Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-01
Our Maine Correspondence.

so called in compliment to its owner, Hen
rietta Marie, Queen Of Charles 1. 1t EN-.
braces an area Of $4,000 square miles or 20
million acres. Maine has a coast line, fol.
lowing all indeutatiOns of the sea, Of 1900
miles. Its surface is diversified, its soil
moderately fertile, aud its climate like that
OF Vermont.
Maine Granite.
Maine has great resources of slate, lime,
granite, and iron. We shall speak of these
at length in subsequent communications.
The granite lies along the coast and contigu-
GUS to the sea. Vessels come to the islands
on which the quarries are located, and load
tho manufactured stone with convenience.
Part of the quarries are worked the year
round. N. M. Hartwell, superintendent of
granite cutting at Fox Island, has received
the plans for the Cincinnati Court House,
Custom House and post Office, with instruc-
tions to commence work Immediately with
force Of 500 cutters. The Bodwell granite
company who have the contract for furnish
ing the granite, are now engaged in quarry
ing the stone.
Patrons of Husbandry
are rapidly increasing in this state, and
probably 800 oranges will be in operation
within the year to come One of the most
beneficial features of the grange is its social
capacity,-the bringing of the isolated farm
ers together at stated periods to learn, min
gle, teach, and grow better wiser, aud more
like other men and classes Of men.
The second annual meeting of the Maine
State Grange was held in Lewiston, Tuesday
of last week, 12j graugers were present.
womRn's Rights.
We quote the following from a well known
paper here THE decision of the supreme
court of this state, that women cannot exer-
else any of the offices specified in the cOnsti
tuition, acco.ds with that OF the Massachu.
sets supreme court on the same question
the provisions Of the constitution of that
state being similar to ours, and in fact, were
copied into ours when we became q state
Tue question is thus put beyond cavil. The
matter, though it has given rise to some dis
cussion, is, 10 fact, of but little Importance,
for but few women will be found desiring to
take upon themselves the masculine duty of
justice of the peace or other judicial office.
Women lawyers, women justices Of the peace,
aud women voters are the out-growth of a
mere fanciful idea that finds no support in
nature and cannot, therefore, ever prevail"
We beg leave to take issue with this, es-
pecialy the closing sentence. The type for
the paper, and perhaps that very item, was
set up, largely, by women. Had it also
been edited by women we should expect aud
also fud more sense, brains, and Broader
views in it. We believe women should be
debarred of no rights enjoyed by men. Why
should thoy2 Ga account of purity ? On
account of delicacyf On account of weak
ness We can not see it in that light. We
would accord them every privilege accorded
to the opposite sex.
Our Dairy Interest.
Toby Candor, the Augusta correspondent
of the Boston journal, furnishes statistics
which show that twenty-one cheese factories
we're in operation in 1873 in this state.
Their aggregate capital was s4l $50, and to-
tai product of cheese 376,555 pounds or over
one hundred and elghty-eight tons, with a
value of $685. ,l39. Sixty companies have
been organized in all, and forty have had
their works in operation the present year
Taking returns from twelve of these factor
les for the present year. aud estimating the
remaining twenty companies in operation, he
thinks the product Of cheese by these com
panies for 1874 has been at least 100000
pounds valued at 100000.
The product OF factory cheese for 1871
has more than doubled that of 1S73 anC
yet, even this, together with the larg'
amount made by private daries, hardly
meets half the demand for cheese from til,
state of Maine alone. That is, cheese fac
tories may be doubled in Maine, be fore tn,
demand from this state is supplied. And i
is evident that the demand will increase fast
er than the population, To-day good fac
tory cheese commands higher price in thi
state that it did before single factory wa
started in Name. There is little danger o
an over-supply of cheese, especially now tina
American cheese is being successfully export
ed. The treasurers of all the factories bea
witness to the financial success of this i'm
pOrtant enterprise.
Our Fish Interest.
The state fish commissioners report tha
they have taken 100000 salmon eggs fron
the breeding works at Bucksport the pas
year, and in addition 100000 have been re
ceived from the United States governmon
and 100000 from California, but the latte
we're so much damaged that they yiclde
very few fish. These eggs have been dis
tributed in the principal rivers, and hav
yielded not far from 93 per cent, thong
the yield in the natural state is only about
per cent, The fish have grown with wonder
full rapidity, but in many cases they hav
been waptonly destroyed through non.er
forcement Of the fish laws, and in some qua
ters the land-locked salmon are nearly el
tinct. The crying evil is the lack of fsl
ways and in some places there is an OrgaT
lied resistance to the law concerning then
The breeding works at Bucksport, which al
independent of the fish commission, hay
turned out 3,089,699 eggs from $50 breec
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