Battie Thle Creek
Ville
Duff & Sons
Pliteburgh
Harper & Brow
Grant
Xois
National PauLiserne Co
TLVEN
Ingraviacs
Crits
Canada
EB. Gleason & CO
Summer Street
Mass
Ingeesiu
Everryone
Painteiu
Eangersoll Paine Works
South Street
York
Woolrich & CO
R_Valentine
Janesyilie
Wis
Pierce
Stort
Dr. Pierce
Co. Wohlipe Disransary
Clark Johnson
Edwin Hastman
Mrr
Eastwan
Chas. Jones and Son
Dec. Lath
Eastman
Wakawetkla
Moaterlais
Wakawelkla
Bias TaRke
Wakamethla
Edwin Eastman
Sayyn
Air
Dr. Johnson
de Clark Johnson
Athens
Athens County
Ohio
Fairfax
Highland County
Erie County
Marianne Shelton
Bowling Greay
Wood County
Neiralgis
Curtis
Sarah Plage
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