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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1902
Page
12
The editor invites local farmers to share short, pithy paragraphs for an agricultural discussion column. Readers are encouraged to contribute opinions, experiences, and items of interest, with longer essays discouraged.
A reflective verse meditation on life there is sin and struggle on the roads of life yet redemption remains possible. It notes crosses and passions, but holds that noble deeds endure and kindness can grow a seed of hope in every traveler.
A correspondent suggests farmers with dry wood sheds could sell excess wood to relieve the fuel shortage while replanting by cutting dead trees. The piece warns of forest fire risk from nut harvesters and praises firewards. It cites a state law and National Bureau of Forestry ideas like placards warning violators along roads and trails.
S W Parkhurst of Chelmsford harvested seventy bushels of Gravenstein apples this fall. New Hampshire and Vermont experiment stations report on cold storage results and pigmented pomace value for dairy feed. A Holstein cow in Minnesota is named world butter champion with 584 pounds of milk in seven days yielding 29 pounds 4.7 ounces of butter.
Correspondence argues over how to raise potatoes with Brother Fisk advocating New England methods. The writer cautions against planting on sod ground due to white grub habitat and moisture issues, sharing a limvie experience of rot in salted barrels and stressing the need for proper ground preparation and moisture management.
Samuel L. Taylor discusses potato cultivation amid debates on sod ground, deep furrows, and planting depth, mocking salt river sayings and noting Aspinwall planters a two inch depth. He critiques green manure use, then pivots to classroom questions about grafting causes, rot transmission, and potato parentage before signing.
Silo filling stresses even distribution and edge tramp levels to keep silage uniform and well preserved. California’s year’s harvest totals prunes peaches apricots apples pears plums raisins wool hops beets hay potatoes wheat almonds butter cheese and canned fruit in the millions. alfalfa crops progress with two more cuttings expected. The peach borer control via coal tar wash mixed with whale-oil soap arsenic and lime is urged, with continued vigilance. Mulching young fruit trees via cover crops and winter mulch is discussed as soil protection and fertility strategy.
Articles discuss orchard fall mulching with barnyard manure to protect young trees in cold climates. They outline prevention and control of bitter rot in Illinois apple sections, urging removal of cankers and mummied fruit, copper sulfate spraying, and careful sanitation to curb a $1.5 million loss in 1900.
Farmers Hornbeck and Flaxseed discuss missing gold bricks and dwindling markets in New York. They lament that the city is not what it was twenty years ago, saying you cannot even spend money freely and suggesting staying home to buy lightning rods.
A historic guide explains using clover for lime content and a two-part feed strategy. It details cutting, soaking, and mixing mash with bran cornmeal oat meal and clover hay, plus a late day full grain meal to keep hens active and avoid morning overfeeding.
The September Crop Report cites Prof J W Sanborn urging pasture improvement through soil fertility, correct grassing, and chemical fertilization. He favors mixed grasses, yard manure limits, and 125–150 pounds yearly chemical application for steady gains, with a long eight year rotation and tankage or bone meal as aids.
The Lowell jury awarded $650 to a woman who was thrown down stairs and left with a permanently injured spine, while the verdict reportedly valued at $20,000 in the Fall River breach of promise case appears out of proportion. A remark about preferring a broken heart over a weakened spine reflects harsh realities of personal injury outcomes.
A compact portrait of Rev Theodore L Cuyler D D LL D as the era’s eminent Brooklyn pastor and author. The memoir covers his boyhood in Aurora New York early education travels and contacts with Carlyle Wordsworth Campbell and Lincoln and other statesmen. It praises his memory lively anecdotes and engaging narrative while noting it remains concise and readable.
A new edition of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales with twenty four full page half tones and about ninety text cuts by American artist Joseph J Mora. Bound in cloth with a striking cover, prefaced by a brief biographical sketch. Dana Estes & Co Boston price 1.50 dollars.
American reporter Archer Butler Hulbert recounts Robert Martyn a U S consul nominee who joins Col Oranoff in a Russian plan to seize Quelparte then cedes to Japan. Martyn must move the late Queen s body from the temple at Ching Ling to Tel during a grand funeral as Russian agents and Prince Tuen threaten the mission.
A pastoral romance by Violette Hall centers on a literary couple who return home to find it burned. They camp in the woods reading Thoreau, find happiness until city friends disturb them, then a new love tale unfolds. Rural life triumphs with a happy ending at Chanticleer.
A 170 page devotional book offering twenty five brief messages to uplift readers in need of strength. Chapters range from Day Dawn in the Soul to Light at Evening Time and Our God as a Rewarder. Published as a Christmas gift book by Baker & Taylor Co New York priced at $1.00 net.
The October Gen. James Grant Wilson feature recalls Admiral David D. Porter and his role in naval operations. Vance Thompson presents the Holy Shroud relic account in graphic form. Florence Wilkinson contributes At Chenandilla Valley while Charles Henry Meltzer covers Eleonora Duse. Rupert Hughes offers Life in an Arizona Town and Beethoven Love Affairs. The issue also includes fiction, verse, and book reviews with illustrations.
The October Book Buyer magazine issue showcases a new cover and seven portraits headed by Owen Wister. It includes essays on Richard Harding Davis, Dr Edward Eggleston, Inland Voyage routes, two bachelors love stories, and discussions on The Virginian’s historical importance, English news, and more.
The October Little Folks issue features a frontispiece of children gathered around a blaze of autumn leaves and opens with a poem titled Autumn Leaves. It includes contributions such as Bernie and the Windmill, The Mocking Bird's Day, The Adventures of Spotty, The First Great Indian School, My Ride with Wild Roan, and Beggar Man, with illustrations designed to delight young readers.
The October issue features 80 pictures and stories for boys including Napoleon Bonaparte chapters 11, The Strike at the Continental, The Resurrection of Sleepy Hollow, Muawak A Tale of the North, Alexander the Great and Bucephalus, A Matter of Land football tale, Kit Carson the Scout, and The Wreck of the My Love.
The October Bookman features many articles and illustrations. Chesterton writes on Matthew Arnold while Thomas Hardy's Women and Maurice Hewlett's Italy appear. Other pieces include The Land of the Pilgrim's Progress and Leo XIII Poems. Reviews, chronicles, and fuel for fire chapters cap the issue.
Col Curtis Guild Jrs article The Spellbinder in November Scribners offers practical public speaking guidance with anecdotes from recent campaigns and drawings by Edward Potthast. Macmillan to publish Crawford novel Cecilia A Story of Modern Rome this month. Dix presents A Little Captive Lad about Cromwellian times with a cavalier child and Puritan kin, eight full page Will Grefe illustrations.
Dr Richard C Newton of Montclair N J argues in the Medical Review that girls bear heavier school demands due to weaker physical equipment and restrictive Dress culture. He cites mothers who allow barefoot play and outdoor exercise, producing sturdy tomboy daughters free of nervous prostration and irritability.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex probate court in Lowell cites heirs at law creditors and others interested in the estate of Philippe Landry who died testate in Lowell. Petition seeks letters of administration to Joseph B Lapierre with Cambridge court hearing October 28 1902 and weekly notices in Lowell Daily Courier for three weeks.
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