Agricultural notes on stubble burning and pest control
Mechi favors burning stubble over plowing, claiming ashes boost future crops. A Beverly farmer feeds grasshoppers to pigs, while a sugar mishap leads to field sown sugar. Carbolate of lime mixed with lime drives off pests. quassia decoction kills flies and vermin, touted as a harmless remedy. Ohio Farmer notes rapid ripening varieties and weed-free gardens this season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mechi
Farm Journal
Beverly
Canada
London Times
N. Y. Zimes
Sogla
Col
Indianapolis Journal
Weeds in the Garden Prompt Vigilant Weeding
The piece argues that garden weeds are stubborn and must be eradicated continually from planting to fall. It warns neglect leads to persistent, spreading weeds that steal soil nutrients and ruin crops, urging farmers to maintain regular cultivation every season.
Threshing Wheat Too Fast Harms Value and Quality
Farmers urged to stack and cure wheat before market. Do not thresh out of the shock in heat. damp, hot grain hurts price and quality. Recommend passing wheat through a pond fan and good fanning mill, and sifting out cheat for better returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal of Agriculture
Berpanatous
Nichols, Shepard & Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Food Work and Sleep a Man's Three Main Needs
This essay argues that a man's key needs are food work and sleep not riches or honors. companionship sustains life comforts. care ambition and overwork wear the body. Life aims to live fully by utilizing rest and recreation, with cheerfulness oiling the nervous system and cementing endurance. The piece likens a man to an engine needing oil to run well and long.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Provideure Journal
Depth of Mining Shafts Through the Ages
Twenty years ago the deepest shafts were about 2000 feet deep. The Adalvert shaft in Prizibram Bohemia now reaches 3280 feet and was celebrated with a festival and commemorative medals. The mine's history dates to 1327 and a newly printed volume notes mining antiquities. There are two other localities mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanover
Prizibram
Bohemia
Depth records in shafts and new electrical lighting advances
The article lists shaft depths in Sperenberg near Berlin and Viviers Reraus Belgium, noting a maximum perpendicular depth of 8,280 feet. It compares these with the Pottsdin artesian well at 5,500 feet and reports Germany using electric lighting in a mill with four Serrin lamps powered by magneto-electric machines. It also mentions a storm velocipede and London’s daily water consumption at 118,800,000 gallons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pottsdin
Missouri
Baltimore
Germany
London
Healthful tonics replace hurtful drugs in 19th century ads
An old promotional page urges readers to avoid quinine and other harmful ailments remedies. It extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and Dr Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic as safe, effective tonics for debility digestion and liver function, claiming wide endorsement and benefits for travelers and those ill from climate or water changes. It lists cures for chills fevers and liver conditions and promotes availability through druggists and sellers in New Orleans and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schenck
Dr. Schenck
Jake Pilla
Wilhoeft
Wihoft
Mayhew Business College praised by Education Commissioner
The Education Commissioner cites Mayhew Business College Detroit as offering the most perfect business education for young men. Centennial pamphlets with full information are available at the college or by mail. Also noted are various advertisements for health and household products of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Commissioner of Education
Mayhew Business College
Detroit
Namer
P. G
Bend Tof Circularn
Atatin Ee Ou Sain Thir Card
Montague & Liclibald Ayeoport
Lows
Charter Oak Stoves Craxer Oak earns peak popularity
The Charter Oak Stove makers boast of using the finest materials and workers to produce the best cooking range. The Craxer Oak has achieved unprecedented popularity in stove history.
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Ohio
Shallenberger
Pri‘aaina'e
GOR, Younges CO
St.Louis
Audreys UE
Collins & CO
Clinton Place
E.m.bodine
Spencer
Washington Bt
Bozton
Auremarle
Charlottesville
Virginia University
Jay Bronson
Mick
Delightful Co
St Drug & Fancy
Mount Lan F'G CO
Cincinnati
Lito Elastic
Hernia
A Fuels
REED
State Whent
Chicago
Ill
John Worth & CO
St. Louis, Mo
Dan
Worl
Broadway
Joan U. Sherfey
Fourth Street
St. Louis
Mayes Tandwens
E. F
Clark Street
Ochespest
Agenta Everywhere
Star Nation Co
W K. Lanphear
Bauixoma
Cureanour
York
Sewell
Alfred L. Sewell
Richards
JT Richards
Franklinst
and Sankey
Great Britain
M. A. Parker & CO
Chicago, Ill
G. F. Boster, Sons& CO
National Publishing CO
Cola
Norton
Oata
An & Family Story
Monte Iomon
Bent
Adarene Glore Punlisming CO
Maun
N. F. Burnstam
Vamphict Fee
N.F
Bokshass
Madame Foy
VOY & Marmon
New Haven
Sar Rue Poteet
Meera
Feit Express
Acenta
New York
Horton
Dbisvonperérik
Stroy
Amefto T
An.k
Tux Uni Deere the Owl
Germaine Unsistead Precfarsizi
Desert Ink
Monash Tera
Wo Scammell & CO
Chicazo
Lossi Ae Centennial
Presidenteo
Excelsior Manufacturing CO
N. Main Bt
Soli
Vibrators
Liniment
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