Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-07-16
Farm Notes.

village. There are not many Maine IarlileTs
outside of Aroostook who would be cramp-
ed for barn room with two such barns as
Mr.. Hayard now has, but he finds they do
not furnish him storage room for the hay
and grain crop he has this year.
The Dixmont cheese factory is doing an
excellent business this summer. They are
receiving about 1900 pounds of milk daily
from which the best of cheese is manufac-
tured. A market is found for much Of it
in this city.
The committee of the Penobscot
Farmers Club. who have been in CORE
spondence with Mr.. Bradford, of the Turner
creamery in relation to the establishment
of a creamery in this city, are making
very satisfactory progress, and immediate
ly after haying a meeting will be called to
take action upon the matter. The COM
mittee have learned that within radius
of five miles the milk of 1900 cows can be
had, and that the number can be increased,
if desired, to 5000. The territory has
been mapped out into five routes, giving
each collector distance of fifteen or
twenty miles for his daily work. The
committee are much pleased with the
prospect and confident Of the early estab-
lishment of a creamery here.
A well-known Harrison lady and sue
cessful school teacher, nee Rosa Chute,
and her husband, Mr.. Frank p. johnson,
are doing a big business at their great
dairy farm in Gorham, Maine, close to
Gorham village. The farm is run by
Henry and Frank =. johnson, and Mrs.
johnson has charge of the dairy. This
year they have from Is to 25 acres planted
with sweet corn; keep so cows, of high
grade Jersey and Holstein blood to which
they feed ensilage from four silOs) in
winter, and make butter altogether, they
having lately sold their milk route. They
have modern and elaborate machinery,
including steam engine, by which they
do the churning, cut the ensiage and
thresh for their neighbOrs yearly from
$500 to 5000 bushels of grain. Six
horses are worked on the farm. This is
known as '''rhe Village Farm and is a
model of its kind-well worth inspecting.
Mr.. Edward Capen of Eastport has kept
daily record of the quantity of milk from
his Holstein Friesian COW "Topsy," for
the past month. The COW was MIXED
| three times day and the milk measured
in quarts. He bought the COW this spring
| in Massachusetts,, and furnishes the fol
| lowing description of her; She is a high
grade Holstcin Friesisn (3l-32) sire, 10th
| Texeller. the celebrated butter Stock; was
six-years old in May. She is one of the
herd of eight cows (high grade) that
took the first prize at the New England
Fair last August. The average daily
yield of milk during the month of June
was % 1890 quarts. The first three days
of the month the record gives % -, "A
and % quarts. The last three days, 2s
81, 20 IL and 30 quarts. She was MIXED
regularly three times Il day.
At the meeting of those interested in
the establishment of a creamery in Rock
land, held at the courthouse last week,
Messrs. kimball, Sylvester and Timer,
the committee, reported favorably to the
enterprise, having examined the matter
thoroughly and visited places where
creameries were in operation and observed
the methods used there. They recon-
mended that a committee be appointed to
| canvas this section, and when enough pro-
| ducers are pledged to the scheme to en-
sure the proposed creamery, the cream
from 800 cows, a cooperative system is
generally preferable, in an enterprise of
this kind, to having it controlled by a cor
poration or individuals. A committee
was appointed in accordance with the
recommendation, as follows: Obadiah
Gardner, Elkanah Spear. ROckland :
George Campbell, +. W. Morse,
ThomastOn; c. A. Sylvester, w. j. Rob-
bins, Camden; J. +. Mccarthy, J. l.. Fey
Ter, South ThomastOn; Sylvanus Robin
son, Edward Graves, st. George; Minoi
TOlman, Isaac Libby, Warren. We I'M
derstand that the committee are having
good success, and that it is probable that
a creamery will soon be established that
will handle the cream from about 1000
cows.
The Maine State cattle commissioners
have found ten cases of CHAMBERS and far
Gin within the last two weeks. Five of
these cases were found in the city of Port
land, one in Stroudwater village, one in
Bangor, one at East Laswell one at Bridge
water. and one at Pressure Isle. All but
two of them were brought into Maine from
out of the State. Two came from Canada.
one from Massachusetts, one from New
Hampshire. Two of them were brOncOs,
one came from the Provinces and one
came from the West. Only two of them,
it will be seen, were raised in Maine. and
shows that if CHAMBERS were not imported
into the State, our own horses would be
comparatively from it. The commission
ers are doing good work in freeing the
state from TINS dangerous class of animals.
DR.. Bailey, State veterinary surgeon, says
no contagious disease exists among cattle,
and but one case has been found since
Jan. lst, 1888.
The farmers of Rockland complain of
the depredations of cut worms which bid
fair to ruin certain kinds of crops. One
farmer reports 1900 cabbage plants des-
troyed by the pests in one field in twenty
four hours.