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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1900
Page
9
The department invites Northern Middlesex farmers to exchange opinions and experiences in a concise column. Readers with brief lines are encouraged to write in, for the agricultural editor to edit into short, pointed paragraphs. Long essays are not desired.
The passage extols a rural ideal where God built the country and humans shaped the town. It argues health and virtue, gifts that sweeten life’s bitter draught, flourish in fields and groves and are least threatened there.
Maine experiment notes advise strawberries Cyde Glen Mary Sample Brandywine for best size quality and yield. Maine hens per pen show profit drops from 80c to 30c as flock size grows. Brunswick Maine initiates large scale town forest planting on 1000 acres of former pine land with $100 for initial work. Seedlings grown in a nursery will be planted in rows under Austin Cary supervision with forestry division aid.
A collection of agricultural notes praises nitrate of soda as a growth stimulant for plants and honors Ephraim Bull of Concord as a public benefactor. It covers seed potatoes, egg shell feeding to curb laying-hen appetite, potato scab prevention with formalin soak, and a farmer’s account of a choking cow treated with a rubber hose and lard oil.
The piece warns farmers about unseen annual pests and the lure of a one size fits all farming system. It argues adaptation to local conditions is essential, lest selfishness and false confidence lead to failure and wreckage in agricultural outcomes.
Samuel L. Taylor discusses spring and fall plowing versus their crop outcomes, pest ignorance, and the difficulty of judging farming success. He contrasts anecdotal testimonies from Middlesex County farmers with the philosophical question of inherited capital and personal influence on results.
A compact page combines brief notes on embryology of eggs and early sex differentiation in chicks, a tomato cultivation method urging careful staking and trimming, and a forestry study plan by U S Department of Agriculture. It also argues highways as a public policy and federal concern for interstate communication and taxation.
A yearbook from the department cites that one third of cows kept for milk do not cover their keeping costs and about one third more do not yield annual profit. The writer, a competent voice, notes potential slight improvement but no broad gains are evident despite ongoing agricultural agitation and experiment station reports.
The general proposition is true that a considerable portion of dairy cows produce either actual losses or very small net returns. Lack of exact information on milk quality and quantity and production costs causes this. Experiment stations studying farmer herds show wide variations in productivity and profitability.
The Chicago Record notes a steam powered sheep shearing plant at Sycamore with ten machines and over 15,000 sheep. Operators sheer with a gasoline driven clipper, removing wool quickly while keeping animals in good condition for market. R. M. Marquis of Mirabel, Missouri, reportedly sheared 275 sheep in 12 hours.
J I Carson a famed sheep drover plans to move 8500 yearlings from Morrow county Oregon toward Washington and Idaho May start after shearing. He aims to buy 6000 more but notes high prices and Oregon’s water and quaran tine issues may force routes via Heppner Huntington and Snake river crossing. He predicts this could be the last sheep trail across Idaho as water rights tighten and range fades.
Mr. Carson plans leading a band bearing 20 bells to guide sheep along a long trail through Oregon Idaho and Wyoming. He notes increased trouble from locals as markets rise and recalls past profits barely covering costs while recounting historic long treks and hopes for a profitable final run.
State Chemist J A Hummel explains a photographic method to distinguish genuine butter from oleomargarine using nickel prisms microscopes and a camera. A crystal pattern under light indicates impurities. if no crystals appear the sample is real butter. The technique aims to persuade juries where chemical tests fail.
The guide instructs pruning and training techniques for fruit and ornamental trees. It covers avoiding unnecessary cuts, establishing a central leader, handling crossing or resting branches, thinning suckers, and pruning for vigor. It also advises painting wounds above half an inch with linseed oil paint, gustar, or grafting wax.
A correspondent notes a unique merganser habit with migratory males and resident females. He recalls wintering females on Au Sable and other Adirondack rivers, while males form separate flocks in spring. He cites a notebook entry detailing a female merganser stomach contents including pickerel, bass, and sun perch.
Nearly new cottage in perfect order offered at 1250 dollars with 100 cash and five percent interest terms. Owner moved from the city and must sell. Also a fire double tenement on main street in ward 5 rented at 30 dollars monthly. Call T H Elliott at 64 Central Street for full particulars and bargain terms.
A Victorian guide describes jewel symbolism for weddings, detailing how diamonds, rubies, emeralds, turquoise, sapphire and topaz signify affection, charity, fidelity, sincerity, justice, true love, and riches. It notes bridal fashion shifts away from barquets and lace handkerchiefs toward a prayer book, recommends suede or glace kid gloves, plain silk stockings, white satin slippers, and presents a lettuce green satin ensemble with guipure trimming, green satin collar, and a black spaniel veil cap with white feathers.
The article describes gowns made from pastel cloth and other very light fabrics, with delicate painted garlands, guipure edges, and silk or muslin variations. A pastel blue costume features a four-plait skirt, blue velvet bolero, white mousseline chemisette, and a white straw hat with blue drapery secured by jeweled ornament.
Lowell and Boston routes show daily and Sunday departures from Merrimack and Essex Street depots with extensive lists for destinations including Boston Lawrence Salem Newburyport Amesbury Portsmouth Exeter Dover Rochester Somersworth Portland Augusta Bath Waterville Lewiston Bangor St Johnsbury and Montreal. Pricing and times vary by day with special Sunday and through service notes and multiple via routes.
A customer from Bowling Green Ohio credits Dean's Ointment with ending a long running leg sore after severe itching. The ad notes relief from burning and itching and claims a permanent cure. The piece also mentions a school superintendent Whitcomb triggering a rain responsive system where children perform a school maintenance routine.
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