Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-06-05
The FARMERS OUTLOOK
June |, 1889.
Reports on Farm Work, Seeding and
Planting, Live Stock, Daiyins
and Farm Wages
BY One Hundred and Fifty OF tho Jour
nails Special Reporters.

mails Special Reporters,
Few subjects are Of greater interest to 4
, State than the condition of its agricultural
industry. Upon this more of prosperity de.
Pends than upon any other occupation OF
pursuit. The appearance and prospects of
the crops of Nation are Of far greater con-
eern to its people than the condition Of its
mines OF the production Of its mills and
during the growing season no messages are
tclegrsphed over the country with greater
regularly or received with deeper interest
than those which give from time to time
the AREA condition and prospects Of
the food crops, The interest in
this subject which is manifested by the
people of the Nation is shared also by ,hos,
of our own State. Aud while We are fully
aware that Msine's output Of crops 10 not of
sufficient volumc To be OF great ratio TO, or
have much influence upon, the total food
products of the country at large yet the
condition and prospects of the crops of the
State is u matter of great interest 10 our own
citizens. for upon them depends large
H the welfare aud comfort of our
people and their success In the
Wv
tent and outlook of field operations among
Maine farmers at the opening of the season.
the amount of work done, the plans laid out
for good results at harvest, and the actual
epn1ItInu NJ tb.s agrtrultrV., ,t al.
''''''''" u '"' agriculture o' inc state inc
Journal forwarded u special circular 10 its
more than one hundred and fifty corr,,pon.
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"'s III '"' H'a'e' from "hoh To receive on
the first day of June, simultaneously answers
to the series of uucsti,ns ..nt ant The
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VIII pe seen from The following scheme Of
subjects
state Of farm work "a. compared with the ny.ras,
SEASONS
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Condition of NOV ing f,li. and pn.tur,. and gen
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snming period and pr"-pcct- ot the fruit crop.
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occurrcd wild nowcra nppearrd and sbrinu
birds returned much earlier than the
average. April warm and dry.
exceedingly favorable for all kinds Of farm
work Once during the month the themou-
eter went into the eighties Several thunder
showers occurred in MAJ. aud on the llth,
the heat was 20 oppressive, being ~ deg,
that a case of death from sunstrokc occurred.
The entire month, I'LL the very last days, was
advantageous for work. ON the 9th, 2jth,
2Gth and 27th heavy frOsts occurred in Aroos-
took, Somerset, Penobscot Cumberland.
kcnncbec, Franklin AMI York counties. in
some instances doing much damage to crops,
which ii was necessary To replant in many
cases. ON the 2sth, rain fell all Jny in abun-
dance, interrupting late planting and other
farm work. The month was one Of eI-
treme-, but its close saw farming operations
farther advanced in this State than has been
known in any year for the past twenty years.
Al correspondents say the season was full
" two weeks earlier, by actual dates, than
the average of years, aud considering the
large amount Of farm work tha, had to be
done, left over from fall, the condition Of
farm work was really three weeks In advance
,f the spring Of 1883. A few extracts from
replies are gwen:
Livermore Falls, old residents tell us
they never saw the grasses so forward in
NAV AS at the present date Many pieces Of
corn. potatoes and beans are now May ~ -
out Of the ytound and growing finely Free