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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1902
Page
8
A Northern Middlesex farmer page invites readers to contribute brief, pithy agricultural notes for an opinion exchange. The editor urges concise lines, calls for farmers with few lines to share their experience, and offers to edit for the column.
Lucy E. Tilley recalls a child chasing a butterfly through a meadow. A passerby re-enters forgotten rooms and garrets, smelling pennyroyal and sage as autumn mornings fade. The dream quickly passes, leaving the echo of laughing children and herb scented, cobwebbed spaces.
A pessimistic farmer writes that independence on the farm wanes as fairs and shows tempt him to spend. An agricultural writer notes farmers need diverse foods and may shift from pork to beef. Seeds dealer says alfalfa demand is light and clover thrives. grass crops face poor prospects this season. A wet May may fail to fill barns, urging careful silo planning.
Correspondent notes farmers who began planting in March report peas sown March 31 blossoming by May 23 and outperforming later sowings. Early Fortune potatoes show rot and weak vigor, while varieties like Queen Rose Delaware Green Mountain Columbia and Early Northern fare better. Farmers discuss interplanting corn and beans, hazards from crows, and the value of proactive scare methods.
A brief quotation notes that crows will appear flat to observers and that the creature fears danger, though they pose no harm to anyone including humans or the birds. Samuel L. Taylor signs the reflection.
California measures show spraying for peach care saved an estimated 400000 dollars statewide in one year. The note adds a light aside that chickens need grit, similarly people do.
An excerpt urges protecting street trees to improve health and shade, advocating local control of trimming and replanting, and noting examples in Clinton Connecticut and Clinton New York. It warns against clearing trees to let sun dry water and calls for town guardianship of urban greenery.
In planting new orchards, start heads four feet high with low spreading tops to aid spraying and reduce picking costs. Low headed trees allow higher daily fruit yields. Irrigation increases berry size, appearance, flavor, and profits, likened to adding water to milk.
The Country Gentleman notes that hens convert feed into eggs quickly and stresses the importance of quality food and water. Water from hog or cow pens and musty grain can flavor eggs, while clean yards and superior feed yield eggs with the finest flavor.
Prof. Johnson in Homestead advises growers to rely on mechanical controls and early planting to protect green peas from pests. Row spacing 24 to 30 inches, 1% bushels seed per acre, and cultivation improve resistance. brushing with brush can roast insects on hot days. a wagon-like pan can collect and destroy them. A diluted whale oil soap sprayer can treat several rows. broadcast planting remains favored in some regions while trials continue elsewhere.
A Tribune Farmer writer argues against plowing up strawberry beds after one crop. Old beds yield fruit earlier and more profit, with larger first-week returns. He recounts advice given to a fruit grower to burn and reseed old plots, then cultivate and mulch to prevent disease and boost vines, noting best crops come from seasoned beds when burned at the right time.
Charles W. Armour of Armour slaughtering interests in Kansas City outlines reasons for high meat prices. He cites dry weather across Kansas Oklahoma northern Texas Nebraska Missouri and parts of Iowa reducing livestock receipts in the five major markets. He notes month to date receipts in Chicago St Louis Omaha St Joseph and Kansas City show a year over year drop.
The document notes rising costs across products and inputs from hogs to cattle and lumber. Prices for coal and pig tin have surged, with pig tin now about 28 cents per pound and lumber costs up about seven dollars per thousand feet. Labor remains steady to higher, and cattle on the hoof cost 1 to 1.25 cents more than a year ago, challenging packing houses to keep beef affordable amid drought-depressed Western receipts.
Sunday rest topic dominates Eliots Church gathering with discussion on golf as one form of recreation. A group considers how leisure activities fit into church life and moral conduct.
A Lord's Day Conference on Sunday rest and worship was hosted by the Lowell Ministerial Association at the Eliot church under the New England Sabbath Protective league. Speakers urged stronger Sabbath enforcement, discussed Sunday trade, labor impact, and civic duties, and emphasized religious and national implications of honoring a day of rest.
All authorities urge a local adapted field corn variety for silo growth. Plant sparsely to encourage ears, ensuring early completion of growth in short seasons. Ensilage provides bulk while grain supplies nutrition, improving milk yield and steer growth. quality trumps bulk.
A Mexican rider buys a saddle with 25 silver dollars in Los Plagos. The crowd urges a showdown as the pony twists and strikes, a shot rings out, and the animal is shot after injuring the man, who is carried away to the Red Raven.
Middlesex County town group of the Massachusetts State Sunday School association gathered at the First Congregational church in Tewksbury. Attendees heard addresses from Rev. J Herbert Yeoman Channing Whittaker Tyngsboro Rev. E H Roper Westford Rev H B Foster Rev N W Matthews Rev R F True and discussions by Mrs Asa Reed Dilts and Mrs Leon Bell followed by department work conferences. Deacon J H Kimball Lowell led a devotional service with further talks by F G Kellogg Malden district H L Tibbetts and Willard Everett of Lowell.
In Chelmsford the Young People's Religious union of the Unitarian society was represented at the Boston anniversary meetings by Mrs. Charles E. Parkhurst, Mrs. Edgar F. Parkhurst, and Mrs. Wm. H. Hall. The cemetery southwest corner at Forefathers has been improved with removal of boulders and brush and grading raising the ground. The area now hosts shrubs and flowers, making the neglected corner an agreeable sight and a credit to the supervising board.
The Chelmsford Spring company has begun its output of summer beverages with a distributing agent in each principal city in the State. Miss Maria L. Reed returns east after a winter in California. Sunday services note All Saints morning 10.45 and evening 7 with Sunday school at noon. Unitarian pastor to preach in the morning and Rev Edward Everett Hale to speak in Lowell in the evening.
Acton Centre reports new summer residents including C G Dole at the old homestead and E F Conant expanding his estate with large porches. Cannon donated by the government has been mounted in town. Mrs John McCarthy, a longtime resident, died after brief illness. Rev F P Wood preached. Mrs Copping led missionary services. Council to discuss Rev Bernard Copping dismission on June 4. O D Wood leased his house to Mr Payson of Maiden for permanent residence.
The large double house housing H A Bixby and Fred W Walker was struck by a severe electrical storm Saturday night. No injuries occurred but the building sustained substantial damage to five rooms. Affected wires and scattered damage were noted as the town endured heavy rain. Memorial day plans and health updates for Oliver Bartlett Richardson were also mentioned in the community notices.
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