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Newspaper
Friendship Weekly Register
Location
Friendship, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1889
Page
8
Agricultural notes debate the profitability of bee farming versus dairy and explain how proper root trimming aids tree transplanting. Articles cover bee yields from clover fields, root damage from exposure, and best practices for encouraging new roots, with additional advice on horse dental care and humane handling.
The American Agriculturist argues breeding and raising lambs yields more profitable meat than beef or pork. Lambs reach market weight in six months, require only pasture, and produce fleeces from ewes, unlike steers which need two years of growth and hay and grain. Lambs return investment faster with fewer health risks and lower initial cost.
An account from the American Poultry Journal outlines chick development from egg to hatching. It tracks eye and brain formation by day three, heart and organs by day five to six, bones and scales by days nine and ten, life on day twelve, heat dynamics, and yolk absorption as the chick reaches immersion.
The article discusses farmer split over potato planting methods. Some favor single eye pieces per hill to maximize yield from seed while others in favorable regions insist heavy seeding and whole seed maximize profits despite higher costs and more small potatoes. Experiments from Michigan show varying yields by number of eyes. Boston Cultivator notes larger gains from whole seed but offset by cost and more smalls.
Practical tips for poultry and fruit gardeners. Feed hens to keep them working, avoid mixing ashes with manure, plant sweet corn promptly, and manage fruit crates, strawberry beds, and grape vines. Emphasizes soil, seeds, and proper pruning for better yields and healthier orchards.
In Eastern Roumelia now part of Bulgaria a flowering industry grows roses for attar of roses. The Shipka Pass region, once a Russian route into Turkey in 1877, is famed for fields of cultivated roses. Shipka name is linked to wild rose and a white rose variety reputed to yield perfumer specimens sent to France.
Household matters praise good housekeepers by home cleanliness and order. A lace cleaning method is described using a bottle over a cooling stocking and boiled soap shavings, then pressed flat with weights for a neat finish.
A folding travel bag uses a foundation of coarse crash or holland with watripe patterns between stripes. Red Andalusian wool or coarse red marking cotton is sewn into a 27 inch by 1 yard piece, ends joined, edges turned, cross stitch on the turn over, fringe finish, and handles fixed by buttons and button-holes.
Practical guide from the New York Star on crafting a burlap dining room portiere with tapestry stitch fruit and leaf design in brown purple orange and olive. Also describes painting low willow rockers with floral motifs using red poppies and decorative chair detailing in deep gold purple and yellow with plush bands and purple ribbons.
A woman criticizes false moth advice about furs and moths in a New York Graphic piece. She recalls paying for a dubious tip and endorses camphor as a practical, simple control. The excerpt also lists simple kitchen recipes like molasses ginger cakes and cinnamon buns with period cooking steps.
Harper's Magazine describes a travel scene across the Russian steppes and Ukraine. The narrator notes vast quiet plains, peasants on simple carts, and villages with whitewashed houses near Kiev. The piece contrasts harsh serfdom past with lingering manners, including inhabitants greeting the benefactress with kisses as she arrives at the seigneur’s court.
Mrs. H N Strait of Wyandotte Plumbing Company battled a large boa constrictor in the Grand View residence cellar. Armed with a coal shovel she killed the eleven foot snake after five striking retreats. The incident occurred while her husband was in Wyoming Territory. neighbors helped to carry the snake to the woodshed.
A St Louis gentleman in silver and gold electroplating seeks to replace embalming by plating the living body. After five years in a private lab he reports success with an egg and a cheese sample and now claims progress toward plating a human leg. The work is done in secrecy amid claims of preserving the dead and creating silver plated statuary ancestors.
The article notes St Louis once the Rome of Catholic faith in the United States because of its churches convents and possessions yet warns the city has lost standing with the westward shift of population. It compares global sugar production in 1885 and lists crematories in major U.S. cities including Washington Lancaster New York and Chicago.
The New York World argues doctors often misdiagnose in arsenic poisonings and kidney disease cases. It urges caution and endorses Warner's Safe Cure as a timely remedy to protect kidneys and combat misdiagnosis. The piece frames medical ignorance and bigotry as endangering lives.
A New York pathology expert compared lungs from a country resident and a city resident. The country lung remained pink while the city lungturned nearly black due to dust and grime, suggesting urban air requires a cleansing bath for the lungs.
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