Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-11-15

Yes sir. We know every milkman just
the same as You know every printer in the
city There are just an even thirty men who
haul mix into Augusta every morning
We'll, how many cows do these farmers
keep On an average"
That would be hard telling You
ace good many of these farmers
buy more OF less milk of their neighbors;
and although they may not keep more than
I've or six cows Of their own, they buy a.
couple of gallons of Jones every morning,
and one Of Mrs. Judkins. and 80 on, you see.
Would the average be fourteenF
oh No. Nine or ten would be bout an
average gurss, take 1t by and large.
mean tat th.y own themselves. Probably
they zach btng on an average the milk of
fourteen coe. possibly fifteen but guess
not.
who ia the largest milk man; | mean
who keeps the most cows" asked the re-
porter.
ooh Ben Fisher he's the king pin in the
mix business in augusta Why Ben must
hayes many as twenty five or twenty SIX
SOW. Aud Ben's river too, tell ye.
"Ilon much mix do YOU suppose it takes
for the supply of the c'ty single day
We'll nov yon see thats something you
cant exactly tell about I've reckoned on
ia goo deal You see in the first place,
lnrs Vi peopi" $3.50 toxin Keep their own cows
AMI not oni, that they sell some to their
ntighh0t- NoN- iher Mrs iophno'ter,
they kv,p t~p splendid Jerseys. you see and
sell NJ least four quarts day just tor tun
you Snos Got money euough, but they
send the milk over to Mira wilkins and Miss
Harmon, and some of their tony n"Ighoors
hy the boys every morning. It's sort or
ari'tocrafia milk you see. We'll then thers
a irw iois' Who keep three or four cows in
town as business. and loti OF nice families
srep their op" pet cow. SO its hard coming
sit
WI suppose you Sno" no" "ueh
outside m"E ~ brought IN every morning
don you
IS 70 That ia easy calculaun, reckon
from, Vic, Imam, .h.,t my nxncows and
a. tn sbo'. milkmen. that augusta people
buy hny SIR. near on to twenty-five hum
drsl quarts If milk day. wouldn't think it.
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n-nlk tl.. ,,,r ,onnl inst think q What. -
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a, 40 Won 20 an the east side and do east
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Tbey'l ;u.t 40 a.. thew please same A. every
bnI, ella. loe. .TvouI,ln't work sir
And tho Journal man started of for the
.t,,n, mia ,n find ont how man, poprds of
steam c,,.fi be- made from sixteen bushels of
thor,u,t,l, lr,.I MITCH. nine sawdust.
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