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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1902
Page
8
The agricultural editor invites reader contributions to a farmers' column for opinion exchange and experience sharing. Short, pithy paragraphs are preferred. long discussions are discouraged. Writers are urged to submit brief lines for possible editing and publication.
A poem by James Whitcomb Riley celebrates spring and renewal. The speaker imagines returning work and garden chores eased by warm sun, buzzing bees, and blooming dogwood as the countryside comes alive. The refrain repeats the line when the green gits back in the trees.
Editorial discusses seed potato size and cutting to two or three eyes, notes scab prevention via a non-poisonous forma lin wash, warns against wood ashes, and recommends Swiss chard greens over dandelion or beet tops. Advises obtaining reliable seed from Bartlett & Dow at 216 Central Street.
Article notes two and one half quarts of skim milk yield roughly the same protein as a pound of round steak and similar food value. It estimates about 18 million dairy cattle in the country. Nitrate of soda praised as a top nitrogen fertilizer for tomatoes. A Western man quips barbed wire should be renamed barbarous wire.
Ohio correspondence argues red clover can restore pastures and sustain fall grazing if ground is prepared with spring cultivation and thorough fertilization. The piece notes hard, compact soil from repeated cropping and laments scarce skilled farm labor across regions, urging adaptation and use of fall works and fertilizers.
Rural New Yorker notes thinning fruit is crucial after fertilization to produce fine, marketable fruit. It warns high-branch trees raise costs, advises July timing, and highlights low-headed trees as profitable. It recounts shaking 200000 peach and 10600 plum trees at Fort Valley to combat curculic beetles, with 137000 beetles killed. Also promotes Angora goats for brush clearance in New England pastures and cites strong fleece prices of 35 to 40 cents per pound.
A civic essay urging training of boys from ages ten to twenty to become the farm and national leaders. It argues well trained farmer boys belong on farms to raise productivity and improve society, and they should enter politics and lawmaking to curb corporate rapacity and uphold integrity. It emphasizes patience, knowledge of nature, and honesty as core traits.
Fred Grundy argues before the Farmers Institute of Christian and Bond Counties Illinois that education favors professionals over farmers. He urges reform to train farm boys, provide good land plots, and extend town conveniences to keep youths on farms, noting soils fertilizers and other agricultural basics are poorly taught in schools. He stresses intrinsic value of farming and urges broad, practical agricultural instruction.
Col Robert Mitchell Floyd recounts an American Highlander tale about the Findon haddie. A Port Lethen fire smoked haddock over kelp, creating the famed finnans haddies. The story links the name to a seaweed cured haddock and the trade glory of Findon dealers.
The 1901 world corn crop totaled 2 822 900 000 bushels, with the United States producing about 2 105 103 000 bushels or 74.57 percent of the world total. Austria-Hungary was next, under 6 percent, while remaining production of about 717 797 000 bushels was shared among 17 countries. The figures reflect the major role of the US and note geographic distribution limits.
The 1900 crop totaled 3,320,872 acres, the largest up to that date and 1,212,285 acres more than 1899. The 1900 yield marked the sixth high in records. Estimated farm value on December 1, 1900, stood at $751,220,034, over $170,000,000 above the combined value of wheat, oats, rye, and barley crops.
Guidance from American Agriculturist on choosing heavy loams with some clay, avoiding sandy soils, and selecting elevated sites for orchards to improve drainage air circulation and frost protection. Recommends pre-plant soil cultivation, spacing of 35 to 40 feet, double planting fillers, careful removal as trees mature, and consistent shallow spring cultivation plus summer harrowing and a cover crop for soil and tree health.
The Massachusetts Ploughman urges farmers to use silos to weather high grain prices. With corn costly, hay and ensilage keep cattle through winter and can boost profits. Hold grain for meat value, and expand ensilage now to meet next seasons needs.
A narrator laments humanity and finds solace in a simple cart-horse. The poem praises the horse’s patient brow, weary mane, and uncomplaining eye as a small beacon of beauty and kindness in a troubled city.
A critical look at Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles praising its suspense and Doyle’s detective craft while contrasting dialogue quality with other writers. The piece locates the setting in Devonshire moor and cites key places, characters, and the enduring intrigue of Holmes and Moriarty.
Edward Stratemeyer begins a Pan American travel tale for youths. Five American boys and their tutor voyage from New York to La Guayra stopping at Caracao Caracas Macuto and Maracaibo before reaching the Orinoco region. They explore plantations mines vast prairies and encounter exciting events in a hopeful conclude.
A historical juvenile tale recounts Camilla Negroni flee to banditti, join patriots during the 1735 rebellion in Genoa, and the brief reign of Theodore von Neuhof as Theodore I. Though deposed after three summer months, he remains famed as King for a Summer.
The current issue includes Roger Williams and the Plantations at Providence by E. J. Carpenter and The Pennsylvania Germans by Lucy Forney Bittinger with careful archival research. Cape Cod Notes and Lakes of Cape Cod by S. S. Abbott add variety, plus two Washington Greene letters and two stories As It Was Written and The Regeneration of Young Hawley. A Lancaster Mass letter on Unitarian history with Sampson Wilder connects maker Almon Gunnison.
The Strollers explores the stage world and the men and women who shape it, offering a look at how this intimate sphere reflects and critiques the larger outside world. It examines how performers mirror society’s faults and virtues while remaining a self-contained, fascinating realm.
In a humorous exchange a character notes the signature on every bar of the laxative remedy while a doctor is praised. A claim is made that the remedy cures a cold but is joked to have worsened a mother-in-law's cold into pneumonia, highlighting a manic comedy moment.
The April issue of the Writer is titled Hale Birthday Number and presents brief tributes to Edward Everett Hale from nearly fifty prominent American writers. It includes editorials and sections like Scrap Basket Writers of the Day Personal Gossip About Authors and Current items.
The May issue of The Engineering Magazine presents an illustrated review of Coal Resources of the Pacific Coasts by Harrington Emerson, a practical plan for railway development in Federated South Africa by A Cooper Key, plus features on a large grain elevator by Willey, money making management for workshops by Carpenter, and a look at the growth of economy in marine handling by McFarland.
An excerpt discusses a panel by Mr. Buchanan on the False Witness of the Test Bar and Mr. Falconer presenting the Factory Office as a productive department rather than a general expense. The text notes many illustrated articles and mentions the Review and Index of the Engineering Press surveying current engineering literature worldwide.
May brings new novels by Lilian Bell and Anice Fellows-Johnston as Page & Co publish Abroad with the Jimmies and Asa Holmes at the Cross Roads plus news of Two Sides of a Question praise. McClure Phillips announces Temple Moliere volumes and Booth Tarkington works with a new Indiana life novel. Anthony Hope inspired by Cecil Rhodes, and Frank Stockton’s Kate Bonnet gains navy library orders amid rapid editions.
Edward Frederic Benson author of Dodo has completed another society novel titled Scarlet and Hyssop to be published by D Appleton Co. The work portrays London society with sharp social insight and hints of possible real-life identifications. Benson is thirty four and highly knowledgeable about his subject.
Rev J A Baldwin notes that 54 families in a southern factory area split work hours with 26 in the fly, 14 at night, and 14 mixed day and night. He describes mothers rising at 4 AM for day workers, meals timed to shifts, and long weekly hours of about 66. Summer sleep deprivation, heat, noise, and light disrupt rest, fostering physical and spiritual illness. some repair work extends to Sundays.
Walter H. Page describes a small southern town near a railway station with three influential families, a cluster of Negro shanties, nearby farms, and remnants of old plantations. Churches figure, revival fervor divides churches, and schooling is scarce, with a rare school built by a young woman until marriage. Life flows slowly, politics, religion, crops, peaches, watermelons, and Civil War memories shape daily talk.
The kitchenette is a new concept in apartment hotels though common in city flats. The article notes varieties like bedroomettes and ballettes, suggesting flexible naming for compact living spaces.
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