Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-09-19

famine there was In MAINE L would
have brought some with me. The
stone crop this year in Maine will be
very great. II they do not crack open
during the dry weather there will be
great many. The stone-bruise is also
looking unusually we'll for this season
of the year, and chillblains were in
full bloom when / was there.
In the neigbhorhood of Pittsfield the
country seems to run largely to cold
water and chattel mortgages. Some
think that rum has always kept Maine
back, but claim that 1t has been wet
feet. The agricultural resources of
Pittsfeld and vicinity are not great,
the principal exports being spruce
gum and Christmas trees. Here also
the huckleberry hath her home. But
the country seems to run largely to
Christmas trees. They were not yet
in bloom when l visited the state, so
1t was too early to gather popcorn
balls and Christmas presents.
Here. near Pittstield, is the BIRTH
place of the only original worthless
dried apple pie with which we gener-
ally insult our gastric economy when
We lunch along the railroad. These
pies. when properly Kindred and
rivited, if fitted out with the Yale
time locks, make the best fire and
burglar proof worthless pies of com-
merce. They take the place of civil
war, and as promoter of intestine
strife they have no equal. The farms
of Maine are fenced in with stone
walls. 1 do not know why this is done,
for 1 did not see anything on these
farms that any one would naturally
yearn to carry away with him. l saw
some sheep in one of these enclosures.
Their steel pointed bills were lying on
the walls near them, and they were
resting their jaws in the crisp frosty
morning air. In another enclosure
farmer was planting clover seed with
a hypodermic syringe, and covering it
with a mustard plaster. He said that
last year his clover was a complete
failure because his mustard plasters
were no good. He had tried to save
money by using secondhand mustard
plasters, and of course the clover
seed, missing the warm stimulus, neg
lected to rally, and the crop was
failure.
Here may be noticed the canvas
back moose and strong antipathy to
good rum. do not wonder that the
people of Maine are hostile to rum
If they Judge all rum by Maine rum.
The moose is one of most gamey of
the finny tribe. He is caught in the
fall of the year with a double barrel
oh nd . ~. ~ Chnno Ia
does not bite unless irritated, but little
boys should not 60 near the female
moose while she is on her nest. The
masculine moose wears a hair lip and
a hat-rack on his head, to which is at
tached placard, on which is printed:
PLEASE KEEP OFF THE GRASS.
This shows that the moose is hui
mOrist.
Near Pea Cove l saw n strange
sight. A farmer was rowing around
his cranberry orchard In skif. l
stood upon a stone wall and watched
him for some time, because l am
greatly interested in farming and
dearly love to watch any one else who
may be engaged in manual labor. 1t
was long time before / could
make out what he was doing. At last,
however. / figured it out, and was
very much surprised, indeed, for l
had never seen horticulture carried on
to that extent, and, as Mr.. Sayward
would remark, II thought he was car
rying that thing too far" Many will
doubt my word, and would not have
believed 1t myself if anyone else had
told me. But the man was actually
picking cranberries out of his submerg-
ed orchard with a stOmach-pump. 1
have one of the cranberries at home
now.-BiU Nye, in the Boston Globe.