Value of Peat and Muck as Fertilizers
Agricultural guidance notes varying chemical analyses on peat and muck as fertilizers. Ammonia content often far above yard manure, boosting value when correctly prepared. Recommend mixing muck with wood ashes and bone-dust, about ten bushels ashes and two bushels bone-dust per two cords muck, drained and aged six months to a year. Adds potash and acids to release ammonia for crops. Cost estimated five dollars for ash and bone-dust, yields six loads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niue
Succeeding Farmers By Self Reliance And Smart Upkeep
Advice on farm success stresses self reliance discipline and continual learning. It argues the farmer’s fortune comes from skill forethought and steady effort, not luck, with emphasis on quality marketable produces, honest weights and measures, and well kept farms including stock, buildings, roads, gates, fences, and gardens. It highlights farming as national strength and rewards from prudent investment in improvements.
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Syorth
Agricultural Notes and Poultry Remedies from Local Gazette
Agricultural notes advise cutting wood for winter use and storing it under cover near the house. Fat bacon mixed with pepper is claimed to cure cholera in chickens, with a teaspoonful given to each bird daily for three days, after which they recover and can be released. The Washington Town Gazette cites Mr Donahey of that price as supplying.
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Kitcher
American Poultry Journal
Washington (Town
Donahey
C.O.D
Balanga
A Hog Cholera Cure Recipe From a Historical Note
A historical recipe suggests mixing soft soap salt Peter copperas in swill to treat hogs. It instructs feeding forty hogs in one day, then adding carbolic acid black antimony sulfur and other ingredients to a separate swill to be fed over two days. The method is proposed to prevent cholera quinsy and pneumonia in hogs and is claimed effective for ten years.
Little Felixs and the Busy Baby
Advice for shaping children during cold days urges busy play from babies to older siblings. Simple activities like button molds blocks sand puzzles entertain and educate, while gentle praise and affection replace harsh punishment. The piece emphasizes maternal self-control and using kindness to foster happiness and obedience.
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Felixs
Amie
Bess
Julia
Satan
Miss
Household Receipts and Recipes From a Past Era
A fragment from a 19th century household guide covers pasta preparation with maccaroni notes on quality, cooking method, and storage. It includes Levon Merrvave recipe for a lemon egg dessert, plus a dubious relief remedy for headaches using almond oil molasses and laudanum applied warm with a sponge cake base.
Domestic Fashion and Cookery Notes from a Historic Page
A fragment recounts kitchen tips and household hints including preparing oyster plant by soaking and simmering with milk and crackers, and making wafers with butter milk wine and hour for rolling thin cakes. It also offers cautions on letting children wake early, reducing furniture friction with black lead, and a ginger molasses cookie recipe.
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the Herald of Health
Discovery of a New Mineral at Silver Islet Mine
Professor Henry Wurtz announced a new mineral found in ore from the Silver Islet Mine on Take Superior. The specimen contains silver and arsenic with iron zinc cobalt and sulphur and was named Huntlite in honor of Dr. T Sterry Hunt of Montreal.
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Silver Islet
Take Superior
Henry Wurtz
New York Academy of Sciences
Scientific Notes and Inventions in the Era of Telegraphic Curiosities
A collage of speculative science notes covering Perrodon’s Rubin kori coil for telephone sounding, insect communication by audible means, tiny tacks forged in England, proposed West Indian observatory near Kingston to issue time signals, Spalding diamond and other gems, hydrogen gas liquefaction under extreme pressure, rising New Zealand tin ore exports, Greffhale’s Zanzibar journey, a purity tester for cotton in silk, Paris Exposition catalogue paper from a Connecticut mill, American time-keepers in British railways, Schliemann’s Ithaca excavations, and a poisoning case in Rutland Vermont from Paris green.
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Perrodon
England
Kingston
Jamaica
Lhosé
West Indian Islands
Cape
Datoispon
New Zealand
Mount Bischoff
Mount Hemskirk
M. Greffhale
Zanzibar
Lamu
Pangani River
Geological Society of
Marseilles
Connecticut
House of Commons
Child Poisoning Incident From Paris Green Smoke
A boy in Iris accessed Paris green used nearby and ran through smoke, suffering arsenic like poisoning. He received antidotes and recovered, though the episode caused concern over exposure and safety around toxic garden substances.
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Iris Boy
An Editor’s Life and a Traveler’s Quip
A humorous slice contrasts editor stereotypes with a Hawkeye traveler’s Irish wit. An East Coast encounter in Portsmouth sparks musings on ancestors, the Mayflower myth, and Cunard steamers, ending with a wry jab at class and pretension.
Correct Speaking for Clear Language Use
The text promotes speaking and writing correctly by avoiding slang and aiming for elegant truthful expression. It urges youth to read books to form taste, acquire concise expressive language, and cautions against pompous phrasing while encouraging clear, terse speech.
Khedive’s Cairo Palace Fitted With Queen Anne Furniture
The Khedive of Egypt has fallen for Queen Anne furnishings. A Cairo palace room is being fitted with the style. He bought a cabinet in Paris for 10000 dollars and ordered additional pieces in similar proportion.
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Egypt
Cairo
Paris
Jaynes Sanative Pills Bannered For Liver and Stomach Aid
An old advertorial claim links headaches to torpid liver and disordered stomach or costiveness. It says Dr Jaynes Sanative Pills quickly relieve distress by benefiting the biliary organs and reduce the chance of a return. The copy cites names Rick Headache Lancuer and Metdanchoey as examples.
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Rick
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