Pruning and Fruit Tree Management From The Garden
A Garden writer advises rapid pruning as sap rises to avoid bleeding, with cautions on vines walnuts and apples. Remove crossing or misplaced limbs to expose sun, apply lime wash to canker and blight, and carefully prune plums cherries pears and peaches. For berries, thin and spacing varies by type. raspberries may be tied or bent, and avoid soil disturbance. Milk and pork pricing notes conclude with daily skim milk usage for swine feed, per J N Murcey.
Feeding Swine Experiments Highlight Growth and Feed Efficiencies
An 1881 note details two hog feeding trials. Six pigs, 437 pounds to start, gained to 613 pounds in 24 days on skim milk and shelled corn. A second trial tracked corn intake and a 303 pound gain in 12 days, showing 12.67 pounds of pork per bushel of corn. The piece notes limits of scientific comparison and broad implications for feeding practices.
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J. N. Murcey
National Stockman
Berkshire
Soil fertility and land selection for wheat crops in settlements
The article notes wheat prep benefits from clover sod, signaling phosphate deficiency when it fails. Pioneers favor high dry land to avoid malaria, while the worst fever zones lie near sandy soils by wetlands. Clearing the Black Swamp reveals soil that remains fertile longest under cultivation.
The Ham Sandwich: A Satirical Ode to a Modern Staple
A humorous essay extols the ham sandwich as a national emblem and social glue. The author traces its place in American life from lunch to picnics, mocks counterfeit versions, and jokes about politics and progress while defending the real article against imitations. George Swartwout signs off as its champion.
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New England
Prairie
Simon
Jacobs
General Jackson
Interior’ Department
David
Goliath
George Swartwout
Peck
Dogs at the White House Portico Visitors See Three Forsaken Hounds
A Philadelphia Times letter describes three forlorn dogs on the White House front portico watching the crowd. One is the famous yellow dog returning before the inauguration, another hungry companion, and a tall black dog. The trio have since stayed near the fountain and nightly beg for scraps at the kitchen doors.
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White House
Philadelphia Times
Mixed social notes and early science items in 1880s clipping
A long list includes a live toad thrown by a Mifflin County man, outbreaks of smallpox in Nanaimo, a three legged chicken in Washoe County, a massive Hudson River ice crop, Sitka school unrest, Easter marriage bookings in Palatka Florida, early Napa yields, urban idle figures in Eureka, and recalling wartime London. It also reports on Roebling’s caution about the Brooklyn Bridge, mad dog scares in Alabama, diverse diners in Greeley Colorado, Brooklyn Bridge profits and potential electric transit gains, Brigham Young polygraph trial disclosures, and demographic shifts in 1880. Additional items note common laborers, clergy, lawyers, actors, and journalists counts, a Pennsylvania temperance pledge by a Pennsylvania girl, a Wollstown New Hampshire death, and New York city aldermen habits, plus a salt well discovery in East Aurora and a Pennsylvania road rule. The piece ends with notes on foreign corporate licenses, a modern cab invention, and carriage design details.
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Mifflin County
Pennsylvania
Nanaimo
British Columbia
Washoe County
Nevada
Hudson River
Sitka Indian School
Palatka
Fla
Napa Valley
Cal
Eureka
Pacific Coast
London
Roebling
Brooklyn Bridge
Alabama
Boston Transcript
Greeley
Col
Brooklyn
Brigham Young
United States
Salt Lake
Wollstown
N.H
Tammany Hall
East Aurora
N. Y
New York
Biddle
Common Pleas Court of
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Press
Electro Osteotome Aids Cure Of Child’s Curved Limbs
A New York hospital report details the use of the electro osteotome to straighten severe bone deformities in a five year old Italian girl, Madelina Picchiella. Surgeons performed multiple wedge-shaped bone removals on the legs and arms with rapid, precise cuts, aided by protecting instruments and antiseptic precautions. The operation, witnessed by reporters, concludes with a stable post operative recovery showing minimal fever and strong indications of full recovery.
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Randall's Island
New York
Graduate
East Twentieth Street
Madelina Picchiella
Hallowell
New York Tribune
Divorce Granted Posthumously Over Soldier's Pension
Mrs. L A Summers of Groton won a case in which Judge A P Smith argued that John Summers private in the 110 th Regiment New York Volunteers was insane at marriage, allowing her pension back pay of over $1,000 and $8 monthly for life despite the death in the Ovid Insane Asylum in 1874. Corlland News notes the ruling may settle a broader issue of posthumous pension rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Summers
New York Volunteers
Ovid
L. A. Summers
Groton
A. P. Smith
Supreme Court
Pension Department
Smith
Ithaca
Corlland News
Secret Imperial Expenditure On Prince Imperial Christening
The Second Empire papers detail 598000 francs spent on the birth and baptism of the Prince Imperial. Medals cost 25000 francs, doctors and midwives 68000, wardrobe 100000, and generous allotments to artists, benevolent bureaus, and staff. The tally includes theatre gratis on March 18 1856 and various gratuities to relatives and servants.
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Second Empire
Prince Imperial
Department of the Seine
the Seine
Interior Service
Lycees
Frank Leslie
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England
New York Horticultural Society
Jersey
Lyon
Massachusetts
Country Gentleman
Ohio
Voelcker
Eugenie
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