Treatment of Old Meadows and Top Dressing Practices
An exhaustive essay from the Massachusetts Ploughman's report discusses top dressing old sods in New England. It covers when to top dress, how to apply yard manure evenly, and the need to cultivate manure into roots. It warns that repeated top dressing requires reseeding to maintain English grasses and advises on field conditions and weed control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Warren Brown
New Hampshire
Boston Farmers’ Club
Massachusetts Ploughman
Maine greenhouse heated by kerosene lamps plan
A Maine correspondent explains an experimental greenhouse heated by kerosene lamps under tin boilers with iron pipe heating. It runs three winters, disconnected from other buildings, with a lean-to shed. Heating costs about 10 cents daily in severe weather, with temps 45 to 50 degrees inside when outside drops to 10 below. Screens and off-gas pipes are used. lamps lit at sunset and checked next morning, offering safe, low maintenance operation.
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Boner
Maine
Suffrage Progress and a Patent Cure Claim
The Boston Evening Transcript editorializes on a long, countrywide drift toward women’s equal rights with a chronology of suffrage milestones from 1845 to 1893 across states and nations. A reader in Iowa cites a local cure claim for rheumatism via Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, touting testimonials and local sellers in Indiana and surrounding towns.
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Boston Evening Transcript
Kentucky
Kansas
Wyoming
England
Michigan
Minnesota
Colorado
New Hampshire
Oregon
Massachusetts
Vermont
New York
Scotland
Nebraska
Wisconsin
New Brunswick
Washington
North
South Dakota
New Jersey
Idaho
Arizona
Montana
Illinois
Connecticut
New Zealand
Notable Patent Remedies and Anecdotes From Local Ads
Snippets show Hood’s Sarsaparilla testimonial from A. E. Sharpe of Bellville and an advertisement for Bucklen’s Arnica Salve listing its wide range of uses and a 25 cent price, plus fragmentary jokes, crime quip, and claims of a “Mystic Cure” for rheumatism with local pharmacists Herrick Bros. Indiana PA and a 15 Jun 1894 dating note.
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Herrick Bros., Druggists
Indiana
T. F. Anthony
Promise City
Iowa
Herrick Bro S
Potato crop failure and vine acreage in western New York
A Rural New Yorker correspondent notes a poor season for potatoes where the prior crop grew, despite sublimated seed, tubers were misshapen. Western New York has 50 000 acres in vineyards and last season yielded about 8000 carloads of fruit, the longest harvest on record. The gathering employs 20 000 people. Farmers are urged to enrich soil with clover and sheep grazing to curb milkweed. Institutes and farmers meetings have done great national good. A move to consolidate Amherst based agricultural corps. Rot in greenhouses blamed on dry air by W W Rawson of Boston. It is common to see this rot also.
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New Yorker
New York
Amherst
Mass
Conanae
W. W. Raweon
Boston
Castoria grows with garden season sales pitch
When Baby was sick we gave her Castoria. When she was two, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss she clung to Castoria. When she had children she gave them Castoria. Garden making season is at hand. Don’t waste seed, visit A. T. Lowry & Co's for supplies.
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Castoria
Miss
A. T. Lowry & Co
Agnes
Salm
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Jonathan Kenison
Polan, Worth Co
Ft. Morrison
Chamberlain
Daugherty Bros
M. G. Miller
Blairsville
W. I. Moore
Homer City
RN. Parks
Marion Center
Hood
A. E. Sharpe
Bellville
Bucklen
Tom E. Hildebrand
Wm. I. Moore
Milt G Miller
Jly
Washington Star
Ira
I. Hood & Co
Lowell, Maas
W.H. Heffner
Alvira, Pa
Leanne Hood
C.S. Apple
Hall Building
Philadelphia St
Mr. W. Ib. Heffner
Jas. A. White
Wace
J. H. Wolearn
J. H. McLean
St. Louis. Me
F. J. Johnson
Hugh Tack
General Merchandise
Clyde, PA
L. J. White
Wheeler
North 5Th St
the Atlantic Refining Company
Pittssurch Department
Pittsburgh, Pa
Vicinity
J. F. Barnes
Indiana, Pa
Radaker Hands & Co
Moritz Salm
Pennay
Kittanning—Reynolds
Apollo—Chambers
Bellefonte, Pa
I. N. Faswaves
Salim
Saba
Galitzin, Pa
Sabn
Mr. Salm
Jonarmas Lirz
Tannersville, Centre Co
Sayue
Ted Perce
Sopma Huey
Two Lick
Indiana Co
Dr. Seine
Clyde
Pine Glenn
Centre Co
Box 760
Columbus
Ghia
Vogel Bros
Vogel Brothers
Sixth St
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