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Agricultural Almanac for the Year 1878
MS.583
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Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: Agricultural Almanac for the Year 1878
Creator:
Ibach, Laurence J.
Creator:
Egelmann, Charles Frederick
Creator:
John Baer's Sons
Identifier/Call Number: MS.583
Physical Description:
1 volume
Date: 1878
Language of Material:
English
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Almanac was printed and sold by John Baer's Sons located on #15 North Queen Street. The Southwest Museum received it as a
gift of Mrs. Thomas Evans, 1975 January 17.
Published: Lancaster : printed and sold by John Baer's Sons, 1877
Farmer's Almanac, 1878 edition, published in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Contents: How may we best improve the farm? -- Golden rules for bee keeping -- Precautions against fire -- A drunken farm
-- How to make Vienna rolls -- Beware of the spitz dog -- A queer way to harden butter -- About our foods -- How to protect
quail -- Working land on shares -- How to physic a pig -- Heat for house plants -- How to make a lactometer -- The disposition
of cattle -- Handy helps -- Experience teacheth -- Breeding swine -- Tar on fruit trees -- Seed potatoes -- Hints about milking
-- A farmer's barometer -- How to get rid of tree stumps -- Give the boys a chance -- Effects of climate on plants -- Cultivation
in season -- To preserve smoked meat -- Poor crow -- The old farm gate (poem) -- A good wash for trees -- Measuring corn in
bulk -- A fight between a sea-serpent and a whale -- Dining comfortably -- Anecdotes -- Recipes -- Anatomy of man's body as
said to be governed by the twelve constellations.
Gift of Mrs. Thomas Evans 1975 January 17.
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the custodian of the physical item.
Full title: Agricultural almanac, for the year of our Lord 1878 : Being the second after leap year, and until the 4th of July,
the 102d 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 1878, circa 1878, Braun Research Library, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.583.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Almanacs, American