The manufacture of beet sugar -- What a deed of a farm includes -- Ventilation of sleeping rooms -- How to water horses -- Land-owners' rights -- Milk-what is it? -- Healthfulness of apples -- Gospel law about lost things -- Some things for everybody to remember -- Important to know about insurance -- Colic in horses -- Use of salt -- Fruitfulness of a grain of wheat -- How to train a grapevine -- The best fruit to plant -- How to obtain the height of a tree -- Watering in a dry time -- A cure for hog disease -- To protect seed-corn from crows &c. -- Thanksgiving [poem] -- An affable manner -- The philosopher's stone -- A race for life [frontier tale about the Winnebago and Dakota Indians] -- Anecdotes -- Receipts -- Anatomy of man's body as said to be governed by the twelve constellations.
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Lancaster, Pa.
Date Issued
1881
Description
This publication was intended to be both useful and entertaining. It dealt with science, weather predictions, agriculture, and horticulture, providing information and advice on agricultural and horticultural methods, as well as much practical advice for domestic problems-- recipes, household hints, health care and cures for ailments. Articles kept the reader abreast of the latest inventions and the most recent developments in the areas of mechanics, engineering, meteorology, chemistry, astronomy, cultivation of plants, agricultural and animal husbandry tips, and the economy of the farm.
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Printed and sold by John Baer’s Sons, No. 15 North Queen street, east side, where German Almanacs may also be had, [1881]. Associated names: Clarkson, Edward (Engraver); Ibach, L. J. (Laurence J.); Ibach, William R.; John Baer's Sons,
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32 unnumbered pages
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fawa1881000000
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Printed and sold by John Baer’s Sons, No. 15 North Queen street, east side, where German Almanacs may also be had, [1881]. Associated names: Clarkson, Edward (Engraver); Ibach, L. J. (Laurence J.); Ibach, William R.; John Baer's Sons,
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1881
Date Text
1881
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1881
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32 unnumbered pages
illustrations ; 22 cm
Title Plain
Agricultural almanac, for the year of our Lord 1881 : being the first after leap year, and until the 4th of July, the 105th of American independence. Arranged after the system of the German calendars ... Carefully calculated for the meridian of Pennsylvania and the adjoining states.
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Lancaster, Pa.
Lancaster, Pa.
1881
Place
Lancaster, Pa.
Title
Agricultural almanac, for the year of our Lord 1881 : being the first after leap year, and until the 4th of July, the 105th of American independence. Arranged after the system of the German calendars ... Carefully calculated for the meridian of Pennsylvania and the adjoining states.
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Agricultural almanac, for the year of our Lord 1881 : being the first after leap year, and until the 4th of July, the 105th of American independence. Arranged after the system of the German calendars ... Carefully calculated for the meridian of Pennsylvania and the adjoining states.
Agricultural almanac for the year 1881 : 56th volume