Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-07-28
Farm Notes.

The cheese factory at West Pembroke
is now consuming 200O pounds of milk,
making $50 pounds of cheese daily. an
increase of 300 pounds in the daily re-
reiptS, since it first commenced operations
five weeks ago.
Five tons of raspberries We're taken by
the American Express Company from st.
John to Boston, Tuesday night last.
These berries are just beginning to appear
in good quantities and will tiud ready
market wherever they 90. The crop will
not he as large this year as last, but "A
fair amount will be obtained. Large
quantities are sent from the Provinces
and this part of the State to Boston during
the season, and are used in the manufac-
ture of iellies and jams.
The West Somerset Agricultural Society
have about completed the repairs on their
grounds near North Arson village. The
fence has been entirely rebuilt, several
new box stalls sxl0 feet have been built.
the track newly graded, and other i'm
provements made. 1t is intended to have
a grand opening horse trot about the 23d
and 2ith of August, when liberal purses
will be Suffered, and large number of
the fastest horses in this section of the
state are expected to compete for the
prizes.
Geo II. Bailey, veterinary surgeon.
who has recently visited .Aroostook on
professional trip, concludes a letter to the
Lewiston journal as follows: II have
returned home, prouder than ever of my
native State, and can truly say, like the
Queen IF Sheba. that the half had never
been told me. Having now visited every
county in Maine, | most unhcsitatinglv
say that from an agricultural and pros
pective standpoint, ArooStook, like Ben
Adhem's name, leads all the rest
The butter factory in Fort Fairfield is
meeting with excellent success. Mr..
Winslow, the proprietor, is extending his
circuit as fast as possible. He has teams
in Presque Isle and Carbon gathering
cream and hauling to the depots He has
three teams making a circuit of from fiji
teen to twenty miles each. Something
over $4,000 lbs. of butter has been made
up to the present time. The butter is of
excellent quality. This is an industry
that will be great benefit to the farmers
generally. Farms will be better and
wives relieved of much hard labor, and
ready pay will be much more satisfactory
than the usual method of waiting until
late in the autumn to sell their butter
In looking over the farm of Hon. J. II. |
Ramsdell, of Atkinson few DAYS ago, we
noticed Il field of more than 10 acres of
very nice grass, also three acres of corn, |
a good, If not better, than any saw in
hennebec; also Il very handsome field of
oats. Mr.. Rams,lell retired from business
of moor haalth hnt az L. "" az. o,iu'
tend his L,rro AMI ,,alnnii,, f.,, 'iI ~ ~
form ma tho,t lie bn,lth ,,,,,'t. &c.,. -.
Mr. y has tun v,Iu,LIa o,,Its s,,,',..
one NV tittIetiold.. tJ,.o,,.,tn - II =
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couId nor ha honr,t fnr sion ~.
rota,,,js ,lLxerrer
Cheese factories in this State are doing
4 paying business this season. The new !
factory at Carroll, in this county. has
patronage of thirty hundred pounds of
baYa s p ~. IT, I'" a'o.n speelnehS we
m,nding rho b;ybost nraiG, w. ,t.o Dp'n-
The nresant nrira i. fon,toon on,t, a.
R,rnes' factdry .t ua,itn, - NJ; n,
ia hetween t;ftv and sixty h,,,,1roi '"S up
Ter dav. A now nl,nt in inna,,s ~.
ing in upwar(ls of SEVENTY bnna,raI ,,5,, U,'t
a ,iav. Winthron Leeds and rnrnar f,n
tories are also heinc vol nat,oni1ad
PROFESSOR W II. Jordan. of the Expert |
'heh' station mas already large number
OF important experiments under way and |
the results VIII soon be published. The
ieftiIiAeI examinations are now completed /
ahd me nu'letin VIII be issued at once.
rroI' Jordah Is experimenting with the
Various breeds OF cows,-short horns,
hoistelns, Ayreshires and Jerseys. An