Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-07-25
MAINE FARMING NOTES.

About 1000 pounds is the weekly product.
Moses Robinson of Guilford has eleven
sheep which he calls good ones as they
sl,earcd 90 . pounds of wool The heaviest
fleece weighed Is Ia pounds, the two light
est little less than six pounds.
The Newport condensed milk company is
talking of largely increasing the capacity OF
its factory, as the company is unable to use
all the. milk the farmers wish to furnish.
Such an industry established here would
greatly enhance tine value of farm property
for circuit of miles around these villages.
Mr. X. W. Doak has corn in silk at his
finely cultivated and attractive garden on
Summer street, Foxcroft. Persons noticing
the luxuriant vegetation on Mr. Doaks
ground can form a good idea of the rapldity
of growth by remembering the planting was
done in the month of June. Ills peas stand
erect and are more than six feet high
Observer.
The trustees of the Franklin County Ag-
ricultnral Society have awarded the con
tract for constructing jl6 feet of cattle
sheds upon the county fair grounds, to MIR.
Wallace NJ. Fellows. The building which
stood little way south of the grand stand has
grounds and will be remoIcled for an eat
ing saloon. The sheds will be bnilt along
the side of the grounds where that building
stood. Great preparations will be na'ie tor
ore of the best show and fairs yet held in
Franklin county.
No Maine sweet corn eau be packed be-
fore September. There are not one thous-
anil cases out of some hundred thousand,
',,a,.'.a1 M IVA m, tiv, hupJrcJ cases
- ,.J,y,.,, I,.r, in tirs, hands IA las, far the
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6y, d.rs Hurni.u, 4 Morrill, have contiu-
,,aJ g. L.,,J ta ,ln dn,nts for western
sI,;rr,o,, ali ,,,n;r immense mack of GALLON
II, and ,lnro ave not ,,,n thousand cases
~ r,lor ,,,,Ls lott rnsnld scattered among
al n,ntors ,rhe yholrs,lr dealers were
',','r -, Law, ,,,,,, in stoct of these goods
~ "a, nrcsent AMI If tbe.e f.rts do not in1i-
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nay !" my houf Ill III. "'N anu 'i'' am
mas aaheo tens Vi .housah's oi 'oi,ai9
10 'he value Oh o'c e'"p, e,'i.e
III Tie southern paris Oh ,he oia"
the June rams were ho' carry
enough to increase thc crop as hcasi'y as
desired p't There mas oeeh n''" iaun W
ma on u'at score ana 'ar ABOVE al a'eiaSr
crop Is Iepor'en' II nor iuh onc' VI
course 'here may ne rams no" peiore ~,
the farmers nave hhisiied' pu' 'hes are al
Delighted 10 nave ehJoye" immunity iio'''
The gentle down 1iii so long
The greatest sight that has been seen in
Parkman for fifty years is seen by taking
short walk from the corner OUT Oh
hand side of the road is five acres of corn
in one piece. 1t all stands fully three feet
hish' one TO" Is iouf rev ~ n's
~ :, III ,or acras he Major nr,g,s. Tho
pronrietor of the SunnvsiIe farm. TN this