Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-07-27
TO AROOSTOOK.
4 Pleasant Excursion Through
That Lovely Section.
/ Journal Nan Visits Many Places ol
Beauty and Interest,
And otves Our Readers the Boneflt ot
His Outing.

And Gives Our Readers the Bsnsft o
His Outing.
PREsouE ISLE, July 24.-We were callei
at 4.45 at the Bangor House en- Tuesday
morning to take the first train for Houlton
and at that early hour fouud but few peo
Pile at the Maine Central station excepting
those who had come in on the night Pull
man and were waiting to make early con
nections. We met one friend however who
was most Welcome. This vas the FRS
morning edition Of the Daily Kennebet
JOURNAL which left Augusta at 20 A. M.
containing the Associated Press and specis
| dispatches Of the news from all quarters
! home, domestic and foreign, furnished t.
the morning papers. Taking our seats in
the train we compared the Eastern Edition
with other isilies, and founi It to
| lap over sill Of them in qusntity
and quality Of news. general editorial
work put into its columns by the night ed.
itor, and make up Of matter. This edition
supplied travellers on the Pullman train
with news nine hours later than the even
| ing papers they had taken out of Boston
with them reached Bangor at i.30 A. NJ.
and got to Hoalton at l,40 P. M, contain
ing the news Of that very morning from all
parts Of the country. Keeping on, thii
edition of the Daily Kennebec JOURNAL
reached the towns in Northern Aroostook-
Fort Fairfield, Caribou and Pre,que Isle
at 4 to 4 80 p. NJ. giving them the news OF
the morning t~enty-four hours before the
| receipt of the Boston dsilies contain
ing the came news. This is mar
velous triumph OF journalistic enterprise
and one which is being appreciated by the
growing constituency Of the paper in all
parts of this county. At nrono we made u
brief call a. the State College, but unfort-
unately found none OF the Faculty. This
was hardly expected, however, as it wst
vacation time, and most of them were away
| on outings. At the village Of Ofono on
the return we met Prof Rogers for few
moments, and had more time been allowed
US to the next train, he would have re.
| turned ard showed as about the institution,
| At the college everything is prosperous.
Booming" seems to be just the word to be
used in describing it at present, as foui
new buildings are in course OF erection, and
the various departments are being enlarged
and placed upon better basis Of work in
conss quence Of larger endowments.
| Our train re eached Vanceboro little before
| 10 A. M and at that point change was made
| to the cars of the Canadian Pacific for Houl.
| tou. At his point We met Hon. L Powers
| Of Houltop, and Mr.. J. L. True Of Lans-
dale. Penn, representative of the well
known Heebner Manufacturing Company
who sell their approved horse powers and
threshers all through this county. Mr..
True is Kennebec county boy who haa
been with this same company for many
| years, and his visits to his native State are
always pleasant ones, and he is welcc med
by his old friends everywhere. Fsom Mr..
| Pc xers we obtained much information
| about Aroostook county and the towns
| which we proposed visiting; and the other.
wise somewhat tedious ride over the unia-
| teresting portion Of Queen Victoria's domin-
| ion between McAdam and Debec functions
was made enta rtaining BY jslly col versation.
Houlton was reached st 40 z NJ, a1d
| we tied up at the popular old Smell House,
where We have many times before made
headquarters. After dinner We took team
for drive into the country. our
destip alton being the farm of Mr.. A. p
Bennett in Linneus. The frat call on the
way was at the home OF MIR. Francis
| Barnes, well known as a prominent gentle
man 10 ccnr ection with our State Grange
| work a. former state lecturer, but did not
| fiod him at home. We next called upon
Hon. Parker P. Bu-le'0h at the old home
stead where Gov. B"rleigh was born, and
was fortunate in fudlus Mr.. Burleigh st
home. His farm of $50 scres is famous
for is magnificent barns, fences srd or
cbard Mr.. Burleieh has his farm fenced
into twelve fields with 3 strong cedsr fence,
aDd this work may well be his pride. IL is
the best fenced farm in Aroostook county
and probably in the State. Portions of his
orchard have beei set thirty years, and the
trees have been well taken care Of. The
Believer succeeds we'll with him. and
his aim has been 10 obtain hardy varieties
Of good quality. Mr.. Bu-leigh's fields are
beautiful and there are several fine groves
| of trees upon his farm. Proceeding on to
Linneus Corner we turn west upon the Oak
| fe ID road, and after distance of two or
three miles come to the gres. dairy farm Of
Mr.. A. P. Bennett. This farm WAS cleared
by Mr.. Benefits father from the forest,
and 40 years ago there was but one acre
| of trees Gu. upon it. Now there are $50
acres OF cleared land. and the farm en-
braces 800 acres. Mr.. Bennett keeps 10
cows, has creamery fitted up with steam fix-
lures. warns the water for bis cows in winter
and keeps a large stock of cattle His
butter product goes to hotels in>Calais and
points to Massachusetts, on contract. He
cuts 40 tons Of hay, and on the after.
noon of our visit had thirty tons
of hsy down and out in various stsgs s
Of making. On a field Of Is acres the
grass was standing a. high as ones waist.
clean beautiful herds grass, and bearing
IL tons to the acre. His potatoes OF
which he has eleven acres were msgDi-
ficent. The ride to Mr. Bennett's and
return was delightful, the roads hard, wide
and smooth; and the crops all along the
way bountiful in the extreme. Potatoes,
grain and grsss looking magnif1cen'ly.
| The buildings in good condition, ths fields
clean, we'll cultivated, free from weeds,
the foadsides lined with trees, and in many
places the ROAD encesremoved and cu.siva-
ton to the highway clean and neat.
Wednesday morning under the pilotage
of Hon. L Powers and Mr.. Geo. II. Gilman
of the Pioneer. we rode through the beauii-
full village of Houlton and Gu. for several
miles on the various roads leading into the
town. Everywhere were the same great
breadth of field, large extent of crops and
extensive operations A call was msde at
the farm Of Mr.. Ezekiel Smith on the
Presque Isle road-one of the representa-
tive farms Of Aroostook. With its wide fields
teemiDg with GRIPS. Mr.. Smith has ten
acres IN potatoes, seventy ia grass from
which he cuts 100 tors, and other crops in
proportion. He makes about two tons Of
cheese per year, all Of which is marketed
at Houlsol at 10 to IL cents per pound. We
drove past the track of Maple Grove Park,
finely located near to the villsge; and rode
to the old site Of Hancock Barracks, with
out which no visit to Houlton is complete.
At the bark extract works Of Davis &
Walton, Mr.. A. Y. Msrtin, Supt., a brief
csll was made. Here 26 cords Of he nAock
bark are ground up daily and converted
into tsnning extract At the abs,toir near
the railroad station we inspected this great
establishment. Of Swift & Co., where from
four to seven hundred lambs are killed per
day duriog the fall months, for the Bos-
ton market Other interesting points were
visited which occupied the entire forenoon.
In the sfiernoon we set ous for Presque
Isle driving scross the couatry through
Monticello, Litileton, Bridgewater and
Blaine, a distance Of forty-tvo miles. The
ride Vas delightful and the country
magnificent. Everywhere The farmers
were busy st haying snd imprev-
ing the splendid weather. On many
Of the large farms two mowers, three ho,se
rahes. and three teams hauliog in hay we're
q, work. The ride was made in TOO short q
tims to make long calls, but brief stops