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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1902
Page
10
A concise call to farmers to share brief, pithy notes for an agricultural column. Readers are invited to submit short lines or experiences, which the agricultural editor will edit for publication. Long essays are discouraged to keep the exchange brisk.
Esther H. Trowbridge writes in the Christian Messenger about a vine by a doorway and a brook in a cottage garden. The poem contrasts nature’s daily service to God with human forgetfulness, urging a life that blends work with praise and joyful cadence.
Editorial notes rising rap id insect eating birds thanks to statute while fruit losses from currants raspberries and other small fruits mount. It questions if pest control value outweighs crop loss and suggests scarecrows as remedy. Mentions Colorado potato beetle and vigilant inspections with Bug Death. Kendrick of Wakefield balances concerns over brown tail moth and pine worm.
The world’s annual wheat crop is about 2500 million bushels. The note asks if there are signs of the San Jose scale. It mentions J. H. Hale’s Georgia peach orchard with 350,000 trees as the state’s largest. The reason for dropping Prof. 8 T. Maynard has not yet appeared.
The article discusses using carbon bisulphide after rain to kill red and black ants, warning of its flammability and explosive risk. It notes cost and practicality limits, with W. W. Skinner of the Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station as a source. It also begins Wonders of a Beehive, praising bee intelligence and detailing mathematical questions about wax cell construction and the least-material hexagonal cell design.
Maeterlinck notes Koenig and Maraldi measured rhomb angles in honeycomb with limited precision. A Farm, Stock and Home correspondent asks about winter forage for dairy cows, with Haecker advising fodder corn yields seven tons per acre and sufficient roughage for 35 cows. Milk purity and bacteria levels are discussed, plus a mirror trick to deter birds and clover curing instructions from Ploughman.
The article describes late season forage options in central Illinois including sweet corn and field corn for dairy cows and young stock, sweet sorghum, kafir corn, rape as a pasture or boil crop, winter rye for grazing, and millets as catch crops. It covers seeding rates, broadcasting versus drilling, moisture considerations, and management to prevent jointing.
The dialogue records a political boss informing that the punishment for the boss's son is to serve sixteen years. The incident emphasizes a harsh penalty tied to a high ranking figure. The source reflects stigma and power dynamics in political circles.
The note from American Agriculturist remarks that the crop quality varies and it may be harvested as hay, reflecting practical farming conditions. It emphasizes the roughness of yield and the adaptability of crops for livestock feed in varying seasons.
D E Atwood of Chelmsford on High street, part of the old Parkhurst farm, uses every foot of soil for paying crops. Leading crops include one acre each of raspberries and blackberries, with Cuthbert raspberries and Snyder blackberries favored. He employs up to 40 pickers in season, yields about 10,000 baskets of raspberries per favorable year, and winterizes the raspberry canes by earth covering. Besides fruit, 1000 currant bushes, 500 gooseberry bushes, a strawberry bed, and various fruit trees plus grape vines complete the diversified, intensely managed enterprise.
A Lancet summary on fresh pineapple juice containing bromelin a powerful digestive enzyme that digests proteids including fibrin and meat albumen. The enzyme works in acid neutral or alkaline media and may aid digestion in stomach and intestines though cooking destroys activity. Pineapple juice yields about two pints of juice per fruit and salt can precipitate the enzyme.
The article explains the matted row system in strawberry culture and warns against letting plants crowd the row. Early plants produce the big berries while late plants create nuisance berries. Growers often allow rows to mat too closely, hindering plant performance. After early August, plants may set enough new runners to fill twenty inches if trained lengthwise.
Instructions from Rural New Yorker describe spacing plants six inches apart, preventing new roots in middle spaces, and using a fork hoe to pull weeds and guide runners into the spaces between rows. It advises cutting runners if needed and keeping bearing spaces clear, with autumn ploughing to widen middles to about twenty inches or two feet before winter mulching.
A Farmingdale New York pickle industry history shows blight nearly wiped out crops until Bordeaux mixture spraying became standard. Three workers per field spray via wagon, covering nine rows per passes. spraying is preventive, not curative, with top-surface application only. An unsprayed row often dies, while sprayed sections yield full crops. Costs run about 6 per acre, more on low ground.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts probate notice for heirs and interested parties in Joseph A. Gagnon of Lowell estate. Elise Gagnon seeks letters testamentary without bond. citation set for July 22, 1902 at Cambridge Probate Court. Public notice required weekly for three weeks in Lowell Daily Courier and written mailings to known heirs seven days prior.
An advertisement describes a single successful method to remove facial blemishes offered at Room 7 in the Odd Fellow Block. The notice emphasizes effectiveness and invites inquiries about the blemish treatment.
A brief citizen notice indicates confidence in a local courier service with a cautious test run. The ad hints at reliability and encourages residents to try the courier, suggesting trust in the new or unfamiliar provider.
The book by Charles Francis Adams surveys the 1871 Treaty of Washington as a major diplomatic achievement and places two lectures on Appomattox and Lee at the center. Adams argues for gratitude to Robert E. Lee and contrasts Civil War memory with South Africa's crisis, with further essays on military history and British diplomacy. The volume, priced $1.50, is issued by Houghton Mifflin.
The July issue highlights include Paul Leicester Ford as Bibliographer and Historian followed by The Bases of the Drama by Marguerite Merington. Other pieces cover The House of the Green Shudders by Loomis, The Confessions of a Husband by Dasham, Dumas by Chesterton, Watkins and fiction reviews by Carruth, Williams, Littlefield, and Douglas, plus Nine Books of Some Importance and Fuel of Fire continued.
Wilshire's Magazine for July previews varied reading on current events. Richard Le Gallienne explores The American Invasion while Charles Ferguson debates Religion and Politics. Walter Wellman covers the anthracite coal strike and editorials question the Trust's influence on issues.
The piece discusses interference by the trust in national politics and includes an article on The Significance of the Trust. It covers the author’s recent campaign in West Elgin where he stood as the Socialist candidate for the Canadian Parliament.
The July Catholic World presents twelve articles led by Albert Reynaud’s poem A Threnody of Life and Rev Charles Warren Currier on The Carib Race in the West Indies. Other pieces discuss The School Question in the Philippines, Bois De Boulogne, ethics of journalism, fever, church architecture and parochial schools, a St. Albans visit, and tainted teaching in public schools, by noted authors including B De Saint-Pol-Lias, Charles B Connolly, Longfield Gorman, Rev Hugh Pope, and Rev James J Fox.
The Guidon’s July issue highlights a Catholic Summer School at Cliff Haven and several features on religious history. Notable items include Apostle Paul letters, Rev. Lucius H. Thayer, and a piece on Bruges procession details.
The July Outing features Miss Lillian C. Moer on dog breeding and showing. It also surveys camping lore by Edwyn Sandys, swimming basics by a beginner, and Arthur F. Duffey detailing a new hundred yard world record.
The July issue opens with Whale Oil and Spermaceti by Mary E Starbuck a detailed look at Nantucket. It also surveys Methuen history through The King's Highway by Charles W Mann and offers Alice Morse Earle s Dancing Flowers and Flower Dances a Saybrook portrait by Clifton Johnson and Boston Schools One Hundred Years Ago by George H Martin.
HHC Charles Scribner's Sons and Houghton Mifflin announce a ten volume Beacon Edition of F Hopkinson Smith works to be sold by subscription. Mrs Burnett has recovered and may reside in New York for two to three years resuming work on a new play and Bettina design. Her novelettes The Making of a Marchioness and The Methods of Lady Walderhurst will appear in a uniform set for Christmas.
A list of recent books with authors, illustrators, publishers, and prices. Entries include Home Thoughts second series by CC Mrs James Farley Cox. Five Little Peppers Abroad by Margaret Sidney. Unto the End by Mrs G R Alden. Tween You and I by Max O Rell. In the Eagle's Talon by Sheppard Stevens. A Maid of Bar Harbor by Henrietta G Rowe. Lafitte of Louisiana by Mary Devereux. American Food and Game Fishes by David Starr Jordan and Barton W Evermann. Miser Hoadley's Secret by Arthur W Marchmont. Belshazzar by William Stearns Davis. Character Building by Booker T. Washington. Told by the Death's Head by Maurus Jokai. The Diary of a Goose Girl by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Mrs Tree by Laura E Richards. publishers include Doubleday Page Co, Little, Brown & Co, Lothrop, Houghton Mifflin, Saalfield, Dana Estes & Co, and more.
In Lowell the 1902 vacation schools at Mann Edson Lakeview bustle with children from 150 to 300 daily. The city funds remain at 1500 while demand suggests 5000 for wider spread. Parents and officials urge informed visits, note strong attendance and demand toys and playthings, and emphasize distinction between essential supplies and discretionary items. A. K. Whitcomb reports from Lowell July 10 1902.
Engraved calling cards wedding invitations and announcements and at home cards offered by Courier Citizen Co Merrimack Street. High grade work on best stock with reasonable prices. Call to see samples.
Dr K Kishi concludes the so called waltzing mice from China and Japan dance not due to inner ear disease but to centuries of confinement in small cages. The organs are healthy and the behavior is an environmental effect rather than a medical condition.
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