The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-01-26


vited stock-raisers and borticulturDs are IN.
as nave rome within tbsir own .rner,ence and OH
S'A'n' ''r the general advancement OF the cause.
Charles Hill, ESQ.,, of saco, a gentleman
eminentl7 well qualified to form a correct
opinion upon the subject matter, state, as the
result OF his observation during an extensive
tour through the Western States last fall, that
it is much better for New England farmers to
remain at home than to 90 West In the ex.
pectation OF acquiring fortune more speed.
lily. They raise larger crops "out West" than
here, but the prices realized are so much
smaller that the result of years work will
not vary much from years work East, while
there is nothing to compensate for the loss Of
yankee society, and the privileges" so dear
10 the New England heart. He thinks that
homesickness is prevalent and chronic dis
ease with those who have moved towards the
setting sun, especially after their own sun has
passed the zenith, and they find them.elyes
on tue decline that gently slopes to Jordan.
Messrs. l. and N. Dane Jr., of Kenuebunk.
are The most prominen. breeders of Aver.
shires in this State
The recently appointed cattle commissioners
found the legislation of 1882 amply sufficient
to meet the exigency occasioned by the .Foot
and Mouth" disease, and have taken yirorou,
measures TO prevent its spread.
Each incorporated agricultural society in tbs
State is obliged to pa7 one fourth Of the State
bounty for the establishment of Farmers'Clubs
and the delivery ofagricultural lectures in their
respective localities. This is expended under
direction OF the trustees, and is usually paid
TO some one to visit different localities in the
country, assist in organizing clubs and lectur-
ing before them.
The Maine Farmer thinks the State OF
Maine is suffering at the present time from
too much horse. 1t says that every farmers
boy is raising colt and looking forward to a
splendid 3trotter" worth $1,000, or $4,000. The
editor calculates that il costs S195, to raise a
three year old colt, and that their average
market value at that age is not over $3.50,
showing loss of S45. He calculates the prof.
it on hefer of the same age after allowing
for cost OF keeping and trouble, at S14.
The farmers Of Penobscot county made a
good showing at their last exhibition. The
first premiums on wheat were to Otis W. Rol.
Inns OF Dexter for 40 bushels Oh two acres,
and to Hall Bagley OF Charleston, for 23
bushels on one acre; on oats to F.F. Crane
OF Kenduskeag, for 81 bushels per acre; on
corn to VIM. Grinnell of Exeter, for go
bushels of ears on two acres, and to j. Camp.
bell of Corinth, for sos bushels on two acres.
to Hall Ragley for 3l2 bushels on one acre,
and to r. w. Doe of Corinth, for 1913 bushels
on one half acre.
A correspondent of the Farmer is panied
to notice that many houses in soms of the
best farming towns in Waldo county arc va
cant and rapidly going to ru and decay.
''ll fares the land to fastening ills = prey
Where foedtm accumulates and msn decay"
Isaac Coffin OF Thorndike will pay $500, for
a mate to three year cd bright red grade
Durham steer raised by him aid girting feet
8 Sinches; feet inches high and fset2
inches in length. He has had no provender
except potatoes, until the present month.
% hens of no particular breed, belonging to
Ira Dale of Brewer, laid 345 dozen eggs last
year. If any body's hens have done better
than that let us know and it shall appear In
the Press.
Mr.. Lamss, the best experimental farmer in
England, has tested the value of the manure
made by animals fed differently. These are
his conclusions:
tun Of wheat bran makes manure worth. .e4ro
.un OF clover hay.
tuh VI oats. ........-.............7T0
e
tuu of meadow hay. ..............,,......e43
A tun of oats etraw. . On
'uh oi "heat straw. ........................269
Msngel Wurzel is German for root OF scar
city" it having been used in Germany instead
ofbread, in time of famine. In this country
and England custom sanctions the use of the
word MarigoM.
lis quite generally believed that house,
plants are injurious to health if allowed in
sleeping rooms. Whether this belief /. we'll
founded or is simply "notion" We are unable
to say. In view of the fact that persons ex-
hale carbonic acid which is poisonous, and In
bale oxygen which isenot, while plants absorb
the carbonic acid which we breathe in, it
would seem to be "notion." But there may
be another view of the matter, and If any
reader of the PRESS knows anything about
1t, let bin forthwith state 1t and "faith we'll
print it."
Boston wants the next New England Fair
and begins to enumerate reasons Why IL
should be held there. Bunker hill monument
is the weishtiest and the big organ the most
stunning.
We move that the managers of the County
Agricultural Societies in Maine offer premi-
ums for the best specimens oil darning anil
patching exhibited at the Fairs next autumn.
Boston Common contains just fotty-nine
and three-fourths acres. ......... ....
Ex-Gov. Chamberlain has been mentioned
in connection with the Presidency Of our
State Agricultural College. 1t would be an
app ointment eminently satisfactory to our
people, and we trust il will be made and ac-
cepted.
A correspondent of the Plougman having
19 hers on hand, January /, 1870, finds that
the net profit from the same during the year
amounted to S93.57.
Wells ought to be covered. Otherwise the
family cat may tumble in and be drowned, :,
which would be bad for the cat and bad for
the well and consequently too (two) bad.
4 10000 copies of Sec. Goodae's Agricultural
report were printed last year, at a cost TO the
State of SS,4o4,46.
We know several young men who tiripg of
the "sow" way of doing things here In Maine
concluded to 60 West last year. When bid
ding edieu to the sold MANI and other mem.
bers of the family, they looked pert as roost-
ers. Upon their return they looked more like
hens which had been out in heavy rain.
Martin Burr writes us from Des Moines,
Iowa, that seeing wagon load of very large
onions in front of a grocery, he was moved to
make inquiries by which he learned that the
owner raised 9S6 bushels from 8 IA acres-
That they were not matured, hoed, weeded or
thinned out after being sowed. That the land
was formerly covered with witch hazel brush
which was powed in a year ago last summer.
The seed was sown early last spring, and
nothing more was done until harvest. Many