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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1902
Page
10
The department invites farmers of Northern Middlesex to share brief, informative notes for an agricultural discussion page. Readers with only a few lines to say should submit, and the agricultural editor will edit for the column. Long-winded pieces are discouraged.
John Thomas Dobbins stands out for his unorthodox methods yet proves helpful when neighbor farmer Cloddy faced a near loss after a barn fire. He buys mortgage to aid widow Brown and rejects formal charity, preferring practical action over social events. In a New England Homestead note, his stance on community aid is praised by L. Lawrence.
Bulletin No 155 by entomologist L O Howard warns malaria and typhoid fever spread via insects. It explains Anopheles mosquitoes cause malaria, house flies spread typhoid, and suggests prevention like kerosene films on water. Also notes yellow fever vectors and a May rainfall impacts hay with a call to store hay in silos.
J H Hale scores in fruit growth by trimming peach tops for new leaders and crops. Thomas W Lawson of Boston paid 7500 dollars for a Jersey bull. Chicago markets saw cattle fetch the highest prices in 25 years last week. A new late keeping celery named Winter Queen is praised for its quality.
Letter describes a crow raiding a robin nest near an orchard window. The writer recalls using a musket unsuccessfully to deter the bird, and notes the nest built in a spruce with eggs laid and hatchlings cared for by robins. Weather and feeding by parents are described as they guarded and taught fledglings.
A column extols the summer boarder as a top crop for New England farms. It urges neat, thrifty premises, self grown produce, and avoidance of city imports. Also advocates wheel hoe and garden drill as essential tools for efficient weeding and cultivation in small to mid sized plots.
A New England farmer reports a woman using 20 cents of gas to bake beans and notes the metered fuel and cost awareness. An English breed, the Lakenvelder, known as Jerusalem or everlasting layer, is described as white with black hackles and tails, noted for rapid growth, hardiness, and a potential breeding club formation.
The note discusses pruning for fruit trees with bearing on last year's wood. Apples and pears bear on prior growth, so heading shoots must be careful to avoid reducing fruiting. In these trees, bearing shoots are not the most vigorous ends but are often on the branch sides as smaller growth called spurs.
Guidance on green forage crops for cattle in the eastern United States outlines rye for early feeding, clover after rye, and sequential use of Canada field peas oats and sorghum. It emphasizes corn silage for year round succulent feed, hay preservation for returning fertility, and leguminous green manuring with soybeans cowpeas field peas and clovers, noting soil moisture and drought considerations and nitrogen fixation by legumes.
Professor Roberts explains cover crops can partly replace fertilizers by providing humus and improving soil structure while not universally substituting chemical fertilizers. He notes varying costs and benefits, with clover fixing atmospheric nitrogen and supplying soil-available nitrogen, but not phosphorus or potash. wheat and straw remove some nutrients.
Loyal Asa Pollard lodge, a new Odd Fellows chapter, was instituted in Talbot Memorial hall last night with Wamesit degree staff of Lowell leading. Visiting grand lodge officers presented the charter, and officers were installed including Roger Barrington as noble grand and Henry T. Brown as permanent secretary. Banquet followed, with Mrs J Williams and others in charge of supper. Approx 150 attendees from Lowell and surrounding towns, trustees named, and Asa Pollard's legacy noted from Bunker Hill era.
Reverend R A Greene of Lowell will preach at the town hall next Sunday June 22 at 2 30 p m. A concert exercise by the children follows the service.
In Dracut the Y. P. S. C. EB. of Hillside Congregational Church held a vestry gathering featuring Clara Carson and Alice Gallagher piano solos and Marion McKnight recitation. Rev. J. A. McKnight led the event with games enjoyed by all.
Frederick K. Ripley marked his 56th birthday with a Wednesday gathering at his North Chelmsford home attended by about twenty friends. The high school will close for summer vacation this afternoon, with other rooms already closed two weeks ago. James E. McCabe departs Monday for Sanbornville New Hampshire to take a job with an ice company.
In South Framingham on Wednesday at six, an open car failed to brake and crashed into a vestibule car near Dennison Manufacturing, injuring motor man James W. Slattery of Hopkinton with facial cuts. No passengers were aboard either car.
The Baptist society's Ladies' circle met at Mrs A A Nye’s home and chose officers for the year: President Sarah Watts, Vice President Alice Kimball, Treasurer Mabel Parker, Secretary Lucy Hodge. Light refreshments followed. Children's Sunday will be observed on the common next Sunday evening. High school graduation exercises are scheduled Friday at 1 30 PM.
Largely attended adjourned meeting held in the vestry on Thursday evening with Albert H. Davis presiding as moderator. The group announced the goal to supply the desk for another year before the pastor's term ends by limitation, and John S. Hall moved unanimously to re-engage Rev. A. D. K. Shurtleff as pastor. The body also authorized the executive committee to confer with the pastor on arranging a public installation and to handle necessary preparations. The vote deferred remaining matters to the committee.
Meeting adjourned subject to the standing committee call after discussing several matters. The choice of delegates to conventions referred to the standing committee. Centre high school's graduating exercises were rescheduled from the 26th to the 25th.
Sunday welcomes a daughter to Mr and Mrs J B Phillips. Lyman A Byam stays at Hart Pond summer cottage. Mabel I Gilmore of Providence R I visits Mr Arthur Scoboria and family. Nancy Metcalf visits Haverhill. Farther Lights meets with secretary Miss Margaret Sloan. Sale and lawn party planned for Tuesday July 1. Moses Taylor of Acton visits H H Emerson family. Mail remains for Hiram Dawson and Mrs Bernard Burns. Josephine Rand Everett lectures on Character Building the Highest Education.
Bedford society items cover a Catholic church wedding, Miss Margaret Kavanagh wedding to James Neville of Somerville, a daily life of the town with trolley trips, school closings, and notes on residents. In Groton, Mrs. Gleason’s death and Groton school graduation with Roosevelt family presence and prize winners are recorded.
Groton scenes include Mary Folkins recovering from pneumonia after an appendectomy plus a second operation. Willie's pneumonia recovery advances. The Daniel C. Lowell place sold at auction for 1100 to William A. Woods of Washington DC. Mrs. Cornelia Schermerhorn revisits Groton as the late Joseph Fitch’s eldest daughter. E. S. Clark W. R. C. held a patriotic meeting with fine choir performances and readings. A Historical Society session featured Capt. M. P. Palmer recounting Bull Run experiences and a strawberry festival followed. Three living ex governors noted and a quip on ex-governor Boutwell’s anti-war stance. Mrs. Eveline A. Gleason dies in Concord at 47.
The Richardson school lists students on the roll of honor for the year ending June 13 1902. Names include William Burris Earl W Costello Sadie M Hopkinson Emma B Kitchen Mason Alexander Mary Daly Daniel Burris Thomas P O Hare and others. Sadie M Hopkinson is noted for two consecutive years of perfect attendance and two students have attended every day for a year. The report also covers Floral Emblem society events church activities and local community notices.
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