rebuilding a farm house into a thriving home
In a memoir style excerpt, Will and his wife transform a dilapidated Hubb’s farm into a flourishing home. They repair the yard fence, plant vines, upgrade the veranda, and decorate rooms with thrifted materials. A wandering painter becomes their helper, and a generous visit from Will’s father culminates in a large cash reward and gratitude for their perseverance.
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Will
Windny Essing
Mubb
Chow Will
Hite
Hin
The Kind They Raise at Yate and Blue Grass Notes
A Cleveland Leader recollection cites Major Calkins as authority on a Nevada anecdote about a saloon poker game with a one eyed stranger and a Yale graduate. The piece includes Blue Grass grassland praise and Missouri Experiment Station findings on waste products of flour mills, noting shipstuf fed at home yields more growth than corn and manure value.
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Cleveland
Calkins
Senator Tours
Nevada
Yale Colfee
Aya
Pour
Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station
Sanborn
Prof. Sanborn
Greece’s Agriculture and Railways in 19th Century Developments
The text describes modern Greece with 25,000 square miles and about 2,000,000 people, mostly farm dependent. It notes half the land uncultivated or improvable, forests one seventh, five fourteenths cultivated. main crops tobacco cotton vines cereals olives. Currant exports, olive trade, and narrow imports/exports totals are stated. Population works land, but poor capital limits cultivation. infrastructure like roads and railways lag, with only one railway from Pirmns to Athens. travel was difficult and government investment lacking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will
NASA
Wall
Jay
Sarah
Kensington Sitteh
Beas
Rom
Unr
Lomiemparars
Greees
Greece
Athens
Uty
Toada
Edmond Ahout
Roi Des Montagnes
Farm and Fireside Notes on Clover and Pigs
Agricultural guidance covers sowing grass like clover and timothy for strong sod, root depth benefits, and soil health. Pig feeding with shipstuffs improves lean meat yield, plus dental care tips for children from Warner's Annual.
Remedy for Grasshoppers by Frederick Pishor
Creighton Nebraska farmer Frederick Pishor shares a long tried solution for grasshoppers. He proposes burning sulphur and debris in piles across the windward field to generate smoke that blankets the crop. Pishor notes repeated success over years and varying field sizes with forty to fifty pounds of sulphur for eighty acres.
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Kim
Frederick Pishor
Creighton
Konx County
Neb
Rocky Mountains
Colman Lead Advocate for Creameries and Oleo Prohibition
The St. Louis Republican praises Commissioner Colman of the agricultural bureau as a strong foe of oleomargarine. It notes his focus on western interests and creameries in Missouri, credits strict state law for curbing oleomargarine, and says he seeks national prohibition by urging Congress to adopt it nationwide.
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Colman
St. Louis Republican
Agricultural Bureau
West
Missouri
Colman Propits
Congreas
Parsnips Featured as Wholesome Seasonal Veggie
A 19th century note extols parsnips as an older staple than potatoes, praising their value for beef and milling, and noting their tasty uses in winter storage. The piece mentions early spring digging, small plots, and summer sowing, recommending parsnips as a wholesome versatile vegetable for part of the year.
Staking out Strawberry Beds and Planting Methods
The article discusses timing for transplanting strawberry plants, recommending spring just as growth begins and post fruiting before dormancy. It describes methods: lifting plants in soil mass with a spade, setting into prepared openings, or transplanting in moist blocks for easier handling, and notes June conditions with Cumberland and James Vick varieties bearing well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
James Vick
Bad Condition of Winter Wheat
Reports of wheat conditions across the United States and Canada are deplorable with many farmers losing crops. The piece advises against plowing up fall wheat and stresses that a half crop with good grass catch is often better than disturbing rotation.
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United States
Canada
Chlorine as an air disinfectant and disease study
An extended extract describes Dr. Klein and colleagues testing chlorine fumigation as a method to hinder airborne transmission of a highly infectious disease in pig)stables. It notes that healthy pigs could share a compartment with diseased ones for up to six hours with chlorine air, and that a single fumigation could neutralize the virus after a diseased pig was removed.
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Klin
Klein
Starching and Ironing Instructions From Old Guide
Detailed household methods for starch preparation and ironing including dissolving satin glass, adding blue, boiling water steps, dipping fabrics, rinsing, wringing, drying, borax starch solution, rolling fabric, tying collars and cuffs, overnight timing, and polishing with a waxed paper and cloth. Emphasizes cleanliness of iron holder and ironing sheet and practicing on an old garment.
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Americia
Tito
Ward
Fiatlien
Brent
Geerdin
Palling
Honora
Varsis
Hubb
Hiaway
Yate
Waldon
Wevan
Wight
Io Shipstaff
Erepnat Whitchere
Warner's
England
Oxford
Cambridge
Germany
Africa
Mason and Dixon
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
Chirlea Mason
Jeremigh Dixon
Henry Clay
Nice
Cannes
Golden
Col
Europe
Anenum
West Virginia
Wheeling
Charleston
Kanawha
Clarksburg
Martinsburg
New York Sun
Madison Square Garden
Frederic Neilson
St. Bernards
Ireland
Peters Lunt
Blanford
Blandford
Bergt. Baglester
George
Georgy
Bubba
Petersburg
Tee Battery
Lam
Gen
Union
Eggleston
Peteraburg
E. Leniel
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