Farmer's Corner Notes from the North Middlesex Region
A rural column invites brief, concise farmer notes for Northern Middlesex discussion and experience sharing. The piece adds animal and crop anecdotes including a buckwheat and corn scene with a Bob White reference, plus reports from New Brunswick on buckwheat green feed and turnips as cheap livestock fodder. It also recounts a Cambridge Springs cow that bore four calves in 1897 and 1898 weighing about 2000 pounds together, shown at New England fairs.
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Cambridge Springs
Penn
New England
Editorial on farming lessons and regional agriculture
An editorial discusses dairy measurements and milk weight, notes Col. Waring’s influence, and critiques Secretary Wilson’s expansion ideas. It covers trout breeding tips, invasive wild carrot control, and urges enforcement of plant-cutting to curb pests. It promotes a State board of agriculture winter meeting at Amber on December 6 7 and 8 with lectures by Hale Willard Hills and St Phelps, inviting farmer clubs to send delegates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Agriculture
Amber
J. H. Hale
New England
S. D. Willard
J. L. Hills
Co. St. Phelps
Farmers’ Clubs
Oranges
Turner Maine Creamery and Dairy Farming Notes
Turner Maine boasts the largest grange hall in New England and a thriving dairy farming region. A farmer in Madison Maine reports two dogs killed thirty sheep, described as worse than worthless. The piece mentions Japan farming tools and Maine apple crop conditions, warning on hog health indicators and the hogs nose.
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Madison
Turner, Me
New England
Turner
Poultry Points on Winter Fowl Care and Egg Value
Ensilage as green food for fowls in winter is recommended and fresh eggs are cash. A light colored turkey is less wild than dark, and 80 hens can net $80. A pullet laid 296 eggs in September. Clean shells fetch higher prices than dirty ones. Green cut bone and Rowen aid late fall and winter laying. one pound feeds 16 hens. A Rhode Island College poultry house shows economy with barrel staves. Dressed chickens weighed 25 pounds and sold for a premium.
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Rhode Island Agricultural College College
Harvesting corn and cost questions stir farmer letters
Readers compare corn harvesting methods, weighing stalk cutting versus stover use, and discuss fodder value. A Concord Mass writer shares lifelong preference for cutting stalks and saving them. Another reader recalls potato costs, blight damage, and asks if mowing vines at blight onset saves tubers, requesting cost data from farmers.
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C. Stickney
Pomace fed to cows and potash benefits urged
A Massachusetts dairy opinion notes apple pomace fed into silos boosts cow cream production and profitability. It stresses clean cow housing, proper tonics caution, and warm water as a cold morning energizer. Prof. Brooks cites potash as key to richer soil, more milk, and fuller manure heaps while a Globe-Democrat piece discusses humane methods to cure kicking horses.
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Prof
Brooks Mass
Agr
Corn Harvesting Methods Through the Ages
A correspondent recalls past grain gathering methods, contrasting backbreaking labor with modern practices. She describes stacking, hauling, and husking in fields, then weighing the fodder and bagging corn for storage. The letter praises the efficiency of the new technique and its noon ration value.
Educate not force the colts says Maine Farmer
The article warns against whipping young horses to curb fear and shying. It favors gradual exposure and patience, noting many horses are damaged by harsh training. It suggests letting colts inspect objects, then proceeding once they realize danger is absent, and cautions that it takes decades to mold a well balanced person. It includes an unrelated medical note on chest pain, pneumonia risk, and Chamberlain's Pain Balm with local store citations.
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Maine
Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature
The brief item notes a signature line associated with a trusted brand tag long known as a staple of classic commerce. It references a familiar product line and a longstanding marketing claim about authenticity and reliability.
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Scastonria
Thanksgiving Storm Delays Universalist Service in Middlesex
Severe early November snowstorm disrupts services at the Universalist church with the morning gathering held at the Baptist church and the evening meeting omitted. Thanksgiving brings family reunions as the Hall family marks matriarch Emeline Hall’s 80th birthday. Isaac Reed dies on November 23 with funeral held at the Universalist church. Reed, 75, leaves three children, a son, several grandchildren, and a great grandmother.
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Universalist Church
Baptist Church
Hall
Emeline Hall
Emily Armstrong
Hyde Park
H. M. Knowlton
New Bedford
John
Washington
I. C. Knowlton
M Jecobs
Ayer
Hosmer
South Acton
C. H. Nash
Pentagon Club
Boston
The
Universalist Society
Isaac Reed
W. F. Dusseault
W. R. Buxton
Congregational Church
Eugene L. Hall
Mr. Reed
William Reed
Emma C. Hut
Concord
Ida Durkee
Isaiah Reed
Systematic and proportionate giving discussed by C E society
Dec 4 meeting led by Miss Carrie P. Webber considers systematic giving. Schools enjoyed Thanksgiving recess with extra day due to storm. most teachers out of town. Blizzard closed church doors on Sunday with limited train service. Rev Edwin Ray Smith and others visiting. violin lessons resume with Velma Cole. Monthly school reports requested by superintendent L T McKenney. district includes Bedford Billerica Burlington and Lincoln. Attendance figures given. October banner shifts announced. Rev Edwin Smith to preach Say so in morning and There shall be no more aea in evening. last Sabbath services canceled by storm.
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C. E. Society
Carrie P. Webber
Edwin Ray Smith
Farmington
Bedford
Billerica
Burlington
Lincoln
Talbot 2d
Burlington Grammar
Lincoln Centre
Banner School
Edwin Smith
D. Moyer Staley
Samuel Whiting Staley
Town
Mr. Staley
New York
William Whiting
Frank Lyons
Whiting
Edwin Blodgett
East
Illerica
Gardner Spaulding
Mary Clemens
Connecticut
F. Albert Morey
Reed
Somerville
C. Frederic Morey
Salem
Morey
Joel Baldwin
Tewksbury
Joseph Jaquith
Frances A. Lawrence
Woburn
N. D. P. Foster
Cordelia
Henry Hill
South Aulerca
Malden
Philip
Maxwell Savage
M. J. Savage
Boston
Thomas Shedd
Thomas
Jacob Shedd
Martha
Nahum Baldwin
Maria
Sexton
Mr. Shedd
Shedd
House of Good
Silent Sunday Snowstorm Reforms Billerica Landscape
A Thanksgiving snow storm battered Billerica with a violent weekend rise, halting bells and clocks. Monday revealed drifted streets while neighbors Dolan and others struggled with sleighs and horse teams as wind sculpted uncanny ice and snow figures. Women abandoned sleighs and walked home through the white turmoil.
Thanksgiving reminiscences and local memories in Billerica
Thanksgiving reflections describe visits and hospitality across families in town, with reunions in Somerville and changes in households. A memorial sketch honors Thomas Shedd of Tewksbury, detailing his roles as sexton, craftsman, and storyteller, followed by a note on Soldiers Memorial Day services and a local drugstore notice for Chamberlain remedies.
Carter's cough balsam heals a long cough
A surprised man suffered six weeks of coughing that kept him awake at night. He tried two 25 cent bottles of Carter's cough balsam and was cured completely. Carter & Sherburne, low priced druggists, Merrimack, corner Bridge Street, produced the remedy.
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Carter
Carter & Sherburne
Merrimack
Corner Bridge Street
Doans Kidney Pills Help Backaches, Says Lowell Reader
A Lowell resident testifies that backache and urinary symptoms eased after using Doan’s Kidney Pills. The testimonial from Mrs. Mary Traynor, of 28 Pearl Street, describes relief from heavy work strain, dizziness, headache, and cloudy urine after several doses, with continued use curing stiffness and restoring energy.
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Dean
Lowell
Mary Traynor
Pearl Street
Ellingwood & Co
Merrimack
Central Streets
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Middlesex
Bob White
Robert White
George Cooper
New Brunswick
Massachusetts
Editorial
Col. Waring
Ogden
American Agriculturist
American Jersey Cattle Club
Wilson
W. A. Henry
Wisconsin Experiment Station
New Hampshire
ORTS
Japan
Rowen
Bro. Taylor
John Fisk
Lowell Journal
Bro. Tolles
Mass
Nubbins
P. H. Jacobs
Globe-Democrat
Scary Horse
Chamberlain
Central
Middlesex County
West Acton
Whiuter
Dolan
Unitarian Church
M. O. Simons
Hardin Norris
R. Shoemaker
Perry, Ill
Croup
Chamberain
Gerong Kickers
New England College
Hoston, Mass
Tremont Street
Schoool
Board of Trade
Central St
Kunzer
N. E. College of Languages
Board of Trade Rooms
F. L. Diman
Old City Hall
Merrimack Street
Pub Res
New England Business University
Runnels
Merrimack Square
Low Ll
W. J. Sanders
Prin
Ruth A. Siherburne
Carl Baermann
Pisianoforte Old City Hall
J.T. Rhodes & Sons
Arthur Rhodes
Meriimack Street
Courier-Citizen Building
ASS A
Tomieght
Anna Held
Chas. A. Bigelow
Flee
Ava
Robert B. Mantel
NEW Music Hall
Boody, Minager
Josep Cl
Tonig Gonbemred
Siseria
Venning
Humbug
Savoy Theatre
Windham
Burton W. Leavitt
YALE
Young People’s Society of Race Universalist
Brillant
George A Gardner
C. F. Fair
Odd Fellows
Temple Middles
Caleb L. Siuth
Middlesex Street
America
Washburn, Crosby & Co
Patisian
Lawrence St
Worthley
All Hardware
Sigins Wiese Spas
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