How to Winter Cabbages in Cold Frames and Trenches
The article explains that cellars are often unsuitable for wintering cabbages and offers two reliable methods. Build a pit or cold frame with a six foot wide board frame, earth banks, and straw or leaves for insulation. Alternatively dig a trench a foot by a foot, place cabbages heads downward, cover with earth and mulch. Cabbages kept this way stay firm and flavorful, and can be used from early winter through April or May after a cold water rinse. It warns warm cellars cause decay and cites Cobbett on the risk of putrid cabbage.
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Cobbett and
Fessenden
Old
New England Farmer
Bridgeman
Schench
William Cobbett
New England
George
The Farmer’s Road to Stability and Success
A thoughtful essay from Western Rural argues that disciplined farming builds a secure life. It warns against multitasking ventures and debt, urges sticking to the farm, and praises farming as a steady, essential business resilient to panics.
Home and Farm Recipes for Winter Pantry and Cooking
A collection of practical kitchen tips and recipes including preserving turnips carrots and parsnips, making fresh bread substitutes, pickled onions, a bread crumb poppin dish, and a pork sage sausage mix with methods for storage and cooking. The notes reference Country Gentleman and offer tips on poultry feeding troughs and pumpkin pudding.
Training colts for safe harness work and patient guidance
A November letter to the Ohio Farmer argues that properly trained colts, handled calmly and harnessed early, are safer and more productive than forceful methods. The writer cites Kentucky practice and emphasizes patience, consistency, and using the cord to teach control.
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Tris Aubject
Saya T. F Kinase
Ohio Furier
Kentucky
Chestnut Tree Culture Praised for Timber and Food
The Columbus State Journal extols chestnut trees as a valuable crop for timber and chestnut bread, noting their importance in parts of Europe and Asia and their hardy growth on poor soil. It details plantings from nuts, seed harvest timing, and warns transplanting is difficult, urging youth involvement to foster profit.
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Columbus
State Journal
Italy
Spain
Europe
Asia
Ohio
Post office wit and clerks read curling letters in clever ways
A curious slice of old news notes post office staff decoding illegible dates and signatures, a bishop’s letters mailed from Rail near Reading misread as Oxon, and clerks routing mail cleverly to London and away from red tape. It also mentions an illustrated broadside for blacksmith shops and a Cleveland druggist praising Hamburg Drops as a universal remedy.
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Oxford
Samuel Wilberforce
Reading
Oxon
Samuel
Deshire
S Oxon, Esq
Keil
Bishop
London
Stokeant
Cleveland Penny Press
Menitth
American Eagle
Uny
Cleveland
E. A
Sunlit rooms lift health and spirits in home notes
The piece extols bright sunlit rooms with bay windows to invite sunlight and fresh air, arguing light improves mood and vigor. It cites Lucy Larcom and a Marblehead Messenger anecdote, plus miscellaneous quotes about health tonics, household paints, and old time remedies.
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Chicago Inter-Ocean
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