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A BLACKBERRY FARM

... BLACKBERRY FARM. The greet Blackberry farm of this part of the coon try, and, ve believe, the chief of all that supply San Francisco with its tons daily daring the season, that of Messrs. Trnbody on the line of the Napa Valley railroad, seven miles above ...

Published: Saturday 27 November 1875
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 570 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

USEFUL HINTS

... doubtful, sprinkle little •alt on the under and spongy part; if tarns yellow they are poisonous, if black they are good.” # Blackberry Wise.— Measure your hemes and oruise them; to every gallon adding one quart boiling water. Let the mixture stand twentyfour ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1879
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 701 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BISHOP’S LYDEARD

... open his house, on the I7tb inst, on the occasion of the ploughing match dinner. BRIDGWATER. Blackberries.—Daring last week nearly twelve tons of blackberries, representing in value about £250, and for which local dealers had paid 2d. per quart, were ...

Published: Saturday 13 October 1877
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 929 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A TARADISE FOR VEGETARIANS

... tomatoes, mushrooms, egg-plant, and scores other vegetables are cultivated and thrive well. r£trawherries, raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, whortleberries, currants, and other berries flourish. There is scarcely a day in the year when strawberries ...

Published: Saturday 11 December 1875
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 192 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE WEST SOMERSET FREE PRESS

... POETRY. IN SCHOOL DAYS. Still sits the school-house the road, A ragged beggar sunning; Around it still the sumachs grow, And blackberry vines are running. Within, the master’s desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official; The warping floor, the battered scats ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1870
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PREHISTORIC GRAIN AND FRUIT,

... There have further been found abundantly the stones of sloes, bird cherries, and wild plums, and seeds of the raspberry’, blackberry, and strawberry, showing that these fruits of the foreet were used food. According to Dr. Keller, the lake colonists of ...

Published: Saturday 14 August 1875
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 474 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ACTION FOB DAUAGBS FOB PEBSONAL

... they had heard the evidence they wonld see that tbs act of the defendant waa a pure accident; that the boy was gathering blackberries fa tha hedge and was unseen by the defendant. The defendant was called, but His Lor iship thought there was defence point ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1873
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 482 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE PLAGUE OF GRASSHOPPERS

... and peaches were left untouched, and whilst making desolate the raspberry bushes, they spared the strawberries and the blackberries. For lace curtains they displayed a singular fancy, and if a parlour window was left open thousands fluttered about the ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1874
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 655 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

INTIMIDATING WORKMEN

... dangerous condition at the hospital, and the husband is still large. _ A Surfeit op Blackberries —Thedeath of Thos. Cottenden, aged eleven years, from eating blackberries, was reported the coroner for West Kent, on Saturday, The deoaased, who was the son ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1877
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 3409 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AMERICAN ITEMS

... of apples known b? 1,800 names ; 2,200 pears, 150 of plums, SOOof our native grapes, 50 currants. 80 raspberries, and 30 blackberries. The aggregate value of the tobacco crop the Con nectlcut valley about 4.000.000 dola. The large packinghouses In Hartford ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1875
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 947 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AMERICAN SUMMER DRINKS

... sugar, and water; this is also charged with gas. Mineral waters, such as lemon, strawberry, raspberry, sarsaparilla, and blackberry, are composed of nothing but sweetened water, flavoured and charged with gas. The ingredients of cherry tonic m*© not known ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1874
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1297 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SELECTED ANECDOTES

... sided with her, and others against her, and maid the Babel that followed could be heard such exclamations as “Sty up!” “Nice blackberry are 1” Wipe off your chin 1” Hire hah t” etc., when motion to adjourn waa serried by large majority. A Specimen of Bhitansia ...

Published: Saturday 28 October 1876
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1433 | Page: 4 | Tags: none