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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1885
Page
4
Practical advice on when to turn stock to pasture, avoiding soil poaching and root damage, and ensuring sufficient grass growth before grazing. Notes on how cattle horses and sheep differ in grazing, with emphasis on maintaining soil and root health, plus cautions about bloat and scouring from rapid diet changes. Also mentions butter making and market demand in Berkshire county.
A farm advisory on meadow and pasture seeding urges timely spring sowing and using seed suited to spots. It warns Timothy grass fails in close grazing while clover risks freezing out, favors Alsike on heaving soils, and extols orchard grass and Red top for moist or good soils.
The city hosts a rush for annual plant purchases to brighten windows and beds. Advice covers inclosing pots in paraffin paper, moss for moisture, and careful watering to avoid drying or waterlogging. A Springfield correspondent recalls a son lost in Arctic expeditions and his mother’s steadfast faith, aided by mediums and a clairvoyant, to grasp his fate. Orion Clemens, Mark Twain’s brother, lives quietly in Keokuk with his wife and mother, sharing stories of Sam Clemens’s boyhood, school, and river life.
A Berkshire County farmer explains to Scientific American his method for producing quick-selling high-priced butter. He prioritizes quality over profit, discards oil meal, reduces butter quantity and manure value, and moves cows from basement cellars to improve product.
An extract from the British Medical Review argues that rising facial and scalp neuralgia in women may be worsened by fashion and inadequate head protection. It notes cold exposure on nerves and cites one cured case where protecting the face and scalp improved symptoms, urging fashion reform to safeguard health.
A 14 year old boy named Cuffee, described as a darkey, fishes in the river when a large crab grabs his hook and pulls him under. He slips his finger under the hook to secure the crab, the creature clamps his fore finger and nose with its claws. A passerby frees him by crushing the crab's claws with stones.
A moonshiner in Clare, Michigan, sold pine logs to a Saginaw lumberman last fall. He cut the ends to erase marks and resold the same logs, repeating the scheme until the logs were shortened from sixteen feet to two feet. The fraud grew more audacious with each cycle.
At West Ansonia Connecticut a ten year old boy troubled by a seed wart on his foot had it pulled out by a rooster’s beak during a dinner crumb raid. The wart was rooted and the wound healed in days with no further growth observed.
Holland becomes a skating world with canals frozen half the year. Women shop, men ride to church, postman and doctor travel on skates, and even pastors visit parishioners. Dairymaids and farmers move milk and eggs by skates. Spanish invasion era saw native troops maneuver on skates against Alva. Soldiers trained on skates for over 409 years.
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