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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1902
Page
8
The department invites readers to share brief, pithy agricultural notes for publication. Agricultural editor will edit submissions for this Farmers section emphasizing concise opinions, experiences, and tips of interest to northern Middlesex readers.
The Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph reports a humorous yet pointed notice on rising egg costs. Hens once daily yielding shells now withhold eggs, leaving kitchens and restaurants in distress. The piece jokes about offering more feed, cheaper eggs, and even groveling to the hens to end the strike.
A Carlisle subscriber touts White Wyandotte egg production in wet 1901 weather, while a Westford writer credits neglect as a cause of failure. The Legislature empowers town officials to enter private land to destroy brown tail and gypsy moth nests. Middlesex Worcester Pomona Orange meets to discuss taxation, cucumbers, and spraying. In provinces apple growers favor the bushel box over barrels to improve packing results.
Spring lamb is selling at 1 a pound known as hot house lamb and available to buyers who can afford Black Hamburg grapes winter grapes winter cucumbers and other greenhouse luxuries. The cheap silo is expensive in the end.
A correspondent writes about March farming plans from corn to early peas, noting successful harrowed and harrowless yields, wood cutting partnerships with his son, and lessons from poultry yields. He urges early pea plantings and reflects on neglect causing frozen eggs in poultry records as a cautionary tale about overextending farming efforts.
An editorial letter discusses strengths and limits of farmers and emphasizes measuring individual ability by tangible outputs. It cites Edward F. Parker’s hen laying capacity as a model of careful work and argues that farm success is shaped by personality and psychology as much as soil. The note invites readers to the Pawtucketville farmers institute debate next Wednesday.
Fruit growers are advised not to rely on a single remedy for San Jose scale. The lime sulfur and salt wash, tested on the Pacific coast, shows satisfactory results in eastern orchards when applied at the right time. Proceed cautiously with untested remedies, test small areas first, and compare outcomes with other sprays.
A brief preface explains the simple, vivid tale of Hester Blair by William Henry Carson. Slack Dorkins is a standout character, a loyal yet untidy Yankee whose quiet courage and devotion shape the village romance. The plot follows Hester and two suitors from a New England fishing village to New York, ending on a hopeful note with a hidden marriage and enduring affection.
Four years after Wolfville, Alfred Henry Lewis returns with Wolfville Days a collection of nineteen western tales told by the Old Cattleman. A reading from The Great Wolfville Strike depicts miners printers and payroll tensions with gritty frontier humor and sharp dialogue.
Eggs meant for hatching and long-distance travel should be packed in cartons with the small end down and labeled to prevent pressure from railroad movement. After shipping, keep eggs in the designated position if possible, allow a 24 hour rest with the air cell on top, and avoid placing in cold earthenware dishes in winter to prevent chilling the germ.
Several Boston area cities struggle with brown tail and gypsy moths as state abandonment halts control work. Trained state experts, formerly on the job, are now in demand to resume efforts amid a serious regional loss.
A vivid recounting of Marella Sembrich rising from poverty to fame as the queen of song. It recalls her childhood line for Patti tickets, the hardships endured, and how Sembrich became a renowned soprano earning substantial concert fees.
The March issue of The Critic presents a long sketch on Henrik Ibsen by Christian Brinton, complemented by numerous drawings and caricatures from recent years. It also features a piece on The Great Reviews of the World by Wolf von Schierbrand with cover designs and notes on related journals.
In the March Masters in Art, Louis Gerhardt lauds a Windsor Castle collection of eighty Holbein drawings. The studies, chiefly black Italian crayon on dull red paper, rival his finished works and surpass many of Raphael or Leonardo, with ten plates listed by subject such as William FitzGerald Earl of Southampton and Sir John Gage.
The issue surveys church and temperance topics by Rev. Joseph M Gleason Rev Lorenzo Mark oe and Rev F A Cunningham. It also covers Homes of Slieve-in-League and The Unity and Holiness of the Church along with Catholic in Fiction critiques. Short stories and poetry by D A McCarthy Henry Coyle Mary Grant O'Sheridan and Edward J McLoughlin praised.
The March Guidon profusely illustrated offers several articles and features including A Journey Through Flanders A Peace the World Cannot Give Jessie Reader Sins of the Tongue Lenten Pastoral Rt Rev Bishop Bradley Father Murtagh's Glove Joseph Gordan Daily The Angel's Message to Mary The Story of Jesus Christ Ambrose Adams The Worship of the Crucifix.
Messrs T Y Crowell Co will publish in the present month Lepidus the Centurion by Edwin Lester Arnold The Hands of God in American History by Robert Ellis Thompson Irrigation by Frederick Haynes Newell Verba Crucis by Rev T Calvin McClelland and Story of Pernaquid second volume in Pioneer Totons of America series Also translations and posthumous works by Ellen Marriage Lucy Cleavy er McElroy and Jas Otis
Goldwin Smith writes in Atlantic about England’s role in the U S Civil War. He highlights British sympathy for the North and profiles leaders Cobden Bright Mill and Hughes while weighing government stance. A book titled The Diary of a Goose Girl by Kate Douglas Wiggin is announced for early publication.
A Springfield Republican item reviews outdoor books and a humorous flock portrayal by Mrs. Wiggin, alongside Sienkiewicz surveys and a sharp critique of Zola. It notes a Carnegie library Pittsburgh list of 100 biographical works, with 24 published by Houghton Mifflin.
Houghton Mifflin releases To the End of the Trail by Frank L. Nason a mining engineer noting Western life themes. Bowen Merrill announces Richard Burton essays Forces in Fiction a study of elements and treatment in modern literature novels drama and romance.
Stephen Bonsal profiles General Miguel Malvar, a elusive guerrilla leader in Batangas, detailing his plain upbringing, sparse encampments, and the mix of rumors and evidence about his travels. Bonsal notes Dona Placida and Malvar’s habit of moving among towns in ordinary dress, and the difficulty of locating him despite large rewards.
Washington dispatch notes Massachusetts representatives Knox Moody and Roberts active in pursuing statehood for New Mexico Arizona and Oklahoma. Knox eyes a Woburn public building while Moody scores river and harbor funding for Merrimack Newburyport Sandy Bay and Gloucester amid political chatter of court appointments and duties.
Congressman Roberts leads on the naval appropriation bill, securing support for the Boston navy yard and overseeing committee work on document disposition. He pushes to repeal the 15 percent free hides duty, backed by Moody, with Lynn and Haverhill industries poised to gain, while Ways and Means hesitates on tariff shifts.
A dining car assistant cook Pat fell from a moving Great Western train while ice cream was being made. The chef cried in panic and the conductor stopped the train two miles past the scene. Pat reappeared skirting the tracks with the ice cream freezer on his back and quipped that it jarred him.
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