Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-11
Agricultural Items.

Plenro-pnenmonia has broken ont in New
| York and Pennsylvania.
The winter throughout Germany and Eng
land has been very mild.
Within few miles of Los Angeles. Cal
| there are 256, l35 orange trees
J. r. Bodwell of Hallowcll is shipping his
turnips to Boston. lie has got about 1900
bushels.
The amount of wheat and corn annually
raised in the United States has more than
quadrupled since 1870
Nate Moore of Parkman. Ohio. made ffty
pounds of nice maple sugar the last week of
December. which sold for 35 cents a pound
The depression in English agriculture is
very marked. In the county of Stafford
shire alone, ii 900 acres are tenantless
The high price. of peanuts, owing to short
crops. has attracted two carloads to this mar
ket from California.
Apples have recently taken start and good
No. Baldwins row sell quickly for 81. 90
per barrel
The yield of wheat throughout the Union
is9l bushels per capita. while the consump-
tion amounts to only five bushels to each
person.
One of the most extensive farmers in this
county is Mr.. Edward Lyon of Manchester.
His farm comprises some 800 acres of land
| and he keeps 10 head of cattle, besides other
stock.
Huge Spanish onions are on sale in New
York city at eight cents pound. They take
| the place of Bermuda onions and are consider
ed finer in favor. Some specimens in mar
ket weigh two and half pounds each though
the average weight is pound.
| Within the memory of. the present genera
| zion it has been asserted that Maine could not
produce apples except as exotics. vet today
she produces more than IS varieties. many of
them the finest in the world for flavor. long
keeping and beauty.
| w. Clark Of East Rumford. Me. writes
The first year my cows paid me $50 each
lecond year $50; third year $50; fourth wear
S75, and the fifth or last year nearly SsI.
| When get my cows to average 300 pounds
of butter each, | shall be better pleased than
am now.
| Imported potatoes and cabbages have been
| arriving in large quantities for months The
prices of Irish turnips and potatoes are lower
than those asked for the home product The
! Irish turnips are immense in size. and when
cooked are not stringy. They are tetter than
the turnips brought here from Canada. and
command higher price.
! A series of Maine Horse Breeders Trotting
Stakes have been established. open to all
colts or fllies bred or owned in Maine.
These consist of the Annual Nursery Stakes
for twO-year-old colts and FLIES, foss of
1880. mile heats, two in three, to harness.
S25 dollars entrance, FIVE dollars to accom-
pany the nomination, ten more to be paid
June l. 1882, and the balance to be paid Aug
/ 1852. Two-thirds of the stake goes to the
winning colt. two-thirds of the remainder to
the second colt in the race, and the balance
to the one getting the third place, ten or
more subscribers necessary to fill. Stakes
Annual Breeders Stakes for colts and fllies
three years old or under, best three in FIVE
to harness, entrance and conditions same AZ
Nursery Stakes. The third is called Maine
Trotting Stakes for colts and filIies four
years old and under, mile heats, best three
in fire. entrance and conditions same az in
the two previous. The races are to be trotted
strictly according to rules of the National
Trotting Association, and will take place
either at Bath, Lewiston or Portland some
time during the last of August or first Of
September. 1852