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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1898
Page
6
This department invites concise farmer letters from Worthern MidCiesex readers sharing opinions, experiences, and practical notes. It includes poems, remarks on nut trees, ashes on potatoes, and timely crop observations from S. Darrington, S. L. Taylor, and T. with advice on shade trees, harvest timelines, and early planting outcomes.
The article notes the country’s cattle count roughly matches 1886 levels, about 8 million below 1892 highs, keeping beef and hides costly. It mentions Bre'r Whitaker's Boston milk business expansion and a proposal to replace 8% quart cans with tidy milk receptacles. Maine feed inspection law cited as stopping adulterated cottonseed meal sales, with Mass fertilizer act praised as fair and unlikely to be repealed.
An agricultural note highlights lime use on clay soils and Bordeaux mixture for pest control. It urges regular spraying of fruit trees, notes two new strawberry pests, and discusses egg production when nests are disturbed. It also mentions steam forcing in Missouri oil trials and promotes certified milk with inspector oversight.
In a village near Lower a single public horse well with a sidewalk pump causes pedestrians to improvise a drink stand for horses. A writer proposes piping water from the well to a trough near the hill and running the pipe outside the sidewalk to reduce mud and sidewalk wetness, urging town officials to act.
A Rural World item explains intensive farming yields profit from focused crops. It covers fertilizing strawberries along rows, spring application timing, and thinning crowded beds to four inches apart for better fruit size. It notes milk production profitability and farm management lessons from market advice.
Experiments by stations and a government bulletin urge fruit growers to thin fruit to regulate crop load. They argue thinning reduces losses and improves tree health and returns. The guidance emphasizes practical advantages and aims to standardize thinning practices.
The Philadelphia Record reports on thinning fruit on apples and plums showing higher yields and better quality. Thinned Gravenstein trees produced far more first quality fruit and greater market value than unthinned trees. Currants also benefited from tip pruning, increasing berry weight and cluster size. Thinning reduced disease and raised net gains per tree.
Ontario experiment station compiles winter rations for many prominent dairy farms. Ration No 1 for 22 cows yields 6200 lb butter yearly with bran oil meal ensilage timothy oats vetch hay. No 2 for 11 Ayrshires yields 65734 lb milk and 700 lb butter with bran peas oats oil meal timothy clover hay roots. No 3 for 24 cows Ayrshires yields 7000 lb milk with bran peas ensilage timothy hay. No 4 for 25 grade Jerseys Holsteins yields 800 75 worth cream sold. No 387 Guernsey cows average 1000 lb yield unknown with bran shorts corn meal clover hay roots. No 39 for 16 Shorthorns yields 54 per head with peas bran oil meal ensilage hay stray. Most herds showed thoroughbred dairy blood.
In butter making overrun is the extra quantity obtained beyond the fat recovered from milk. With butter at eighty four percent fat, fat recovered yields about 119 pounds of butter per 100 pounds of fat, minus losses in skimming and churning. Actual overrun varies with skimming accuracy and impurities in the butter.
Pennsylvania correspondence outlines benefits of a three year rotation. Live roots continually keep fertility, requiring only one ploughing for three crops. More humus builds soil, yields improve with farming, subsoil seed bed forms for fall grain, fertilizer costs drop, atmospheric and subsoil plant food used, clover roots loosen and drain subsoil, and summer fallow avoids typical downsides.
Mr P Ketcham of Pike City California says Cham berlain s Pain Balm gave relief during his brother s late sickness from sciatic rheumatism. Many others testify to its prompt relief. For sale by Ellingwood Co at Merrimack Central and Middlesex and Central streets.
A fragment mentions Castorica and the distinctive signature ZL linked to a product line, noting an odd reference to Leki. The text is sparse and does not provide clear event or context details suitable for a fuller summary.
Our Boston Letter notes the favorable season for visitors to the Hub, highlights the Beacon Hill monument reconstruction near completion, and recalls Bulfinch’s design with bronze eagle. It covers the city’s cosmopolitan shift, the Elevated Railway rule on open cars, a near drowning incident, and tributes to local figures and upcoming summer entertainments.
A narrator attends a church bazaar with friends, spends lavishly on raffles and trinkets, and is fooled by a feminine seller. He finally discovers the vendor is Mrs Needall, wife of a stall holder, ending with his failed proposal, loss of his watch, and estrangement from his uncle over the deceit and a church endowment bazaar.
Advertisement promotes Carter's Cough Balsam with claimed effectiveness and a slogan about wisdom in avoiding coughs. It lists prices at twenty five and fifty cents and notes the product from Carter & Sherburne, a low priced drug store at Merrimack and Bridge streets, urging readers to tell advertisers they saw it in the Courier.
Advertises Hood's Pills as a remedy for liver fits biliousness indigestion and headaches. Claims ease of use with simple operation and emphasizes effectiveness.
The neutrality proclamation of the war between the United States and Spain was read from the Royal Exchange steps by Lieutenant Colonel KE. B. Burnaby, the common crier, in full official dress. Dense crowds gathered as the procession moved from Mansion House, showing London’s keen interest in the war.
In accordance with the Public Statutes section 47 chapter 317 Acts of 1894 depositors are respectfully requested to present their books for verification between July 1 and August 15 inclusive.
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