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Agricultural Almanac for the Year 1878, circa 1878
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Title: Agricultural Almanac for the Year 1878
Identifier/Call Number: MS.583
Contributing Institution:
Autry National Center, Braun Research Library
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 volume
Date: 1878
creator:
Egelmann, Charles Frederick
creator:
Ibach, Laurence J.
creator:
John Baer's Sons.
Almanac was printed and sold by John Baer's Sons located on #15 North Queen Street. The Southwest Museum recieved 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.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of Mrs. Thomas Evans 1975 January 17.
Collection is open for research. Appointments to view materials are required. To make an appointment please visit http://theautry.org/research/research-rules-and-application
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Material is in public domain. All requests for use to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the
Autry Archivist. Use of publication is given on behalf of the Autry as 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 National Center, Los Angeles; MS.583.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Almanacs, American