Farming and Dairy Notes From Madison to New Jersey Gardeners
Farmers at Madison connecticut harvest nearly 600 bushels of corn for a sick neighbor. A New Jersey market gardener favors fall planting of asparagus and a Michigan inventor can fill 15000 tomato cans daily. Sanborn urges liberal salt in cow rations. proper hay and housing sustain cattle through winter. Hog care stresses clean dry spaces, water access, and patience in building a premium pork market.
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Madison
Conn
Michigan
New Jersey
Sanborn
Business For The Boys According To The Western Urals
Substantial moral guidance urges boys to learn agriculture by earning money and practicing business. The text discusses owning a calf or cow, paying for feed, and the father supplying grass and shelter, with the boy handling chores like milking and churning to gain practical experience in dairy commerce.
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Busiatt
On Behalf of the Hogs from I E Farmer Paragraphs
A reprinted section from I E Farmer discusses hog cleanliness and diet noting hogs prefer fresh grass and fruit to spoiled scraps. It connects hog health to owner family disease risks and mentions observing hogs in muddy, extended yard areas.
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I. E
How to Keep Onions From the Field to Storage
Onions should dry thoroughly then spread about a foot thick on a dry floor and freeze solid. After freezing they are covered with straw and thaw slowly in spring, staying fresh. Repeated freezing hurts them more than a single freezing. store in barrels or hang tied in strings to ventilated ceilings.
Marketing Poultry Quality and Packing Instructions
Guidance on raising, feeding, slaughtering, and packing poultry for market. Emphasizes corn as preferred feed for color and price gains, 24 hour prekill fasting, bleeding at the neck, immediate picking while warm, no wet picking, thorough blood removal, proper skin and bone trimming, avoid animal heat, cold but unfrozen storage, and quality segregation into 200 pound boxes with no paper or straw wrapping.
The Art of Daytime Sleep and Rest
Advice on curing sleeplessness by learning to nap during the day. The author notes many sleep aids exist but stresses daytime sleep as a key temperament tool, urging readers to practice napping when sleepy and to apply natural patience and discipline for daytime rest.
Quote from Titus Munson Coan on sleep and cure for thinking
The excerpt presents a Harper's Weekly quotation from Titus Munson Coan criticizing excessive thinking as ruinous to sleep. It urges readers to seek wisdom, noting gloominess harms rest and praises the idea of inventing sleep or a cure for overthinking.
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Cian
Frank Hamilton
Titus Munson Coan
Harper’s Weekly
One Woman Solves the Problem From the Christian Union
A wealthy woman with common sense becomes a chef and offers private kitchen services. After misfortune, she avoids teaching jobs and instead serves elite social circles with exquisite meals. Her cooking skills, delivered from a small bag, relieve hosts and command higher prices.
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Christian Union
It Is Not Infrequent That A Wife Mourns For Alienated Affection
A wife’s neglect of attentions is blamed for lost affection as this half moon tale contrasts a wife’s influence with a man’s need for trust. The article argues women’s advice is valuable and women can foresee issues and save fortunes when trusted.
Comfort at Home and Soldierly Conduct
Guidance on household manners and personal conduct stressing selflessness, promptness at meals, minimizing annoyances, offering sympathy, avoiding self or others faults, keeping order, helping others, careful door handling, quiet speaking, securing doors, oiling squeaks, not interrupting, thorough cleaning, polite treatment of servants, and seeking forgiveness for faults.
Ruskin Reflects on Reading Without Seafaring or Combat
In his final autobiographical chapter Mr. Ruskin notes he read Captain Marryat without desiring sea service, wandered Waterloo without wish to be a soldier, enjoyed Izaak Walton’s fishing without casting, and knew Cooper’s Deerslayer and Pathfinder by heart yet touched only the Popean or Gypsy's solitude.
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Mr. Ruskin
Capt. Marryat
Waterloo
Izaak Walton
Cooper
Pathfinder
Ideas of a Future State and Ghosts
A Cornhill Magazine excerpt traces how ideas of a future state shift from material burial to cremation, linking beliefs in a shadowy underworld with discarding the body and its clothes. It cites Herodotus and Periander to illustrate how ghosts need garments and how burning apparel spares the dead from nakedness in hades.
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Periander
Herodotus
Melissa
Hades
Cornhill Magazine
General Prendergast Hero in Indian Mutiny Tale
The article extols Maj. Gen. Prendergast as a Victoria Cross recipient who showed bold leadership at Jhansi during the Indian Mutiny. It recalls his early career with the East India Company military school and his rapid rise, detailing a dramatic action where he and his lieutenant saved a wounded sergeant amid ferocious melee and bayonet charges.
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Prendergast
Burmah
East India Company
Hugh Rose
Jhansi
Lieut
India
Manuel
Ancestral Growth Through Generations
In the text a man counts ancestors by generation from two parents to one thousand plus in later generations. It notes 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 1 024, 1 048 576 and 1 073 741 434 in successive generations as a demonstration of doubling lineage. The quotation ends with a reference to the Living Church.
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Tumber
Ohtoags Living Church
Cool cucumber stays slightly cooler than air
An Eng ang study shows the vegetable at a temperature one degree below its surroundings. The finding describes cucumbers as cool as a cucumber in scientific terms.
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Engang
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