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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1900
Page
7
Readers are urged to submit short, pithy paragraphs for the agricultural column in Northern Middlesex papers. The note stresses concise exchanges, edited by the agricultural editor, and welcomes varied farming tips and experiences.
Editorial notes Act 379 prohibits buying selling or possessing woodcock or partridge for three years with a $20 fine per bird. Nearby, apple harvest delayed two weeks but expected larger fruit. Secretary Stockwell issues eighth edition of abandoned farms catalogue listing 136 in Massachusetts, eight in Middlesex, average 135.36 acres and asking price 1720.62 dollars.
Joseph Meehan, a noted authority, favors early fall for planting evergreen hedges. In Oklahoma, English sparrows damage grapes, while a new rose variety named Helen Gould blossoms. A Garden ing correspondent notes seed crop shortages in England and the continent. Porter apple, once inferior, is exceptionally good this season. Experiments in England compare fertilization: sulphate of ammonia yields best quality, nitrate of soda yields largest yield.
A farmer with a prominent New York orchard emphasizes pruning every February and May, using bean vines between tree rows as manure. He notes six pruning cycles since 1877 and cites multiple sources on pruning, spraying, and farm methods.
The article urges fruit growers to accept risks from weather and markets, stressing that final quality determines price. It warns that blending high and low grade fruit harms reputation and profits, while proper sorting, packing, and honest shipment elevate value in home and export markets. It cites dealers who favor top quality and shows how careful packing and presentation boost sales at hotels, restaurants, and rail stations.
A portrait of the Maiden Lady in Atlantic state villages as central social force. She hosts clubs and sociables, guides newcomers, sustains love stories, and embodies enduring precedence. Her home creates community, extends influence beyond youth and beauty. The Parker girls stand as kinship labels in town lore.
T W Higginson argues wealth does not elevate the lone country bachelor after age, noting social position favors women as central figures of the household. He contrasts self-sufficient households of women with male-only homes, insisting the home is upheld by women who remain essential when men cannot.
Step by step instructions for stewing ox tails with onions spices and a butter flour gravy, simmered until tender then enriched with lemon juice and mushroom sauce. Also includes stewed pears with gelatine glaze, milk batter cakes, cucumber in brown gravy, and a crab salad with lettuce watercress egg beetroot or tomato garnish.
The Ohio Dairy and Food Commissioner report shows 919 of 1471 food samples contained adulterants. Many adulterants were harmful antiseptics. coal tar coloring often harmed digestion. Coffee, cheese, fats, jams all showed high levels of adulteration. The Dairy World urges stricter laws and punishment for dishonest manufacturers, condemning arsenical colors in butter.
Instructions describe making a pastry dough by rubbing flour and butter, adding water, rolling and layering with butter, resting, then preparing boiled cauliflower with Dutch sauce. Dutch sauce uses butter, bread crumbs, lemon juice and rind, eggs, flour, sugar, and boiling water. The dish is assembled as a pie with an under crust, baked, then frosted with beaten egg whites and sugar until lightly browned.
The article from Live Stock Journal urges farmers to improve egg output by selecting the best layers and breeding for high egg records. It recommends culling underperformers, providing warm housing and varied, clean feeds, and mating top layers with strong laying cockerels to push egg production from 100 to 150 or 200 per hen annually.
Cut six ounces of ham fry in butter with garlic parsley onions bay leaf basil thyme and cloves. Simmer with pepper cayenne celery tarragon vinegar and consomme. Strain. Boil milk in double boiler. Cook tomatoes then mix with flour roux and milk, season and serve.
Peel two dozen sour oranges and seed them. In a preserving kettle, combine fruit with as much sugar as it weighs and enough water to dissolve it. Boil slowly, then after ten to fifteen minutes add grated orange peel. Boil fifteen minutes more and pack into glass jars or cups.
The Electrical Review notes leaves show a measurable potential difference between illuminated and shaded halves under favorable conditions. A. D. Waller compares this leaf response to nerve and muscle excitation, with currents flowing from lighted to shaded areas during exposure and reversing afterward, strongest in young leaves and fading with fatigue unless given time to recover.
A set of kitchen directions describe making a chocolate blancmange by melting chocolate into hot milk with eggs sugar and corn starch then molding and serving with cream and sugar. It also covers a tomato flavored rice side dish boiled with water salt tomato juice and rice, finished with melted butter and kept warm for dinner.
Lift three heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder with three quarters of a pound of flour. Beat four eggs until light, separate yolks and whites, and cream together half a pound of sugar with a quarter pound of butter. Add beaten yolks and stir in one teacup of cream, the flour and whites alternately. Stir in three teaspoonfuls of almond water. Bake in a buttered pan and cut in squares. Slice beef kidney, flour and fry brown. Make gravy in the pan with butter, boiling water, pepper, salt and mushroom catsup. Pour over kidney and serve.
Beat sugar eggs and butter then whisk in milk flour and baking powder. Mix three minutes, pour into a shallow square tin and bake in a fairly quick oven.
A historic household recipe directs boiling five pounds of grapes to a pulp then straining. Add two pounds of sugar, a pint of vinegar, and a spice blend of cinnamon cloves allspice and pepper. Boil two hours and bottle in glass.
An October Ladies' Home Journal piece quotes an English visitor in America noting 500 social classes. It depicts distinct rank among shop workers, clerks, drivers, and porters, warning of inequality while craving home footing. The page also mentions farm accidents and promotes Dr Thomas's Electric Oil for instant relief. It closes with a jab at Knights of Pythias social nights.
Pick and clean the quail, split down the back, season with salt and pepper, and baste with melted butter while broiling over a Clear fire. It takes twelve to fifteen minutes to broil quail. Have ready as many slices of toast as there are birds, place a bird on each slice and serve at once.
Mix one pint water with two ounces butter and six ounces corn starch then beat five whole eggs and the whites of five additional eggs. Beat well and bake in patty pans or on buttered paper as small spoonfuls until set.
An extravagant Paris exhibition item offers a Panama hat priced at 400 dollars to be filled with four pounds of tea for 800 dollars and a 240 carat diamond valued at 1.4 million dollars. Orchids at 7.5 dollars each decorate the hat, with a 3 percent commission possible for brokers.
Beat three eggs for five minutes. Add a cup of sugar and beat two minutes more. Stir in one cup of flour and a teaspoon baking powder. Flavor to taste. Bake at once in a quick oven.
Stir together sugar butter eggs and milk. Mix flour baking powder. Bake in three layers with jelly between and a frosting on top. A concise vintage-style recipe for a jelly cake with three layers and buttercream finish.
Offer describes unlimited hot water on demand with automatic gas shutoff when faucet is turned off. The Kenwood heater requires no boiler though compatible with one, and an office demonstration promises clear advantages. Also touts the Yusea mantle for brighter light and longer life, plus gas cooking ranges sold at cost.
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