Best Breeds of Sheep and Potato Grafting Notes
The Maine Farmer reviews long and short wool sheep, detailing Cotswolds, Leicesters, Lincolns, Downs, and Merinos with origins and traits. It also discusses potato grafting outcomes, noting snowflake and late varieties, grafting advantages, and four-year seed growth timelines.
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Maine
Bakewell
Robert Bakewell
England
Lincoln
Atlantic
Hampshiredown
Cotswold
Southdown
Saxony
Spain
Grafting Potatoes Demonstrated At Toronto Exhibition
A report on potatoes shown at the Toronto Industrial Exhibition describes grafting as uniting two varieties by inserting one eye into another. Rowe demonstrates that the eye grows and the offspring inherit traits from both parents, such as red skins with white eyes and other mixed progeny.
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Toronto
Rowe
Mr. Rowe
Noron
Sheep and Cattle Economics From Rural New Yorker
F D Curtis compares breeding and lambing yields for coarse, medium, and fine wooled sheep versus cows. Lamb value, wool price 35 to 45 cents per pound, six pounds per head typical wool yield. A flock of combing wool sheep can produce about ten dollars per sheep with dairy-maid care, equating to fifty dollars from five sheep, with caveats on flock size, care, and risk.
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F. D. Curtis
Nw Yorker
Soft Beds Debate Affects Infant Health And New Club Formation
The piece argues over soft versus hard beds for sleep with medical authority warning against hard beds for children and urging daily airing. It notes an emerging Kitty Hawk Bay Sportsmen's Club in New York City securing land in North Carolina for hunting and fishing, with W G Dominick among 25 charter members. A brief cartoon gag about a peanut stand follows.
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England
New York City
Kitty Hawk Bay Sportsmen’s Club
North Carolina
W. G. Dominick
Neuralgine praised by state librarian endorsement
Frank L. Haralson state librarian in Atlanta tests Neuralgine on himself and others and reports it a specific remedy for neuralgia and headache. He recommends it to the public and notes it is sold by all druggists. February 1880 endorsement.
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Frank L. Haralson
Atlanta
Messrs. Nutchison Bros
Frank L. Hararson
Brown Chemical CO
Baltimore
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