Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-09-09
Farm Notes.

The annual consumption Of commercial
fertilizers by the farmers of the United
States, is estimated by Prof. Wyatt, in his
treatise on Modern High Farming" just
published, to exceed 10000 tors.
Mr.. J. w. Thompson of Canton, our
authority on Maine horse history, has one
hundred pages of his second volume on
"Mane Horses" already printed. The first
volume was published twelve years ago.
One of the largest and most productive
plum orchards in the State is that of Mr..
r. S. Bracket of Limington 1t COM
prises about one and half acres and is
well stocked with the leading and most
popular sorts of plums, the Lombard be-
ing one OF the most esteemed. His mar
ket is Boston, and he has been shipping
them since the first of August, every few
days. Mr.. Bracket is fortunate in having
so good market, and obtains prices that
give him a handsome income frcm his
acre and a half orchard.
DR.. c. G. Miller of Marengo, H., who
has made the production of honey bees his
sole business for twenty-five years. and
has just published volume detailing his
experiences in the same, says his object
in breeding bees is to get race that are
good honey gatherers, good winterers,
not cross, and not given to much swarm
ing There is great difference in the
disposition of bees in different colonies,
and when he has found very cross swarm
he has often been obliged to kill the queen
and not breed from her
Mrs. II. G.. Fairbanks of North Mon
mouth, is most genial lover of fruits
and flowers, and has one of the largest
and finest flower gardens in town. now
a profusion of bloom. In her ward is also
growing an apple tree which produces
seven different kinds of fruit-ths tree
having been planted by Mrs Fairbanks.
and we believe grated, as well-when
she was young girl of sixteen Most
worthily and rightfully does Mrs. Fair
banks fill the office of Pomona in the
Kennebec county Grange.
1t is noticeable that in a single day last
week the butter market made general
advance of &c per pound on all grades of
choice creamery aud private dairy make
This advance would not have been posi-
BILE had the oleomargarne bill not
become law. So the legitimate dairy
interest. which even in Maine has been
hard pushed in consequence OF the rivalry
OF bogus butter. feels relief from Ma
tional Legislation which amounts to a good
margin of profit over old prices.
Those who make study of the finan
cial situation of the country from day to
day as evinced by the prices of stocks at
the Boston and New York Exchange
Boards. say that while it was verv re-
markable that the terrible calamity which
so recently befell Charleston, S. C.. pro.
duced no effect whatever, the frosts
throughout the South and West on the
nights of Sept. and 2, caused depres-
sion in stocks of from 2! to 3 per cent.
In the former case it was evident that the
people have confidence in the fixed laws
of nature; in the latter that when a loss
to agricultural crops occur, depression
in finances always follows It is another
proof that agricultural success insures
national prosperity"
| The fact has become well known that
within the past five years India has be-
come an important competitor in the Eng
! ish wheat market with the empire of
Russia and the United States. India this
/ year. according to the monthly report of
the Department of Agriculture of the
United States tor August. has a total of
twenty six millions of acres OF land in
wheat. The output of wheat in that
country is reckoned by tons; and the i'm
ports of wheat into the British Isles, from
/ the United States. Russia and India. for
stated periods in 1885 and 1886 was as
! follows torthe year ending Dec. 81, 1885.
from Russia, 599,317 tons; from India,
+ COS, 09S tons, from the United States, l.
| 2l3,935 tons. For the three months of the
year 1886, ending with March 31st, from
Russia, 60,005 tons; from India, 162, ITO
tons; from the United States. l76. 46I
tons. So it will be seen from the above
figures that our great country still retains
its supremacy as the "grainery of the
world