The Republican journal., 1885-10-29
Outdoor Observations

Outdoor Observations
We hear of Lincolnville farmer who has gath.
cred 900 bushels of apples, mostly Baldwins
The returns on big apples continue to come in.
1t has certainly been abundanty demonstrated that
Waldo county is "some pumpkins" on apples.
Six thousand barrels of American apples were
sold in Liverpool, England Oct. 10Th. Baldwins
brought Ii to is shillings Greetings 10 to IL shil
lings. An English shilling is about Is cents.
That Northport chicken, of which mention was
made recently, Matched out brood of chickens
some two weeks ago. She only broke the shell her
self last April, has laid litter of eggs and is
proud mother. Until the back towns can make
better report this Northport chicken will stand at
the head
Waldo county has always been noted for fine
honey, and recent reports from the various towns
indicate an increased production. There is no
doubt but that with proper care and management
keeping is very profitable, and we are glad to
know that many,of our intelligent farmers are max
ing success of agriculture and thus adding to the
marketable products of the county.
What to do with the apples this year Is a problem
with many. There is no money in turning them
into cider, and while some make a fair profit by
the manufacture of vinegar others are unsuccess-
full. The remedy would seem to be to get rid of
what are known cider apples and graft or set
out the standard varieties, which are always sale
able at some price and often pay handsomely.
There will beapples enough for cider by taking the
small fruit rejected in packing for market.
MIR. Freeman who drives the accommodation stage
between Camden and Belfast has marketed the
past season hundreds, might almost say thous-
ands, of quarts of berries at the ends of his route.
He began with strawberries and ended with buckle
berries the shipments extending owe; nearly three
months. This has been an accommodation to people
along the road who had berries 20 sell, well as
those in Belfast and Camden VINO wanted to buy.
The Springfield, Mass, Republican has published
fun reports of the fall harvest in Western Massa-
chusetts, Northern Connecticut Vermont ana New
Hampshire, 81 which the following is summary:
Less tobacco has been raised this year, but the
crop is universally of excellent quality. The hay
crop is much larger than last year. Potatoes
hardly up to the average mark. Corn is without
exception unusually good crop and other grains
are mainly satisfactory The fruit yield is very
large and in many places uneXampled New Y Ork
and Boston agents bought in Western MassaChu-
sets alone $4,000 barrels of apples for ship.
ment to Europe at an average price of 81 per
barrel, in many cases sending their own men to
orchard the fruit There is corner in the barrel
market and farmers are using hogshead5 for pack
ing their own fruit.
A few years ago resident of this city bought a
avenue 1t thickly s.rewn with stones as a
Christmas pudding is with plums, and it looked as
though their removal would be an almost endless
task or cost mint of money. The buyer soon
went to work, however, and almost single handed,
with the aid of a horse, he removed the stones
from plot of several acres, broke up the ground,
and this year raised fine crops Of potatoes, corn
and beans. Now the work on another section is
progressing, and as neighbor remarked when
riding by, sin few years that field will cut two
tons ofhay to the acre" 1t is excellent ilustra
ton of what one man do by steady and intei-
gently directed labor.
In the last issue of the Maine Farmer Mr. ". p.
Anterior, of Granite Hall Farm, Hallowell, pays a
personal tribute to Prof. J. Perley, of Unity We
quote what Mr.. Atherton says of one of our Waldo
county farms:
cannot, in an article like this, undertake to give
any description of Mr. Perey'5 farm or Its man
agement it will be sufficient to say that the loca
tion is good, the buildings ample and well arrang-
Ell both for convenience and comfort, and that the
manipulation of the farm aud its work is in good
hands, that of his MIR. Perley showed me one
field of IS acres, where great amount of work
had been done in years past in clearing, draining
and in the sinking of an Old stone WALL SO that now
the whole presents an unbroken surface; and
other neld of fifty acres all good tillage land free
from stone and all in good heart, the soil of which
is mostly rich clay loan mixed with sand. In
this field was fine piece of corn of an acre and a
half, which showed remarkably clean culture, the
credit of which belongs in a great measure to Mr.,
Perley, ST., an early riser and persistent work
er. His son now reports that the crop of corn is
the best for years, and that he has harvested about
100 bushels of potatoes from between four and five
acres; good yield certainly.
Mr.. Grant Aliens new novel, "Babyo n," con-
tains the following description OF a farm house in
New York State, and the london Saturday Review
doubtful authority in this case-says that "who-
ever has travelled in of the agricultural dis
tricts of the United States recognize the truth
Of the description"
The homestead Itself, an Imprinted frame house,
consisting of planed planks set carelessly.
above the other on upright beams, stood In
weedy yard, surrounded by n raw looking paling,
and unbeautilied by single tree, creeper shrub.
bush or scented flower. A square house, planted
naked in the exact centre OF square yard, DIES
olate and lonely, though such an idea as that of
beauty had never entered into the human heart In
front, the long, straight, township road ran inden
itely, as far the eye could reach in either direc
ton, beginning at the horizon on the north and
ending at the horizon on the south, but leading
where IN particular that any one ever heard Of
meanwhile, unless it were to Muddy Greek depot
pronounced deepo), on the Rome, W atertown and
OgdeDsburg railroad.
That would not be accepted a correct dcsclip
ton Of the average Maine farm house, by any
who has travelled through the State and seen the
homes of our people. And we also doubt the truth
of the description to New York, for Mr.. Allen
makes all the houses of this description. He says;
At considerable intervals along its course a new
but congenitally shabby gate opened here and
there INTO another Dare square yard, and gave &C
cess to another bare square frame house of I'M
painted pine panks. In the banks between these
cases of unvarnshed ugliness the road, instead of
being bordered by green trees and smiling hedge
rows pursued its gaunt way, unrcjoicing, between
open fields or long and hdeous snake fences.