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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-01-14
THE PRESS.
The Agricultural College.

The condition of the Agricultural College
at Orcne is in most respects exceedingly
gratifying. Gov. Conner In his message to
the Legislature says 1t Is doing as good service
to the State as the facilities at Its command
enable it to do. While similar institution
In the neighboring State Of New Hampshire
languishes, with barely sufficient strength to
retain its hold on existence, and with scarce
half dozen students within its walls the
Orono college is strong and vigorous. One
hundred and eighteen young men at the
present time are enjoying the instruction Ct
its able corps of professors. 1t will require
further aid from the State perhaps, but not
because it Is weak, but because its develop
ment has been so rapid that it has already
outgrown Its accommodations.
These signs of prosperity ought to be very
gratifying to all who have the welfare of the
State at heart. Our population is largely en-
gagged in agricultural pursuits and anything
that tends to make this business more pros
porous adds greatly to the wealth of the
State. The founders of this institution saw
that Maine needed more educated farmers
and to supply them was their purpose in es-
tablishing it. During the brief period in
which it has been in operation it has done
good work. 1t has sent to the country many
skilled farmers, and through them has reached
thousands of others who had been content to
plod on In the way their fathers did before
them, and awakened them to the value of the
study of the science of agriculture. A wide
field of usefulness is yet open to it in this d.
rection. There is undoubtedly still large
class among our agricultural population who
look upon learning for the tiller of the soil as
costly ornament, of little or no utility. They
admit the value Of study to the lawyer or the
physician but hold that all the farmer needs
to win success is the ability and disposition
to labor increasingly with his hands. A book
farmer is their adherence, and they regard
him as visionary, impracticable person who
is always originating new tangled notions.
but never succeeds in getting living off the
the farm, and they enormously attribute his
failure to his books. The existence Of such a
class is a great hindrance to agricultural
progress. 1t is dead weight which must be
removed, and the only way to accomplish the
task is by demonstrating to its members
that knowledge is power in farming as well as
in everything else and that, other things be-
ing equal, the most scientific farmer is the
most successful.
This work is one which can be successfully
performed only by educated farmers, such
as the Orono college turns out,an the money
1t costs to produce them is of small account
compared with their value to the pros
perity of the state.
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-Lawes and Gilbert's experiments proved
that for every 100 pounds live weight the pig
would eat daily, when fattening, 20 to 80
pounds, for which u per cent. was stored up
In the animal, showing that 923 per cent.
passed the animal in Its excretions. In the
case OF tae sheep 15 pounds, of which per
cent was stored up in the animal; the OK, u
to Is pounds, of which 81 per cent. was stor-
ed up in the animal. Based on the dry
weight of the food, the pig stores up about 20
per cent. sheep II per cent OK per cent
showing that the feeding of pigs and sheep Is
more than that of oxen.
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AS a window plant, there is nothing that
will give more bloom than verbena. Let IL
be trained on trellis, and give it all the sun
possible; the more sun, the more bloom. II
came originally from South America, and
was introduced iuto England about the yeal
1925. In its native home it grows on dry
hills, and one great fault in growing verbenas
with us is watering too copiously. Damp moi
only produces mildew but rots the roots, and
thus destroys the plant or produces disease.
Pinch the shoots to prevent its becoming too
rambling.
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Flooding the plants In water is, as rule,
not necessary until the third year after they
have been set out. The time for applying
the water will vary in different localities, but
it is safe rule to let it in as soon as cold
stops vegetation, and the vines commence to
assume a dull-red appearance. 1t should be
kept all winter deep enough to prevent the
plants from freezing, and not let off until say
about the first of May. Sometimes it is ad.
Miserable to food the meadows during sum.
mer drought, and then it is only necessary to
apply water enough to give the soil good
soaking Rural Neao Yorker.
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Undoubtedly there are growing in nursery
form Maine seedlings (which, in my opinion
are far better for farmers or any one to plant
in orchards than if grated or budded), suf-
ficient to supply all the real demands of the
people of this State, and it is hoped that the
Maine State Pathological Society will take
this subject into consideration at its winter
session, and get full report of all the nur-
sery stock in Maine. that farmers may know
where to get their supply.
In the light of past experience with west
ern trees, it would seem to be wisdom les
pecially in those who feel that they have
been sufficiently humbugged by western tree
peddlers) to patronize Maine nurserymen
otherwise they will be obliged to grub up
their nurseries and burn them in a few
years. believe, also, that 1t will be wisdom
for those who contemplate planting orchards
to 60 and see Maine nursery stock and Sc
lect and assist In taking up the trees, and see
to it that they get all the roots possible; also
get the nursery-man to prune them to three
well distributed branches, removing all SUI
perfuous twigs; thus leaving the tree in a
balanced condition to grow when planted,
and in condition to be grated or budded the
next year, or when they choose, two feet
from the body-under the first formation of
the reserved branches-with scons of their
own choice, adapted to the climate and soil,
costing about six cents per tree. Now if the
trees are planted on suitable land, annually
kept in garden culture, or sufficient to raise
70 bushels OF corn per acre, they will be likely
to succeed in growing good orchard, and
when in bearing condition will get fruit yearly,
If they look after the borers, caterpillars and
other noxious insects, and also judiciously
prune from year to year.-C0r. Maine Farmer,
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Fall Arrangement.



On and After Monday, Octoher
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--a- at 6.I5, S.45 9. M, 3.15 D. IN. arriv-
ing at Boston atiO.45 a. M, l.30, 500 D. N. Re-
turning, leave Boston at 730 a. M, 1890 g. 30 nm
arriving at Portland at 1910 $40 $40 D. m. Fror
Wells, North Berwick, salinon Rails
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Mepnebunh at 6.15, S.45 a. M, 315, $50, nm
Morning VratHh will ieaVs sGrUasbsuk
for Portland at T.20 a.. M The 315 D. m, rain
from Portland connects at Boston with The Shora
Line and the Boston & Albany Road for New YORK
arriving at New York early next morping This n
also the quickest route to the West ighrs.,ss
Tickets 20 all PoinHs South and ysess "a,
lowest rates. Trains en- Boston n Name mad
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EastPorI, Salals' St John and Halifax. Also, con,
meet WIN Grand Trunk trains at Grand Triisk Sta
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SIalns al transfer Station. All trains stop Al
Exetet zen minutes for refreshments at hrst class
su,.- JAS. T. FURBEK, Gen SUIT.
.. ID. STEVENS, Gen. agent, Portland
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Rfde-Bound Trees.

The practice ofsplitting the outer bark of
fruit trees perpendicularly has its friends and
enemies. We are of the latter. 1t deals with
the effect instead of the cause The camb-
ium layer is that from which a zone of
growth lin exogenous plants) is annually ad-
ded both to the sap-wood and the inner bark.
The outer bark is finally exfoliated or rent in
assures and sealed by the action of the
weather. Trees that are starved inc ease in
growth slowly, and the outer bark becomes
SO indurated as to resist, to certain extent,
their growth by retarding the upward passag
of the crude sap from the roots to the leaves,
and of the elaborated sap from the leaves
downward. But we think it may be cues
toned whether it is not well that its growth
should be retarded. Surely if it is true that
tree becomes "hide-bound" because it is
starved, increasing its size is not going to
remedy the evil, so to speak, to be fed by the
same amount of food.
We have seen many trees thus treated,
The stems would noticeably increase in size
the next year or so, but there was no cor
responding evidence of vigor apparent. In
most instances it has seemed to us their Wig
or was impaired. These perpendicular Sits,
moreover, affords convenient Judgements for
water or moisture, and insects seek such
crevices for shelter or for depositing their
eggs. 1t seems to Us that the natural remedy
for hide-bound trees is to enrich the earth as
far as the roots extend, and then the cambi-
um layer increased in quantity and in album
um that the outer bark must expand and the
stem soon becomes evenly and sufficiently de-
veloped.-Rurol Nelu Yorker.
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PORTLAND, BANGOR 4 MACHliS
STEAMBOAT GO.
For the PenObscOt and Machias.
FALL AND WINTER ARRANGEMENT.
ONE TRIP PER WEEK,

-xaerap The Steamer CITY OF
Il, Um n n RICHMOND. Capt Kilby, will
E[Iz2sszssf5 leav Railroad Wharf, foot ofState
sesa.-ssszzzEs<Szzka Street, every Thursday even
ing, at 40 O'Clock, for Rockland Camden, Belfast
Searsport, Bucksport Castine, Deer Isle, Sedgwick
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Passe: .ers and Freight forwarded to Bangor with
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- Railroad Wharf.
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PORTLAND &WOhCESTER LINZ
Portland & Rochester Is. e.
NOVEMBER I3. 1877.

YSSz=--sssss==-==z Trains will run as follows
Erw@sNu@ Leave Portland at ,. 80 q, IA,
2.30 and 6.2O p. m.
g.1O "A. IA. Accommodation for Worcester. Ar
rives at Rochester at 9.55 g. M, connecting with
Eastern and Boston q Maine Railroads.) At
Nashua AT a. M, Lowell 1918 D. m,
Boston LIS p. M, Aver junction 1910 D.
m, Fifchbur2 LIS p. M, and W OrcesfeF
ct 2.l0 p. m, connecting with trains South and
West.
$50 p. NJ. Steamboat Express through to
New London without change. Com
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Concord at Nashua tor Lowell and
BosfOn, at Aver junction for Fitch.
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Lime, at Worcester with Boston 8 ALBANY
Railroad tor New York, at. Putnam with
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$50 r. M. Local for Gorhann.
Trains leave Rochester at TOO, HOO a. m. Express)
arriving in Portland at 9.35 a m, and lilo D. m,
Leave GOrham 500 =. M, arriving at Portland sac
a. m.
Close connections made at Westbr00k Junction
with through trains of Me- Central r. K, and at
Portland Grand Trunk Junction. with through
trains of Grand Trunk r. r.
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Win'r good z 80 q Z 4
" best. 8 rs a 81
Fruit.
Almonds.
~

Layer, new Q 90 a 215
I. M. new. Q Is q 2 20
New Val.
% b. -. 8 a 81
Lemons Ybx 8 50 q 4 80
Oranges W b 8 so q A 90
Oranges Val. 8 so
OrangesJama $50
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