Agricultural Notes on Farming Practices and Sunday Prosecutions
The article discusses proper grain and hay stacking methods to prevent spoilage and improve weather resilience. It emphasizes a convex foundation, concentric layers, and a tapered peak, with careful, air‑permitting construction and a final thatching cap. It also notes Sunday farming prosecutions in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, linking overzealous piety to crop neglect and animal hardship.
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American Agriculturist
Lancaster
Donovan the Distinctive Distinctions of a Portland Derby Winner
The Thoroughbred Donovan, a pure bay with a star, stands over sixteen hands and seems older in development than his three years. He won the Derby prize in consecutive years and the Ascot this season, with total reported winnings of $170,000. Duke of Portland plans to spend this sum on cottages for tenants at Welbeck Abbey as noted by A B Alien in American Agriculturist.
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Donovan
Duke of Portland
Ascot
Welbeck Abby
England
A. B. Alien
American Agriculturist
Sunday Farming and Sabbath Labor Critique
A Sunday farming note from Texas argues farmers breaking the Sabbath by harvesting grain on Sunday incur divine disapproval, citing a Roxbury, Massachusetts case where a man was prosecuted for hauling hay on Sunday to prevent spoilage. The piece condemns fear of using Sunday for rational purposes and laments hay spoilage due to such fears.
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Roscommon
Texas
St. Louis
Roscommon sheep breed improves with Leicester infusion
The Roscommon, native to Connaught, Ireland, advanced from coarse slow-m growing old stock to a better carcass and flock through careful selection and Leicester blood. Ewes weigh 140 to 180 pounds, fat wearers 20 to 30 pounds, fleece averages up to ten pounds, rams up to twenty pounds.
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Connaught
Ireland
Cotton market premium pressures September October
A Dallas News cor respondent notes cotton planters face strong buying demand as the world lacks fiber. Spot cotton in New York and Liverpool commands 6 to 7 per bite above winter delivery prices, with September and October seen as peak demand periods and prices falling later.
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New York
Liverpool
Dallas News
To Keep Swine Healthy And Productive
Advice on proper hog management including space, feeding, cleanliness, and housing. Emphasizes separating large and small hogs, regular liberal feeding of wholesome bulky foods, clean water from pure wells, ventilation, exercise, shade, and avoiding straw piles to prevent disease. Recommends spring furrowing, growing foods year round, and fattening on corn and supplements in fall.
Prince of Wales farms at Seambingham exceed 200 acres
London Truth notes the Prince of Wales owns Seambingham farms over 200 acres with Hall dairy farm housing Jersey Kerry cattle and Southdown stock. Wolferton Babingley farms host short horns Southdowns hackneys shire horses. Appleton Hall farm shifted to store cattle and sheep. Hackneys at Wolferton nearing 190 with 70 shirebreds and a biennial sale planned next summer. Sandringham park guards a curious white horned cattle herd from Hungary.
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Prince of Wales
Seambingham
London
Hall
Jersey
Kerry
Southdowns
Wolferton
Babingley
Appleton Hall
Sandringham
Sandringham Park
Hungary
Festeties
Price Shifts in 1876 to Modern Trade
The article notes historical price changes: in 1876 one bushel of corn bought one pound of nails, whereas now ten pounds of nails can be bought per bushel. Barley, broadcloth, and calico prices are similarly contrasted with wheat, showing dramatic shifts in purchasing power and commodity costs over time.
Al Ricker and the Doomed Drug Store Tale
A Maine coast tale recalls Al Ricker once a druggist who ruined a town’s drug trade after mistreating customers. He trades potions for sour mash and patent remedies, battles rival Dosser, and finally hangs himself after a scheme collapses, leaving a grim moral about revenge and poor business.
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Maine
al Ricker
Jimmy Neddy
Dosser
A Queer Pet The Fourteen Inch Snake in Henry Wood’s Stomach
Henry Wood, a farmer near Trenton, claims a live snake was drawn from his stomach years ago. The snake, now grown to about eighteen inches, sits in a glass jar and comes out at meals. Wood feeds it milk and says only he can approach it, with the reptile seeming to enjoy his presence.
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Henry Wood
Trenton
New Philadelphia
Louisville Courier-Journal
Mr. Wood
Wood
A Man With a Monstrous Nose in a Midwinter Meeting
A passage recalls admiring the extraordinary nose of Prime Minister Gladstone during a Chester stay in midwinter. The narrator compares noses of Bismarck and Pastner, then describes Gladstone’s immense proboscis as he enters the London mail train, drawing cheers from onlookers.
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Europe
Bismarck
Pastner
Mr. Gladstone
Dublin
London
Chester
Gladstone
Hawarden
London Mail
Blakely Hali
Plan to pay debts by becoming U.S. President
A young man tells a creditor he cannot meet, then proposes a scheme to the creditors. He jokes that if he becomes President, the salary would cover his debts and allow him to divide the rest among the creditors. He asks the listener to mention it to his folks.
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United States
Detroit Free Press
California Anglers Clash Over Fish Gambit
A four man fishing party on a California river lured by a bet to split pay for each fish landed ends in a theft and a ruse. One angler steals a catch, lies, and lands a series of fish to recover $4.25 and bankrupt the others, then is thwarted by the ruse. The Sacramento Record notes the scheming outcome and the quarrel.
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State Capitol
Sacramento
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Froscommon
Blakeville
Ricker
Feller
al. Ricker
Dan Harris
Alien
Deacon Stevens
Law and Order
Denton Stevans
Deacon
Boston
Stevens
Jingo
Providence
California
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