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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1902
Page
8
The farmers of Northern Middlesex are invited to share short, pithy lines for the agricultural column. Readers with only a few lines to say may write in, and the editor will edit for publication, avoiding long-winded discussions.
A poetical meditation on work as divine blessing where Jesus shares in the toil of laboring people. It portrays the Lord entering homes, lifting burdens, and bringing courage, patience, forgiveness, and cheer to a weary age.
A pamphlet from the department of agriculture titled Farmers' Bulletin No. 157 by L C Corbett, horticulturist, explains plant propagation using cuttings, layering, grafting and budding with plain language and illustrations for novices. It notes that fall planting is popular as September ends haying is prolonged by fickle weather and spring plantings can be done in fall.
A condensed survey notes California as a top three bean producer with claims of superior quality versus New York and Michigan. It covers farming quirks from a 25 mile corn circle in Kansas to peach-hail in Georgia, slow tomato growth, and tests of Paris Green versus Bug Death by Maine potato growers. It also notes E P Powell recommending althea shrubs for late summer to farmers wives.
A reader recounts July correspondence to the Journal about rights of lands against highways. They acknowledge Judge E H Bennett's treatise and its views, note the 1899 legislative acts abrogating former law, and express inability to reconcile custom with statutory change. The letter ends hinting at a forthcoming meeting or argument to meet the issue.
In a letter from Townsend Harbor, GEO. PARKER laments the oddities of law that treat dead trees as his property while living ones need not be, and compares care and removal of trees to possible prosecutions. He rails at highway obstructions, road commissioners, and the loss of local pride in rural roads, calling for better highways and community involvement.
The article discusses the benefits of clean drinking water for swine leading to healthier, faster-growing hogs and better pork flavor. It also describes a strawberry runner cultivation method, detailing tying methods, tools, mulching, and resulting large berries with good flavor and color.
Agricultural notes discuss soil depth for tillage focusing on modest shallow plowing with heavy manure and humus for poor soils, and caution on excessive deep tillage. They advise spring manure on grass, warn commercial fertilizers’ expense, and cite salt’s potential benefits for farm animals. A tax circular outlines oleomargarine dye tests using Fuller's earth and benzine for cottonseed oil detection.
The article explains corn value at glazing and full cure, with 45 percent in ears and 65 percent in stalks. It notes the stalk's feeding value shifts from sugar to starch and woody fiber during ripening, reducing digestibility. It emphasizes cutting at the proper time and proper handling to maximize fodder returns.
A Country Gentleman correspondence notes sunflowers as deeply rooting, leaves and stubs yield potash and phosphoric acid upon burning, enriching surface soil. The writer observes vigorous corn on land once grown with sunflowers, praising crop vigor. Professor Henry’s salt feeding experiments at Wisconsin station address uncertain benefits of salt for animals.
The best fruit tree lists come from nearby successful growers. Buyers should map their orchard with each tree name and its supplier to locate dealers who substitute orders, noting that substitutions may occur but the map helps identify the firm responsible.
The article argues fall planting yields better nursery stock, fewer substitution risks, and easier handling. It notes nurseries often offer top varieties in autumn, fall plantings establish roots sooner, and trees will grow next season. It warns against buying from dealers lacking nurseries and stresses buying direct from reliable nurseries.
An interview with John Collins discusses the Angora goat industry in Arizona. He details crossbreeding with common goats, the value of goat hair for plush and shawls, dairy uses, and the practice of selling goats on the hoof driven through Tucson, noting challenges with theft by greasers and Indians.
The Philadelphia Press notes a rise in tenant farming from 25.5 percent in the first census to 35.3 percent in 1902, with owners and cash tenants changing share and a shift of farmers from countryside to towns seeking rents. It warns lighter land taxes for owners could halt this trend, arguing state interests suffer when land is cultivated by others.
A Baltimore American passage shows a woman insisting she will buy an expensive hat next fall while claiming her husband’s summer Panama purchase blocks her own new hat. The hostess laments the dispute as a domestic squabble in a social setting.
The September Century presents Hill and Russell on West Indian eruptions from the Dixie relief expedition. James Hague writes Our Equatorial Islands about Guano Islands in the Pacific. Cole’s wood engraving portrays Velasquez The Surrender of Breda. Other items include Eleanor Gates Prairie Girl, Civic Improvement, Godkin memories, Empress Dowager trip, Three Strange Animals, Confessions of a Wife, Hadley on Betting, William Watson poem, Elizabeth and Her German Garden, and a humor-filled remainder with four stories.
The September Atlantic opens with W. E. Burghardt Du Bois on Training of the Black Man and Talcott Williams on the New Navy of the United States. H. W. Horwill notes a National Standard in Higher Education. Hiller C. Wellman discusses libraries for children. Vida D. Scudder on Democracy and Society. Emily V. Mason returns to memories of the Civil War era hospital life. E. H. Russell presents Thoreau correspondence. Charles M. Harger writes on The Kansas of Today. Outdoor pieces by Eben Greenough Scott and Edward Thomas. Baroness von Hutton’s Our Lady of the Beeches, Aldrich short story The White Feather, Turner's The Place of Darkness, Sibley sketches On the Offshore Lights. Poems by Macy, Dorr, Tabb, Pollock, Chadwick.
Ralph Connor's new Glengarry stories headline Leslie's Monthly September number. The first installment of the Autobiography of a Thief presents the thief’s boyhood and rise, tracing his path from youth to hardened criminal with vivid realism.
Senator Lodge and Senator Gibson contribute to the September National on major public problems. Poultney Bigelow on a German Water Party, Joe Mitchell Chapple on Affairs at Washington, Putnam on national coal mine ownership, Cleveland on New Mexico women seeking statehood, Bergen on stock company theatres, and Captain McGray outlines J Pierpont Morgan plans. Notable fiction and poetry by Jefferson, Peake, McCants, Dillman, Fink, and Eva Hampton Prather.
A Septembers St Nicholas features Hilarity Hall by Carolyn Wells about eight girls at a seaside cottage, plus many good pieces. The Little Colonel by Mrs. Guy W. Henry, How the Weather is Foretold by Clifford Howard, A Little Journey Through the Air with suspended cars, and Marty Brown Mascot by Ralph Henry Barbour highlight the issue.
A department titled The Young Folk's League features capital contributions from the league's own young readers. The section reflects early civic engagement and community voices shaping the program.
Lippincott's Magazine released its September issue dated August 21 featuring the complete Ellen Olney Kirk novel. The issue also includes short stories by Josiah Flynt Ina Brevoort Roberts Karl Edwin Hariman Lily Munsell and Eben E Rexford with themes ranging from Western tramp tales to domestic tension and seasonal garden guidance.
In the September issue of Success John Gilmer Speed analyzes the beef trust and its aims. David Buffum presents The Correct Method of Training Horses. Martha Mc Culloch-Williams offers The Idlers a story of outdoor life. Stewart Edward White debuts a new serial The Magic Forest about a boy lost among Canadian Indians. Henry Van Dyke, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Wu Ting-fang contribute editorials and impressions on education and America. Twenty eight notable contributors are listed.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Arlo Bates travels in Europe and Venice as the Campanile falls. The Bookman lists top selling titles including The Mississippi Bubble by Emerson Hough and The Diary of a Saint by Arlo Bates. Publishers announce September fiction and non fiction releases across history biographies and essays with notable editions of Hawthorne and New France.
The Suffolk letter argues silos are invaluable to dairy farming, enabling succulent winter cattle feed and higher output per acre. It notes silage preserves corn better than traditional curing, reduces weather risk and cost, and generally yields profit, with few exceptions for poor land or imperfect curing.
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