Home Farm and Warden Advice From The Telegraph
The Germantown Telegraph suggests early autumn pruning for fruit seeds and vines, notes pear crops fetch best prices, and contrasts horse fattening methods with French draught horses. It also gives recipes for a moist white cake and a chicken pie, plus farm hygiene tips like dry road dust for hens and dusting stock.
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Germantown Telegraph
Detroit Post
Agriculturist
Recise
No. Herald
Merror
Weighing the Revolution's Generals in 1820 Letter
A Bangor letter from 1820 recounts weights attributed to Revolutionary officers at West Point. Names include Washington 209 pounds Lincoln 221 pounds Knox 200 pounds Huntington 17 pounds Grenton 168 pounds Swift 21 pounds Jackson 262 pounds Cobb 154 pounds Humphrins 221 pounds. The note, written by Joseph May to General David Cobb, reflects on friendship and the afterlife.
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Bangor
Boston
David Cobb
Gouldsborough
Hayes
Jackson
Westpoint
Washington
Lincoln
Knox
Huntington
Grenton
Swift
M. Jackson
H Jackson
Humphrins
Ceneral
J. May
Nautical Curiosity: A Muslin Canoe From Frankford
John Crankshaw Jr of Frankford builds a fourteen foot long canoe using heavy muslin and barrel hoops. The frame uses pine knee knots and slips, covered by oil soaked muslin to form water tight compartments. Weighs thirty eight pounds after coating, tested on the river daily.
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John Crankshaw, Jr
Frankford
Green Food for Swine and Grass Fed Hogs
Nebraska agricultural expert S R Thompson argues green food yields thriftier larger hogs with better bone development. Grass fed hogs resist disease better, especially hog cholera, and rye pasture will cheaply feed hogs through fall and spring with clover and timothy as backups. Sorghum and brown durra offer drought resistant forage for midsummer feeding.
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S. R. Thompson
Nebraska
Missouri
Preserving Salt Meat and Brine Safety
Advice from New England Farmer and Chicago Journal guidance on meat preservation. Use pure salt and proper brining to prevent spoilage. cut meat finely, boil brine to remove impurities, and keep meat submerged under weighted covers. Proper temperature and repeated boiling reduce spoilage risk.
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New England
Dairy experiment stations and a record Holstein cow Echo
The Dairy highlights a need for public spirited wealth to establish a dairy experiment station and school. It notes Echo the Holstein at Maplewood stock farm Attica NY with a yearly milk record of 18120 pounds over ten years, plus daily and monthly yields and the dairymen’s insights on milker dispositions and cattle management.
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Echo
Fred. C. Stevens
Maplewood
Attica
N. Y
Prees
Nfo Furmer
How rennet forms curd and its dairy dangers
The article explains rennet's action in turning milk to curd through stomach membrane oxidation and oxygen exposure. It notes that diastase from malt can imitate rennet after air exposure and warns about improper aging leading to putrefactive fermentation and spoiled cheese.
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Peoria Steam Granite and Marble Works
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Peoria
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Jeware
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Cleveland
Ohio
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Rennet
China
Magneton Appliance CO
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Chicago
Conta Bend
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Panoy
Auddress
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Janesyville
Wlne
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Caaege
Chicaco
Rock Island & Pacific R’y
Joliet
Ottawa
la Salle
Geneseo
Moline
Rock Island
Davenport
Muscatine
Keokuk
Knoxville
Oskaloosa
Fairfield
Des Moines
West Liberty
Iowa City
Atlantia
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Great Rock Island
Pullman
Missouri River
Minneapolis
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Seneca
Kankakee
Newport News
Richmond
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
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Council Bluffs
St. Paul
United States
Canada
R. R. Cable
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