Subscribing Offer and Women Editors Highlight Poultry Review
The Poultry and Horse Review offers a $1 yearly subscription and a sample copy, with a call to gain one new sub by March 1, 1803. Editor Mrs. E J Schofield, known in Providence and Newport, leads the magazine and a penmanship school while receiving praise as a prominent, stylish female editor. Two women are named among five World’s Fair dog show judges, including a young New England woman who rears St Bernards.
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Home Remedies and Domestic Cures From Old Notes
A pasted mix of lard and chalk promises corn cure, salt added to a stove fire, nitro for fevers, ten drops every four hours, a flexible colloction for cracks, keep it airless. Coffee grounds dry to fill pin cushions behind the stove. Tus grease eradicator recipe yields fortune. two ounces ammonia and soap shavings in salt water with saltpeter.
The Long Engagement in Love and Life
Cynthia Marlowe argues that long engagements are risky for women, delaying marriage, harming social standing, and draining beauty and spirit. She contends engagements should reflect genuine commitment, yet warns of fragile bonds when finances or certainty lag, and urges a fair moral standard for breaking engagements.
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Rheumatism Relief After Using St Jacobs Oil
Ithaca reader Jos Edsell testifies after using two bottles of St Jacobs Oil for rheumatism. He reports marked improvement with limbs once stiff now light and limber, praising the remedy in a dated 1881 Ithaca advertisement.
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Endorsement for St Jacobs Oil from Ithaca Reader
In Ithaca on July 5 1887 a reader states long standing hip injury caused rheumatism muscular weakness and contracted cords. After using two bottles of St Jacobs Oil the writer can walk again and perform daily duties and offers a hearty endorsement.
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Improve a Flock with Thoroughbred Cocks For Small Farms
The article advises farmers to improve ordinary yard fowls by replacing males with thoroughbred cocks in a systematic plan. It suggests starting with Light Brahmas, then White Leghorns, then Brahmas again, alternating with other strains as needed, to boost size, flesh quality, and egg production while maintaining profitability.
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Salt Harmful to Pigs Warns English Vet
An English veterinarian warns against salting pigs and suckling sows. He notes salt poisoning can occur in large quantities and salt should never be placed in the piggery. He cites brine, waste, dishwater soda and boiled salt meat liquor as dangerous factors.
How to tell if a queen bee is safely introduced
A method from the American Bee Journal notes that fifteen to twenty minutes after releasing a queen you should disturb the bees with smoke or jar the hive. If the workers do not pounce on her, close the hive and ignore the introduction for now. A queen is safely introduced when the bees show deference or feed her, especially in summer when she begins laying.
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Cornell bulletin on tomato culture by Bailey and Corbett
Professors Bailey and Corbett outline tomato treatment updates and confirmations. Emphasis on early setting to extend bearing before frost and planting nearly flat with half the stem covered. Single stem training yields earlier fruit and later sowings improve total yield. hilling and trimming are not advantageous. Nitrate of soda aids poor soils but little else.
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Practical Farming and Garden Tips for Spring
Advice on preserving stock water, wagon tires, and ice storage. Tips for root cuttings for hops, oak galls attracting ants to kill caterpillars, and planting currants berries and strawberries. Recommends Parker Earle strawberry as promising for general culture and notes its vigor and fruit quality.
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Practical Guide to Room Fumigation Instructs on Sulfur Fumigation
The article provides step by step directions for fumigating a room with sulfur. It covers closing doors and cracks, placing sulfur in multiple pans, lighting from farthest to nearest exits, and maintaining six hours of exposure. Afterward, it prescribes thorough cleansing and whitewashing.
How to Make Milk Paint for Barns
Make milk paint by mixing water lime with skim milk to reach proper consistency. Dissolve coloring water in whisky and add to paint for desired color. For outbuildings this paint is almost as good as oil and can outlast it.
How to Take a Salt Water Bath at Home
A cup of rock salt added to bath water eases shock for those who cannot endure a plain cold bath and refreshes the body like a sea bath. Salt dissolves quickest in warm water. mix in a bowl then pour into the cold bath. A warm bath at 85 to 90 degrees may aid a restless or feverish child by inducing sleep. After bathing, do not rinse the skin. rub with the hands to dry.
How to Clean Clock and Watch Movements
The text instructs dampening, not wetting, a carpet with warm water and a cloth. It mentions using soap and brush on soiled areas and describes cleaning clock and watch movements with Ri YWareDe water, a teaspoon of liquid ammonia or alkali, and grated soap. It advises drying, polishing, and storing the preparation, adding alkali if strength wanes.
Care of Flowers and Home Remedies from Old Guide
The text advises wrapping flowers in wet tissue to keep them fresh for longer and describes a home fragrance recipe titled How to Make Excellent Cologne. It lists ingredients such as camphor ambergris lavender oil civet and bergamot for two pints of spirits, to be shaken daily for weeks before use. It also gives a stain removal method using pumice stone lime verdigris soft soap and a wool rag.
How to Clean All Kinds of Metals
Wet a woolen rag in a mixture of refined neatsfoot oil and turpentine. Dip in powdered rotten stone and rub the metal briskly. Wipe with a soft cloth and polish with dry leather.
Mirror placed in stove pipe at 45 degrees
A mirror positioned in the stove pipe hole at a 45 degree angle reflects the sky light into the chimney interior. If the sky is visible through the opening, the interior of the chimney can be seen as well, suggesting a simple observational setup.
Protect Fruit from Birds with Traditional Seedlac Mixture
Recipe-like note describes mixing three ounces seedlac one ounce turmeric one quarter ounce dragon’s blood and a pint of alcohol to stand a week before shaking and filtering. It also gives a bird deterrence method using a brown thread tied to a tree twig and stretched across branches in multiple directions.
Leather Care Instruction From Historic Guide
The passage instructs soaking leather in a weak soda and warm water solution for two hours, rubbing to clean, rinsing in a weekly soda and yellow soap solution, wringing and drying quickly, then pulling and brushing thoroughly. It reflects traditional cleaning methods.
Two Ships by H Muriel Patriarche
A poetic contrast shows Pride steering a grand ship toward Fame and Wealth, leaving it wrecked. In contrast Love pilots a modest ship with white wings, returning laden with gold and pleasure, a tale of values vs. riches.
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Forty Years on the Hill in Pokumville Poetically Traversed
A narrator recalls life on Pokumville hill for four decades and convinces a companion Jim to travel west by train. Their journey along Niagara Falls, the Rockies, and the Pacific yields blunt observations of dirt, rocks, water, and distant landscapes, with humorous exchanges about seeing the world beyond their home.
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Mask of Joy Hidden Grief by Alice Mormon
A poem urges wearing a mask to hide sorrow as the speaker dictates a bright exterior while a broken heart and bitter tears lie beneath. The speaker questions public sympathy and pushes for a cheerful display despite inner anguish.
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