Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-01-07

from pen Oh y. w Lang, Esq, 1neHlUer VI lug
Board for that county, which consists of about one
hundred and fifty pages. This article gives an &C.
count of the history, topography, geology, meteo-
rology statistics and photography of the county OF
Waldo; with sketches of its leading farms and
farmers, practical details relating to stock fruit.
grass and grain production lists of its trees, birds,
fishes, animals, &c. notices of its agricultural So
cieties farmers clubs and similar associations with
a valuable and suggestive summary treating ofthe
advantages and disadvantages of this county as o
farming section; the former OF which greatly pre-
dominate over the latter. 1t forms q valuable con-
tribution to the Secretary's Report, and helps to
give it distinctive Maine character. This report
ing upon the different counties in the State is a
matter that cannot be too strongly commended, and
is one that should he carried out until every county
IN Maine has been written up in similar manner
by some competent person. 1t was this plan, some
what more deliberately carried out, that gave the
first Board Of Agriculture in England its great use
funess and success, and it is good thing to have
1t adopted in our own State. In this instance the
plan has been well executed; and by it, readers of
the Report will gain good and correct view OF the
natural and agricultural resources of this county.
Following the survey of Waldo, there is an able
article on cattle breeding in its relations to dairy
farming which. now that greater attention is being
given to this subject, will be found of value to all
dairymcn, Or those who think of breeding for the
purpose Of obtaining ''good mixers
The report of the autumn meeting of the Board
held at Houlton in Aroostook county, occupies the
next one hundred pages. 1t embraces addresses
and lectures from Hon. Sidney Perham Rev.
Charles F. Allen, President of the State College,
Hon. Warren Percival, Hon. Edward Payson, Prof.
NJ C. Fernald Of the State College, z. A. Gilbert.
4 w NJ Dunbam and other m.
bers Of the Board. The subjects of these several
papers and addresses are as follows: Brains in
Agriculture, Our Dairy Interests, the Agriculture
OF Maine in Connection with Other Industries, His
tory ofAgricultural Implements, Ornamental Farm
ing, Breeding and Feeding of Farm Stock, Science
in Agriculture, Special Farming.
Following this is paper on Cheese Factories in
Maine, embracing reports from twenty-one fac.
tories, which have been in operation in our State
during the past year, an abstract of which we have
already published. This paper gives an account
of the establishment Of the Sandy River Cheese
Foctory in ISL, the first association of the kind
started in Maine; also of the Six Mile Falls Com
pany, organized at Glenburn in 1872, the second
cheese factory erected in this State. The other
factories were all started the past year. The re-
ports from the factories are quite lengthy, giving
all the details of the organization of the several
companies names Of officers, number and size OF
buildings, number of pounds OF milk received in
each month Of the season, number of pounds Of
cheese manufactured in each month, cost of max.
ing average price obtained, capital stock, and all
other details necessary to full understanding OF
the system OF associated dairying as now estab.
lished in our State. 1t is probable that should o
State Dairyman's Association be formed the pres
ent winter, they will in the future have similar
reports from all factories in Maine, which will
probably be published in our annual agricultural
volume.
At the conclusion of this are several pages of
suggestions and reflections from the pen'of Sccre-
tary Boardman, in which he calls attention to sew
eral important matters and gives summary of the
work of the Board for the past year. Among these
subjects are our agricultural societies and their
management, the State College and its needs, farm
improvements, farmers clubs, our agricultural
laws, the work of our genealogical and poultry
societies, and others Of equal importance. AS a
whole the report, in the amount and value of its
contents, and in point Of editorial supervision, is
fully equal to any volume of the series which has
preceded it while to Mr.. Boardman belongs the
credit of bringing out his report within the year for
which it is designed something which has not been
done for several years past, and of furnishing a
large amount of fresh and original reading matter
designed especially for the work.
The second part of this volume, which will con-
tain the transactions of the County Agricultural
Societies for the past year, is now ready for the
printer and the completed volume will appear
| within few weeks. Besides embracing the re-
ports of the county societies. 1t will contain prize
essay on the Agriculture of Knox County, and sew
eral other papers of much general interest.