The Portland daily press., 1889-07-16

poor nay weather: Only two good days,
Saturday and Sunday. Although there has
very little rain and grain and hoed crops are
needing 1t very much.
Cumberland Centre.
CONDITION OF THE CROPS.
The acreage of sweet corn in this vicinity
is comparatively SMALL: and that that did
not have to be planted over is, regarding
weather and all else, looking we'll.
The apple crop in this vicinity will to all
appearances be rather light, although some
orchards may have a fair crop yet there will
not be the yield of last year;
:, oats and other grains are looking well and
there will be the average crop. The
weather OF the past week has kept the farm
ers from doing much haying but with good
weather this week they will give it a hard
one. The crop although so very large will
average r on the whole with that Of last year.
last class at the Maine Medical School, left
last Friday for Alabama, in which State he
intends to settle.
Mr.. William Colby and family are board.
Ing at Mrs. III. b. Merrilps.
j. Fl: True, Portland, will occupy the house
on the Drown place during the summer
months,
Scarboro.
The body of the whale at Higgins'sI Beach,
the odor from which was both annoying and
alarming to the cottagers and campers there
was disposed of by the residents In salts
factory and original manner. In the first
place they built fire around the carcass
and kept 1T going two days and most of two
nights. by this time the flesh was pretty
well burned, but still the bones were left.
The next thing they did was to get a cross
cut saw and saw the skeleton up into sec
tions and then to hire pair of horses. haul
them in so deep hole that the happy family
OF summer visitors at this popular resort
shall never more be plagued by odOrs pro-
ceeding from it. There is said to have been
picturesque scenes during the cremation and
burial, but the artist with his camera was
not there and the operation must be i'm
agined. The whale was small one-but 26
feet long.
North harpsWeII.
Hay is very good this year if it can be
housed In good condition. Farmers are
somewhat discouraged over the continued
dun weather. Grass won't dry sufficiently
to be hauled into the barn, but the ground Is
getting dry and wells are low. Some farm
ers in this vicinity commenced haying June
"a, expecting to be done about July 4, but as
yet they are not half through. Hay tedders
nave tuduo thtlr appearance LOT the Hr5C
time this season. Several would have them
but the supply is short at the manufactures.
The potato rust has made its appearance
though not very bad as yet, the crop prom
Uses we'll, potato bugs have not been quite as
in the past.
Fred Alexander is at home from Poland,
where he has been at work on a large hotel.
He will build stable for /. Merriman, End
after haying. Otis Campbell is also at home
from the same place. He is now helping his
father hay.
kezar falls.
The Pillsbury Bros Summer boarding
house is full as is also the Banks House. The
guests are principally from Boston.
Nathaniel Currier, ESQ.,, principal of the
Piper school, has gone to visit his mother for
few weeks at her home in Enfield, N. II.
There has been but one or two days as yet
favorable to haymakers In this section.
Grass Is rapidly ripening and needs to be cut
One grain store alone has sold since June
last, car loads of corn, 1000 bushels of oats
and $4,000 pounds of shorts.