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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1902
Page
10
The department invites Northern Middlesex farmers to share brief, pithy lines on agricultural topics. Readers with few lines to say should write in. the agricultural editor will edit for this column. Long-winded discourse is discouraged.
Poem excerpt reflecting on seasonal change from summer joys to winter austerity. The speaker notes snow, leafless hedges, vanished dreams, and a shift from life and growth to absence, ending with a hopeful hint that life returns in spring through unexpected morrow.
Hatch Experiment Station Amherst Mass releases Bulletin 78 with illustrated manufacture of feed-stuffs and analysis of 700 Massachusetts samples. Highlights include distillers dry grains, red albumen, and economical concentrates. Farmers urged to reduce purchased grain. revival in peach trade noted. egg prices prompt questions about poultry profitability.
In Graniteville CG Bias argues for practical farming methods noting that 2300 bills per acre can yield as many pounds as 9900 with fewer small potatoes. He describes June plowing, Hungarian grass, staged fall and spring tillage, checks for planting, weed control, and manure use, plus trials contrasting large vs many small outputs and wheat sowing strategies.
A Concord Massachusetts reader dismisses a Tribune Farmer crib column that urged drawing out manure in winter. The writer questions where the manure would be stored and its value if spread before the last storm, noting it may suit western wheat fields but not New England.
The article lists measurements for a near perfect horse based on six horses including two stallions, two hunters, and two chargers. It covers height, lengths, limb measurements, and proportions, noting these apply to general utility horses but not draughts.
Agricultural notes discuss cover crop management to conserve soil moisture and avoid water loss, plus Clover Hay as a cheap hen ration. Other tips cover choosing axe-handles, rye as a money crop, and subduing ground ivy with salt applications. Specifics include cow peas moisture use, mulch effect, clover hay ratios, and practical axe-handle guidance.
The Courier Citizen advertise section remains reliable for readers seeking goods, services, and notices. Advertisers praise its reach and quick responses, noting steady inquiries and solid returns from daily postings.
A gardener notes that salt dissolved in water can kill ground ivy in a lawn when sprayed with a common sprinkling waterpot. He recommends diluting the solution with one-third more cold water, which still proves effective. If salt fails, he suggests ploughing the ivy up.
The piece lauds farmers institutes for promoting education and progress among farmers while urging men to dress with care at sessions. It condemns barnyard attire as a snub to the farming vocation, praising well dressed, confident farmers as true gentlemen and representatives of a skilled, educated agrarian class.
The article notes rapid expansion of agricultural institutes led by practical, experienced speakers. It highlights thousands of participants, active discussion among both genders, and a demand for demonstrators over theory. Home talent papers showcase local intelligence ready for action in agriculture.
Illinois congressman T J Selby defends the Great Oleomargarine bill. He extols the Mississippi Valley cow and Democratic milk, denounces oleo as a counterfeit, urges protecting honest labor and the honest cow, and predicts abundance of butter and milk for all.
Indian sources describe early corn breeding to adapt a warm climate crop to northern short seasons. Observations linked plant growth to moon cycles. each ear emerges from a joint, guiding selection for ripening before frosts. The account highlights ancient methods shaping varieties suited to northern climates.
The Indians selected seed from the smallest ears to shift growth to earlier joints, creating varieties whose ears mature seven days earlier. They bred corn to yield longer ears with more kernels, noting eight to nine inch ears with eight or more rows in the North and up to 700 kernels in Southern regions, per Prof. C. G. Hopkins of the Illinois Experiment Station.
A. M. Purdy of Palmyra New York outlines two soil and planting plans to grow strawberries more efficiently. The first inserts one strong plant at each cross and builds matted hills by mid June, interplanting beans or fodder crops to preserve soil while enabling a robust next season crop. The second uses raspberries as a frame, planting a row of strawberries between them to create matted rows with the goal of larger fruit and better yields.
Arthur Goodrich profiles Solon Borglum, the sculptor, detailing his Loop River ranch childhood. He builds a shack, leads a rough crew, and bonds with horses and men amid blizzards, stampedes, and prairie life shaping his art and character.
The guide details preparing frozen fruits such as strawberries raspberries cherries peaches pineapples and apricots with water sugar and whipped cream. It extols rich cream based ice cream recipes with eggs and options to add coffee or vanilla chocolate flavors, plus a gelatine sherbet method and a pineapple sherbet variation.
Freshly killed pigeons should be drawn and cleaned without excessive washing. Trim off heads and necks, truss wings, cut toes, then stuff and arrange in a dripping pan. Salt pepper and flour, dot with butter, add water, bake briskly. Roast time for young birds is about thirty to forty five minutes.
Boil water, whisk eggs with milk and lemon juice dissolve curd then drain. Beat curd with eggs cream nutmeg and currants. Bake in puff pastry lined pattypans for cheesecakes.
Break fine and melt half a pound of rich cheese in a frying pan. When soft, add one cupful of sweet cream and a pinch of cayenne. Blend thoroughly then break in five eggs, cover two minutes until whites set, remove cover, add salt and beat briskly. It rises into a yellow foam and serves on heated buttered milk crackers.
Pare, quarter and core ten apples and steam with three-fourths cup dried currants and half a cup seeded raisins. Mix with two cups stale bread crumbs, cinnamon, and an egg to bind. Stuff the goose and garnish with broiled sausages, served with apple jelly or gooseberry sauce.
Prepare the breast of lamb with skin intact and forcemeat of suet herbs parsley mint nutmeg lemon rind and eggs. Roll and brown, then simmer in butter onions flour water with bones mace for 90 minutes. Serve centre platter with peas and gravy. remainder in a tureen.
Combine veal salt pork cracker crumbs salt pepper cream or milk eggs lemon juice. Form balls saute in fat with onion until golden. Stir in butter flour curry salt, simmer with milk or stock, then strain over balls and simmer forty five minutes. Serve with boiled rice.
A vintage recipe instructs whisking five egg whites to stiff froth, cooking them in lemon-scented milk, then heating yolks with milk to thicken. The dish is finished by pouring the cream over the eggs and letting the mixture set, served cold as a pretty addition to a meal.
Dissolve a yeast cake in tepid water then add to a bowl of milk and boiling water. Let lukewarm, stir in salt and whole wheat flour to form a thick batter. Beat until soft and liquid, then mix in flour to dough. Knead briefly, let rise three hours, shape, rise again and bake thirty to forty five minutes.
Mash boiled potatoes with hot milk butter pepper salt and three beaten eggs. Whisk over heat, butter a mould with crumbs, fill it, bake in a water bath for thirty minutes, unmold center, then arrange chops or birds around.
Boil and drain spinach finely chop and add to a stewpan with butter to moisten. Stir gently until butter dries then add cream powdered sugar nutmeg and salt. Simmer five minutes and serve on hot dish with toasted bread or puff paste.
A vintage New York gingerbread method uses two and a half tablespoons of yellow ginger with one and a half cups of flour sifted twice. Cream with a scant cup of butter. Beat five egg yolks until thick and fold in gradually with one and a half cups of powdered sugar. Add beaten egg whites and fold in one level teaspoon baking powder. Bake in a deep pan for one hour.
Directions describe cleaning six pigeons and soaking with vinegar and onions overnight then browning six pork slices with two onions, simmering with pigeons in one pint hot water, seasoning, and serving atop parsley with a strained thickened gravy.
A boiled pudding method states scald one quart of milk and pour over one pint of cornmeal, then fold in five tablespoonfuls of molasses and two tablespoonfuls of suet finely chopped. Mix well, place in a bag, boil four hours, and serve hot with maple syrup and butter.
Chop mint leaves and tips finely then pour boiling water over. Stir in sugar and cover to steep in a cool place for thirty minutes. Add lemon juice cayenne and salt to taste for a bright mint flavored drink.
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