Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-01-22

TIC new srai taibc Hbh al buosc
prophets who spoke so cheerily of an open
winter have disappeared. Two severe snow
storms, which so blocked both wagon and
railroads as to suspend nearly all business
and travel for three days at a time, for each
storm. must be REGARDED as rather a success
full demonsti alton Of the forces of the North
And nov we are having a very gentle snow
fall with wind from the South, and there is
places are being covered with damp snow
and trodden down by teams, which keep NOV
| ing.
TIE Corn HARVEST.
| The fall was quite favorable for business,
esp Il y for the corn harvest and FEATURING
of tt,- corn ields. As almost nothing occurs
OF this sort in the Pine Tree State. it is proper
TO say that comparatively little corn fodder is
saved in this part OF Iowa in any other wav
than az above indicated When corn is suff
ciently dry for crbbing, one or two men to a
team Of two horses put into the crib fifty
bushels TO the man per day. the basis of the
count being always shelled corn. An inch in
height in he wazon-bei ten feet long and
three feet wide being allowed for a bushel
| The best corn huskers leave An ear OCCASION
ally. which With the fodder will winter stock
well. il a timber belt or straw stack is acces-
sible. | am sorry To say that probably more
than half the stock in this region has not
even this protection. The corn crop was not
good as appearances indicated, and the
market price here has not thus far xceeded
twenty-five cents per bushel, excep: an &C
casional load delivered at private crib
! The farmer wants a cent A bushel or more,
for shovelllng the corn into a crib At the
elevator he drives onto a dump where on
raising a small trap door in rear of his wagon,
! taking out the end gate of the wagon and
pulling the lever which works the dump the
tore part of his wagon is elevat,d and the
hind part correspondinglv depressed, and his
load is emptied in a twinkling. Then he re-
verses the lever and brings his wagon level
AID drives off down the incline and weighs
wagon. team and all again. and record is
made, and the matter as to this particular
twenty five or forty bushels is fixed
FRUIT TREES AND ORCHARDING.
The Fall was favorable to the ripening of
wood of fruit trees, raspberry canes grape
vines etc. 50 that wntering will be safely
done and fruiting next year, so far as this
contingency IL concerned, assured.
The slaughter of the splendid orchards of
this and adjoining regions has brought inn
mense, almost fabulous lpss, to the naturalist
"a we'll as the practical hortlculturist.
| The cause of this widespread DISSOLUTION is
a matter of deep interest. Scarcity and high
prices of fruit are at once apparent. As one
rides through the country special features Of
the disaster are manifest. different varieties
in these young orchards have been planted in
rows by Themselves, now "A row or two of
Wlnesap, then a few rows of Ben Davis and
so On. Now it ia observed that the one that
is taken and the other that is left i, not a
haphazard selection among individuals, but
cllling AS to varieties However as to some
varieties which may perhaps be called half
handy some are left Bur as IL the kinds that
uniformly stand these test winters there are
but very few.
The HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
OF the State, aided by the Agricultural caIleg
AZ Ames are through their AZ, nts Al home and
abroad and on the experimental grounds of
the college seeking among the varieties that
bear TIL, climate such as ars good bearers of
the best fruits. Cartons things come to
hgh, in these investigations, for example the
hard varetie. have in recently grown wood
larger amount of st lrch than the non hardy.
The most valued thu. far brought to the
font, are Russian, while native seedlings ard
crosses among the the hardy varieties for I'M
Drovcmeut in quality or quantity being
Effected, are looked upon with favor
The cause assigned for this gr at Destruction
of orchards by our best hor,lcuiturists is
sudden severe cold freezing weather. after an
open fell which has kept mutltudes of cells
distended and active which should have be-
come shrunken and dormant at the approach
of winter. BY this means many cells have
he,n burst and sap iermented and so death
has ensued 1t is moreover probable that
very warm weather in winter succeeded by
severe cold may be followed BY same results.
AGRICULTURE IN SOUTHERN AND WESTERN
A recent trip through the middle southern
part of this state has confirmed former oh.
servstions and impressions as to the agricul-
tural adaptation of that region.
The everywhere abundant and almost spon-
taneous product Is blue grass. 1t is held by
some that the famous blue grass gions of
Kentucky do not excel Southern Iowa
in the production of this most excellent
aud fat producing element of food for stock.
In one respect alone does the Kentucky blue
grass farm hold the advantage, and that is in
winter pasture, the snow in this State occa-
sonally being for time too stiff and deep
to admit of the pasture being reached by or
binary stock And it is not quite certain but
that the cooler temperature of the fv-
tormenting period may not make matters
even This with other conditions mark this
part Of the State for stock and dairy uses.
Thus far, as capital and intelligence have
been brought into use, the
PRopuCrs OF THE DAIRY
have been very gratifying, but this season,
owing to immense manufactures of butter
and cheese and their base limitations and
counterfeits, prices have ranged low and
the dairyman has had trouble to make buckle
aud strap meet And what wonder when
ancient stump horned steers hogs and mules,
though dead, may be put in successful COM
ue,ion with living cows. The possibilities
of the home products at the hands
of negligent Bridget in ratty cell
lar are bad, but it l. tar worse
when all the unciuous and adipose substances
kn -wn 10 natural history. which may be had
10 suitable quantities and at paying prices,
with nnspeaks able tilthiness and cloud smell
ling" odors made acceptable 10 the eve and OIL
factories by chemical aud mechanical msnip-
ulation, are transfer ned into ss elise re.em-
blance to good butter as Satan. the uudoubted
inspirer of such do:ngs. may sometimes be
TO an angel of light.
| As glucose is suspected in all svrups and
most candies, and thus the price of the pure
( article put below the paying point, so the
/ sixty million pounds of butter counterfelts
work against honesr dairy proiucts and the