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What Young People Should Know: 1867
The following excerpt from the “Old Farmer’s Almanac” of 1867 is titled What Young People Should Know and it provides some perspective on the expectations of rural youngsters in that day and age. The best inheritance that parents can ...
Farm Life, by John Burroughs: 1887
farm life, social distempers, This essay is from the “Old Farmer’s Almanac” of 1887 and is titled FARM LIFE. The byline of John Burroughs accompanies the entry. Burroughs was born on a farm in New York’s Catskill Mountains. ...
Fattening Poultry: 1867
The following essay comes from the 1867 “Old Farmer’s Almanac” by Robert B. Thomas. It is of no use to put up a skeleton and expect to make a fine, fat, tender-meated fowl of it by feeding in confinement. Fattening is adding fat to lean ...
Getting Started & Finding My Way (Part 13)
This is part 13 in a series of essays about when I was a young man (30+ years ago) trying to figure out how to “make it” in the world. Click HERE to go back to the beginning of the series. ============================================= ...
Labor: 1849
From The Old Farmer's Almanac of 1849... LABOR Ho! ye who till the stubborn soil, And guide with skill the plough; Who bend beneath the summer sun, With burning cheek and brow-- Ye deem the curse still clings to earth ...
How to Lengthen Life: 1857
This excerpt, titled, "How to Lengthen Life," comes from the 1857 edition of Robert B. Thomas's Old farmer's Almanac. How to Lengthen Life: A venerable minister, who has preached some sixty-five years in the same place, being asked what ...
How To Shorten Life: 1857
The old farm almanacs will often give advice on how to lengthen one’s life. In this excerpt, from the 1857 edition of the “Old Farmer’s Alamanac,” we get advice on how to shorten life. How to Shorten Life: ...
Honor The Wife: 1888
This excerpt from John Ploughman is found in the Old Farmer's Alamanac of 1888. John Ploughman is a fictional character created by Charles Haddon Spurgeon in his book, John Ploughman's Talk. Spurgeon was an English preacher and social ...
Some Examples From My Almanac Collection
I currently have around 100 different Old Farm Almanacs from the 1800’s in my collection. All of them are from the New England region of the United States. There were three major almanacs published in that area during nineteenth century ...
English almanacs, astrology and popular medicine: 1550-1700 ...
Almanacs - Great Britain - History - 17th century. Medical astrology - History - 16th century. Medical astrology - History - 17th century. Medical literature - History - 16th century. Medical literature - History - 17th century. ...