Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-10-27

rarzs5ve few years is has b<coms ore IT -
impossaEt causing in1Hse1iss a1d factories
Rave been essahlsahsd solefy 70 PACK them.
Ia Waskinxssa cosstF, the ex rene essstrn
eoEnfy 81 Maine, vhfra bJri<fs % sks S.
Cfosr river Aad which Hr& n exises the
Light ani warmth Of the rsslrx sun y
cases Of kil1ebsTf.es Of svenfy four cans
ia 3 case. we're earned in ssst one county
alone in is-s. making 7ss so ars-fs. and
mase fasn t~:cs last Euinoef are Consumed
By the inbaasssnss and marketed fresh
Inose canae. are sect all over the eeanssy
and across the cerri 7ens AID Atlantic ocean
They aye called wild fruit, AMI ye: they are
eussi4a-ed Ia ore wsy. Vase iieils Of
bInsberriss where IN. Paa.s sprirs
spontaneously from the soil are arns-
ally visited, chiefly BY ta1Eszns.s Of
women ard sSisdrea. dnring the suoi-
rler vacation. . large proportion Of vhcn
live upon the ground in tents during the
about sIx weeks CT bIusbsrrs seasoa. and
satsser the fruit. using rakss when the
berries are veil rfpened- Macy farli =
oissia ali ths monzy earned by them during
the year from ihis source. and tome earn
more than the head OF the fsriiy esras
curing the ebtire year. Inc bust
ness = row baccmisg syst m stized
Large tracts Of burberry territory, in some
instances covering msny thousand acres,
are controlled by individuals unter Lease,
xhe every two or three years rsBe~ tie
crop by the torch, alternately burning a
portion Of the ground in the early spring
rhen no damage can De doae. The blu--
berry bashe, would Otherwise run out and q
species Of laurel, sweet fern and otaer veg
citation take their laes.
Bus there Is greet draw back even to
this Industry. We arc tire ext deer neigh
bsrs. as before stated, to the British
provinces Hni blueberries are ea1ped there
and brought list, our markets ard sold al
much less price than i: cess our canning
e.tsb isbmen's 10 pack them, for the very
reason ha. those who gather th<m in Main.
cannot afford to do so tor ore cent or one
aad one half cent, per quart, IS we are in
formed is paid ia the provinces for the
ssme kind and quality Of berry. We pay
oar people better prices and the CONSCIENCE
was, the pack was cut short the pas. veal
be cause il would 70. pay 70 can the fruit.
ard thousands of poor people were for a
time deprived of their accustomed source
Of living at season when they could ge,
no other occupation. and many who packed
thern lost money because they could not con-
pete with their provincial neishbors The
same causes operate to effect unfay orably
other agricultural interests aud other indus
tries In al the eastern states, and part Gu
larry In Maine. where her farmers come In
competition with her provincial neighbors
and how in their reciprocity treaties with
this country she pulled the wool over the
eyes of our astu.e politicians by their supe-
rior craftsmanship, SIS they claim, ard il
Maine they think i. was about true.
Maine, according to the csnsus Of $50,
raised $780, bushels of oats, G65, IA
bushels of wheat, $50. GS3 bushels of corn I;
of other grain crops-5uckwhest. harley
and rye she raised G5l,2st bushels
Although she in her grain product does not
compare with the western states her farmers
can market all the grain and receive, in
price, often three times as much per bushel
for what they raise as the record will show.
The present census will show gain In all
grains but corn, If we are rightly info med.
Maize has but one county, Arocs.ook
which can be ST ietly Gale an agricultural
county. Extending across the northern
border of the State, it has an area consid-
erably larger than the ST IL of Massachu-
sets, possessing climate and soil al lpted
10 the cGl iyation of mos: grain crops.
Though her wi lters are long, and her grow
ing season short, her crops mature rapidly
ard never fail to yield abundant returns
for the care bestowed upon her soil. In
$50 she had population of only 1899. 10
lsS0 she bad Increased in population from
$3.50 to Al, 100, With valuation s. So ,9&2,
and the present census will sbos greater
increase in wealth and population as well
as in farming products.
While New England, aod especially
Maine. produces. of agricultural products,
infinitely more than she ca1 consume sin
seventeen days, ard in some articles suf-
ticient to last through the entire year, an
longer, and Maine could supply herself
with what she nee Is from Arocs,cok touu-
ty alone, were her resources fully de-
veloped, and New England Goes supply
herself almost wholly with garden yegst-
ables; size gathers her chief importance
and her wealth and distinction from the vast
number of ether industries which employ SO
large proportion OF her proportion OF popu
L,tion, and which enables the farmer 80 ind
I market for tis products, and which draw
from the great West vast quantitie, of grain
to hel p sustain them, and from the South
the produces peculiar TO her soil and eli
mate. Among them we name her numer-
ons lumber mills and wonderful variety of
articles which are wrought. from all kinds
Of woo', from all kinds of machinery, and
cuDring devices. born of the fertile brain
Of the Yankee; her cotton and wooden
manufactures Which produce the almost in-
Vulnerable article, Of wear aud other things
made from Them, 50 essential to cur com
fort, health TASTE and luxury.
Her tsnneries. her boot and shoe indus
tries, (which bring music from the lap stone :
her founiries aud machine shops and iron
works of all kinis where is constantly herr!
the clapg Of steel the anvls ring and il
seen myria5s of sparks, which are ince.s-
sntly thrown from the heated iron in o
space from innumerable FORCES worked by
s;alwait arms, which tell of tirelcss energy
an, labor directed by science and genius
Her slate aud granite qlsrriss which
are rapidly increasing and are Assuming
huge proportions in which NJ line is tn F,
third State 10 her STATE products and the
first in the extent of her gr mite ia lustries,
her INN nse lime quarries in the mi lion.
of barrels of lima which trey annually pro-
dure; her sea fisheries which exceed il
value sn1 extern all other sta 'es, and in
which Maine sta d. see md in the roll of
s:ates, and first in the importance and
value of her river fisheries; her ssrline
and &c b,tcr fisheris 3 AMI canning establish
meBts in which Maine stands forth mos,
pIomineat ard at the present ire, not only
first. but slmo-t alone, and an ually psrks
80, 000, 900 cans of ssrdinfs and 500 0Cu
cars of lots;ers; her extensive cod and
mackersi fishsries, her enormou, trade in
fresh, picked sni smoked fish of many
kinds. reaching toto the millions of box ~.
birrels and pounds, making tn. srsrming
bal iats of the Vastly deep contribute to the
sus'enancs of the nation. aud TO the in
crossing wealth of New England
Her building, in which Milne has
annually built greater amount Of tonnage
than any other state. and the present year
vi | lsur eh upon the bosom of the deep u
vastly increased number and tonnage of
wooden AMI iron suips, to bear upon the
OCEANS breast the products of this grea,
nation; the surplus produces of the ua-
rivsiled West, Of the Sunny South, and the
busy ard tireless East, to the four quarters
of the elsbe. and to bling back the
freiGhted treasures, and commerce of the
Old World.
We cannot omi. TO mention the ice crop
which is peculiar TO Maine. and hiss always
been sure crop. and which the present
year will bring millions of clean cash irto
that State as the result of fer wesks'
labor of her ice kings in harvesting this
cor paraiively ner source of enterprise
and wealth. While the God of rstrre has
made \ rigorous sesson. productive of A
mammoth industry Without espiial and
without labor. to prepare il for the harvest
These sra come of the macy industries
Of the ess'e'n ststes, ard Of Msine in pr
,ieu'ar, which draw their life from ihs hus
bandman. and whch could not exist but for