Strong Trees and Clover Nurse Crop Dilemmas
A collection of farm notes on choosing robust trees and shrubs, cautioning that transplants need careful handling to avoid long recovery. It also covers clover care when nurse crops are cut, emphasizing timing and methods to preserve clover. Additional excerpts explain sheep ram conformation, horse terminology, butter salt distribution, and bacon hog rations to adapt feeds to moisture and season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Farmers’ Home Journal
Iowa Experiment Station
Cement on plank floor with risks and methods guidance
The letter outlines cementing on a plank floor with rigidity, 2.5 to 3 inches thickness, or a false floor below joists. It covers joist edge shaping to prevent cracking, achieving a surface above joist edges, water proofing measures, and cautions about thermal expansion. It also briefly mentions farming notes on cattle and poultry care.
Signs of Long Life in Medical Theory
A Tioga physician outlines physical indicators of longevity. He says large heart lungs and digestive organs signal longer life, with tall trunks and short limbs. He notes palm shape ear depth eye color nostril openness and other traits as general guides.
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Tioga
Philadelphia
New $20 Gold Coins Won’t Stack for Box Offer
The Philadelphia Press notes the new twenty dollar gold coins will not stack well for contributions, but they will fit the contribution box. The remark highlights a practical issue with the coin design despite its value.
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Philadelphia
Taylor's Cherokee Remedy Adverts Coughs and Lung Ailments
An 1880s style ad promotes Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullen as a powerful cure for coughs colds croup and consumption with bottles priced at 25 cents 50 cents and 1.00. The blurb also notes that many people’s independence masks stubbornness.
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Taylor
Purify These and You Will Be Safe From Contagion
Borax touted as a simple safe method to prevent typhoid by flushing unsanitary sinks and drains with a hot solution. Claims include disinfection, cleaning, water softening, and uses around the home. Offers a free Jingle Book with tops from Borax cartons and stamps.
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Borax
Pacific Coast Borax Co
New York
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Farm Journal
Keeding
California c Syrup Co
Ceorgias
Dajpeseness Coe Hoge
Evcant Anderson
American Post Company
Bloomfield
Gen. Grant
Hall
F. J. Curnrr & Co
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Cheney
Unnsr
Lombard
Augusta
Jersey
Jase Henderson
Wakelie
South Carolina
Pioneer Plant
Young
Martin's Point
S.C
Winchester
Avery & Company
Avery & McMillan
South Forsyth St
Atlanta
Frick
Virginia-Carolina
R. J. Redding
Georgia
Virginia-Carolina Speers Co
Richmond
Durham
Norfolk
Charleston
Beate Gic Ee Rae Orta
Tenn
Virvinl
Wintersmith
Food and Druge Act
Arthur Peter & Co., Gon’l Agts
Louleville
Wakefield
Charleston Wakefield
Carr-Carlton CO
Moggett
W.L. Amyay Oi
L. Downs
W. L. Don Talog
Megxett
B. L. Cox
Ethel S. C
W. A. Simpkins
Gainesville
H. H. Green
Necratists
Box
Johnson & CO
Boston
Mass
Peat Anam Lacan
Moran
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