The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-08-30
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
News and Notes,

The Oxford Democrat says that a COW
owned by VIM. Kelly of Fryeburg, has given
birth to calf with five well formed feet and
legs. The fifth leg comes out just back Of
the fore-shoulder and hangs about two-thirds
to the ground, and is perfect in shape.
The crops in Franklin county are looking
well, but some danger is apprehended from
potatoe rot.
Waldo county fairs will be held as
follows the coming autumn: Waldo, at
Belfast, September 24-27 inclusive. North
Waldo, at Thorndike Station, Thursday
October Attn. Waldo and Penobscot, al
Monroe, October I'd and Sd. There will
also be town fairs at Montvile, Searsport
and Stockton, the time of which is not vel
fixed.
The farmers of Oxford county will harvest
this fall more potatoes than they have ever
before done in one season. The acreage
planted was very broad one, and the season
has been in every respect favorable.
Mr.. D. M. Sturdivant of No. Range |
Oxford county (Magalloway) is one of the
most extensive farmers in the county. He
has twelve acres of potatoes, twenty-five
acres of oats and cuts fifty tons of hay, and
winters fifty head of cattle and six horses.
The New Hampshire State Agricultural
College is $4,000 behind, needs $500 for new
instruments and repairs, and also more stu.
dents, as independent of the new class there,
are but eleven.
California has 3,S00,OOO fruit trees, and
100000 grape vines, and harvests from
3oO,OO0,0OO to 5O0,OOO,OOO pound DIS of frui,
yearly. Her prosperity therefore is not q
matter of surprise.
One establishment in Burlington, N. j.,
cans $50 bushels of peas daily. 1t is esti-
mated that 100000 cans of peas and 10000
cans of tomatoes will be put up before the
summer is over.
The New Hampshire board of agriculture
hold thirty meetings in the various counties
through the fall and winter, beginning at the
agricultural college farm in October. The
secretary will collect specimens for the mu.
scum, and obtain plaster of Paris models Of
the various fruits raised in the state.
The wheat crop raised in Vermont this
year is satisfactory in yield and quality.
The powerful showers of the past three
weeks have prevented many of the Bethel
farmers from finishing their haying, and much
grain is seriously injured, having sprouted in
the field. The potato crop is seriously in
tured by the rust, and it is feared that the re.
suit will be rot, and very small yield. The
hop crop has also been much injured by the
rain and high winds.
G. Edgar Smith of Trenton in Hancock
county, has head of thoroughbred short
horned Durhams, which include importations
from Kentucky and England; also some full
blooded Berkshire swine, and other thorough
bred stock which he expects to exhibit at the
New England Fair this fall.
Salt when employed as fertilizer, must be
used with great caution, and only as top
dressing; heavy dressing will destroy mos
plants.
The silk crop of France for the present year,
it is estimated, will be more than three times
as great as that of last year, when it was gen.
orally failure.
Wherever charcoal is present to a consider
able amount in the soil, there grapes and all
kinds of fruit flower luxuriantly, and mildew
is entirely unknown.