The Portland daily press., 1885-01-09
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IN motion the sails of commerce and the wheels
OF the manufacturer, and is primarily the
source OF general property, but we find there ID
mutual compensation in a friendly relation
snip. And how shall this great industry be
advanced Recent railroad facilities, and the
Introduction Of many new and profitable in
dnstnes offer enlarged inducements to the
Immigrant to speedily occupy the great agri-
cultural region Of north eastern Maine. In
our extensive sea coast, broad domain and
rushing rivers we have all the resources for
sustaining vast population, and there should
be no lack of proper legislation to stimulate and
protect individual effort by the dissemination
OF accurate information and statistics What
additional legislation is necessary to promote
general agriculture and to facilitate the settle
ment OF the wilderness portion Of ouf State, is
wholly within your power to determine.
Statistics show that our State is especially
adapted to the three leading branches Of farm
ing, stock raising, dairying and fruit growing.
and the active prosecution of these branches
should be stimulated by the favorable condi-
tons by which we are surrounded. Associated
capital by our farmers in several industries as
dairying manufacture of potato starch, can
ming of vegetables and other productions of the
farm, has wonderfully increased the aggregate
OF cash receipts from eur agricultural resources.
- oPPCoAo All ttaS Adob C6usuS lUdL we received
credit Cor making over 100000 lbs. of
butter, the production of which is estimated to
have increased the present year to over
2O,0O0,O00 lbs, worth at least 100000 and
equal to the value of our ship
ping in 1879. Special kinds of farm
should receive special attention in order to Sc
cure larger profits and suitable encouragement,
and it should be the aim of all who have the
welfare of the State in view, to encourage and
stimulate these interests in every legitimate
way, and if need be, to the extent Of the en-
actment of laws and the appropriation Of
public money, Manufacturing and trade have
been specially protected by the laws of the ma
ton, and the great public have willingly con-
tributed, through the revenue department
vast sums of money for their direct protection.
Agriculture. the PRIME source of wealth, has
struggled comparatively alone, and has been
content in making humble demands, while it
has superior claims. would recommend the
continuation of all the usual appropriations
for the advancement of agriculture.
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTAL STATION.
The development of progressive agriculture
is fastened by experimental work 1t cannot
be conducted successfully by the voluntary eff
forts of our farmers, for they do not possess the
ordinary means and appliances for experiment
AAANNoNASouGOA' Liz pSCullldT1 DuTuen winch
becomes necessary to cover the field and the
requirements of agricultural experiments, Is
too large for any one industry, The best and
most economical way to feed and clothe the
public, interests every citizen, and is worthy of
your careful consideration. The claim of the
public, rather than that of the personal
farmer as an economic question, is involved
in the result. Experimental work per-
formed at public expense, and made the
common property of all, is reasonable and
vastly more economical. The State, as well as
the farmers, needs an experimental station.
which the people asked for two years ago. |
hope 1t may be found practicable to unite it
with what is being accomplished on the farm
OF the State college. We need at Orono a
model farm, where may be represented the best
breeds OF mich and beef cattle and the best
varieties and kinds of sheep and swine. There
should be, in reasonable way, every kind of
machinery and farm tools for preparing the
soil and doing all that is necessary, in profit
able manner, to bring the largest crops into
the harvest home. The relative value of
different foods for cattle, and how prepared, is
an interesting question. There are expert
mental stations in New York, North Carolina.
New Jersey and other States, but the soil and
the productions of every State are not
the same We desire the ANALYSIS
of our own soil; we need ex-
periments on the planting, culture and har-
vesting of the productions of this northern
latitude, and careful tabulation of the results
for public distribution. Such a farm should
be an agricultural blackboard, wherein NAV be
written, and exempliAed by practice the
requirements and results of scientific farming.
The final result of experimental agriculture,
when generally understood, is valuable and
nrOtifahln knOxvlpdro for "a IL al
State; and also when practiced and utilized on
the farm becomes one of the sources of public
wealth. The adulteration of the commercial
fertilizers, now so largely used, demands a
most rigid inspection. The farmer needs the
protection of law to escape fraud and IMPOSE
ton which has been successfully practiced,
and the ready means to detect these nefarious
practices is one of the purposes of the expert
mental station. The cash paid annually bv our
farmers for fertilizers has already reached
the sum Of $250,000. A suitable revenue
should be collected by the State from manu-
facturers and dealers in fertilizers to defray
part at lest of the cost of inspection. I would
call your attention to the many petitions of
our farmers for an experimental station, and
trust the matter will receive your special con-
sideration and favorable action.
would also call your attention to the vast
stock interests Of the State which are increas-
ing very rapidly, and ask your careful consid-
Grafton of our laws in order that every protec-
uon shall be given against the serious conse-
quences that would follow the introduction of
contagious cattle diseases which have been SO
destructive in other States. The appointment
OF a State veterinary surgeon, and revision of
the laws prescribing the duties of cattle com
mlssioners, and charging their powers, is
IS worthy of your consideration.
Associated efforts in dairying and in the
growing OF fruit have been productive of great
advantages to our farmers. The State Dairy
mans association and the State Pathological
society are valuable means for the dissemina-
ton of knowledge. Active work often ceases
for the lack Of encouragement. The magnitude
OF these interests demands that there should be
a sufficient appropriation to pay the necessary
expenses of such valuable organizations.
INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING DEVELOPMENT.
During the past two years investigations
have been made to ascertain the relative posi-
uon OF Maine as manufacturing and agri-
cultural State. These inquiries show that
Name during the last twenty fyears compares
more tavorably with other States as to manu-
featuring than in respect to population. for,
while she has fallen during this period from the
twenty second to the twenty seventh
position among the States in respect to popu
latlon, she has only fallen from the thirteenth
to the fifteenth in respect to her manufactured |
products. The great West has been calling
for the better classes of people from the east
en States to develop her boundless
resources, and Maine has responded |
literally. But when we consider that the |
vast tide OF foreign immigration has been the |
chief source of increase OF population OF the |
States that have gone ahead of Maine, and |
thereby created the great Western Empire, |
We nave reason to congratulate the old Pine |
Tree State on the stability of its inhabitants. |
and their successful endeayors to develop the |
resources OF their own State. To better illus
trate Names position in the roll of States the |
Ionowlng table is introduced. which will show |
the changes that have occurred ia population |
and manufacturing during the past four de- |
cades:
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