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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1900
Page
7
The department invites farmers to share brief, sharp paragraphs on agricultural topics. Readers with short lines to buy are encouraged to write in, and the agricultural editor will edit for this column. Long-winded pieces are discouraged.
A poem-like vignette describes a fiddler in a rural social setting. The crowd dances to a lively treble of fiddle music as Mary Martin in blue calico attracts attention. Laughter, flirtation, and rustic calls shape a breezy countryside dance night concluding with a good night to Money Music.
Editorial critiques rural delivery costs, praises farming as a profession, and discusses by products in dairying. It urges skilled farming, warns unlettered farmers risk failure, and stresses value of restoring manure practices and proper timber thinning for future profitability.
Massachusetts Horticultural Society prizes for best winter lettuce reveal booming local greenhouse production around Boston. Arlington leads in scale, with single facilities yielding up to 50,000 heads per winter and 14,400 heads in a third crop from a 35 by 23 foot house. Heads exceed a foot in diameter and nearly all survive. later the same houses pivot to cucumbers shipped to New York Philadelphia and Washington.
Orchard pest forecasts warn the forest worm threatens sugar maples while maple syrup prospects hinge on genuine product and price. Connecticut reports 15,000 miles of roads and overbuilt highway needs. Ex Secretary Sessions advises dairy cow feed improvements. Maine seed potatoes may beat others for yield. Cranberry harvesting costs leave slim margins. cranberry bonanza fading.
A poultry report notes flocks yield 88 to 120 hens over years with averages near 175 pounds per cow. It warns winter egg scarcity without green vegetables and meat bone feed, while fat birds bring returns to farmer and consumer. Dampness, disease and death begin with D in poultry care.
A farmer from Vermont discusses pasture management and feed quality, noting the cost and service differences between purchasing materials with higher nitrogen content and the impact on cows kept stalled. The excerpt mentions a director and dairy station, reflecting on practical challenges in dairy care and feeding trials.
Practical advice across farming labor, fruit tree care, and dairy economics. Guidance covers destroying tent caterpillars on apple trees, costs of butter and cheese production in Wisconsin, the need for competent farm hands, and teaching children thrift through poultry management. Emphasizes practical steps like clipping bark, burning nests, and keeping strict accounts.
Experiments by Heinrich Franck Son & Co and 16 European factory owners in Corunna Newport Corinth and Kenduskeag Me indicate chicory grows with fair success when growers follow factory directions. Best yields reach 10 to 12 tons per acre with deep loose soil and fall plowing. poor instruction adherence reduced results. seed is tiny and thrives on mellow ground. dry conditions lowered overall yield, with up to 8.5 tons per acre at Corinna.
The text argues bobolinks eat field grubs and insects, making them beneficial. It estimates a single pair eats hundreds of insects daily and a family’s total impact could reach significant agricultural value, suggesting economic worth in reducing pest damage.
In Self Culture Magazine for February a discussion notes the high economical value of the county's insectivorous birds. The figures cited aim to counter critics who belittle the worth of these feathered throng.
John Hobson in American advises sowing celery late February to early March for an early crop or finish in the seed bed if a later harvest is planned. Prepare ground with rotted manure, form a five row seed bed, roll seeds into soil, keep damp with board strips, and water generously. White Plume is highlighted as ideal for minimal blanching and high yield, with plans to harvest up to 300 heads from a small plot thirty by six feet.
J. J. Gregory discusses yields of sweet corn varieties verses field corn, noting Original Crosby as a seed grower’s key type with glazing and dark kernels, Quincy market as a high yielding large eared option, and Stowell Evergreen for dry corn. He cites Mexican sweet yielding up to 60 bushels per acre and average smaller varieties around 35 bushels, with marketability of ears in green state.
The discussion weighs flat versus round roosts for poultry, with Lowell Weekly Journal noting toes bend when a bird sits, favoring two equal-height roosts one round and one fat for birds to choose. Observers describe 3 inch wide roosts, level, about ten inches above dressing, twenty inches from floor, favoring broad comfortable rests and secure grip for small or sluggish breeds.
A wealthy widow living on Long Island declines staying in town after a dinner. She travels home with a well known man, fears a break in, and a thief climbs to her bed to steal jewels. She survives the night, consults a lawyer, and the man confesses a desperate motive and failed life plans.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe armored trains and security measures during a civil era, referencing American efforts to prevent oreder disruptions, port operations, and military logistics. The text mentions Wilmington and Baltimore lines, carrier protection, and port arrangements amid wartime constraints.
W E Curtis reports Moody refuses higher criticism preferring straightforward Scripture promises. He cites Come unto me as sufficient theology. A crowded fire scene follows with a tramp fainting. a spectator jokes the sight of water overwhelmed him, per Philadelphia Call.
The fragmentary text appears to record petitions before a county body, naming Denote J. Ring of Lowell and listing items such as weights, measures, and registration fees. The readable portion references orders by local officials, a meeting of the county assembly, and procedural notes for a 1 May convening, with scattered monetary terms and names.
New modern house of 7 rooms with attic pantry and bath hot and cold water sewer connections on a large corner lot near cars and schools rent 12.50 a month. Another 8 room modern house with attic pantry bath hot and cold water on a large corner lot near cars and schools rent 12.50 a month. Small down payment, balance same as rent. Several large house lots on principal streets with latest improvements from 15 to 300 dollars.
A yard sale style pitch offers a two story seven room house with a barn for four cows and two horses, 112 miles from Centre, plus 16 acres of wood and 134 total acres of land. It asks for 1000 dollars as the right party to buy and suggests looking at a 5000 dollar farm and that it will do you good to see it.
The readable parts describe a dated newspaper fragment with broken text and garbled names. It mentions numbers and places vaguely, but no clear event, person, or organization can be reliably identified. The piece seems to be an unreadable clip from a larger article.
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