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The Van Buren press., 1894-10-13
FARMER AND PLANTER.
LESSON TO pAIRYMEN.
Aim to Get the Most Butter When th
Article II Highest.

Aim to Get the Most Butter When the
Article h Highest.
VIII not the prevailing low prices for
butter during the summer show the
dairymen, who depend upon the ruling
bf the market, that in order to get any
money out of cows they must not be in
full how Of milk during hot weather. ;,
Cows which are to calve in the fall
are going dry. This is as 1t should be
"a full flow in autumn and winter and
falling off in summer when butter is
cheap. Taking the country through,
not one farmer in ten has any
other market for his butter but
that afforded by the grocery
stores, where good, bad and in
different all sell alike. While this
seems foolish to the regular customer
dairymen, who, whether butter comes
down to ten cents or not is sure of his
price, it is fact just the same. These
same grocery-store butter makers
might by little forethought avoid be.
ing placed In a situation where the
only alternative lies between selling at
an extremely low price and holding
their butter until fall, hoping for rise
in the price.
The old way of having all the cows
calve in the spring and 60 dry early in
the winter has obtained so firm foot
hold that it seems impossible to dislodge
it from some mems minds. Yet nothing
but direct reversal of this practice
will bring profit to the general farmer
out of his cows. Plan to have the cows
calve in October and the two following
months. Butter then brings its best
price, while the cows are fresh and do
ing their best. Then when hot wealth
er comes and the price begins to drop,
when pastures fail, when flies are trou-
blesome and the work Of making good
butter is almost an impossibility, un-
less supplied with more conveniences
than the average farmhouse possesses,
let the cows take a vacation. 1t is just
when all possible time is needed in the
field-another point in favor of not
having much milking to do.
Many men object to winter dairying
because it takes SO much grain. Years
ago, when we began housekeeping, we
had but two cows. Upon these cows
we experimental with feed and
watched the results in the milk-pail
and churn. We found that with but
ter no higher than sixteen cents per
pound our cows paid us twice over for
the grain they consumed at market
prices. We often, now that the two
cows have increased to twenty or more,
hear men ask: "How can you afford to
feed SO much grain?" But when the
butter pays for the grain several times
over, we do not hesitate to 'shove in"
the feed.
Summer dairying will probably al
ways be followed by some men. They
are the men who dislike to milk and
take care of cows when it is cold,
whose stables are far from being COM
Portable, and whose cows are of the
scrub variety. They are willing to
take u pail on their arm and 60 out to
the barnyard to milk, but can not bear
to milk in stable. When winter
comes, they prefer to sit by the
stove rather than milk; SO the milk
dwindles down to enough for coffee,
and sometimes to none at au.-Country
Gentleman.
The Van Buren press., 1894-10-13
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HERE AND THERE.

1T pays to take considerable pains
to prepare the soil in good tilth be-
fore sowing the seed.
Trying to farm without an agri-
cultural paper is as absurd as novel
without out hero, or a dinner with
out potatoes, or a town dude without q
mustache.
With stock, RS with nearly all other
farm products, the best time to sell is
when they are fully ready. There is
usually very little advantage in feed.
ing later.
Look after the shelter. tits better
to have the shelter ready two weeks
before it is needed than to be one day
behind and have the stock exposed to a
cold storm.
The early chicks will make the
early layers when eggs are high next
spring. In good warm quarters they
will begin business in midwinter and
keep it up, If properly fed.
While with nearly all classes OF
stock it is usually advisable to let run
out during the day as long as the
weather will permit, it is often good
plan to commence sheltering at night
in good season.
The most important point in milch
COW is digestion. No matter about
blood color or temperament, if digestive
power is deficient she will not be profit
able. A COW is simply machine for
converting animal food into human
food.
There is better health among row.
ing fowls because they get the food
which is best for digestion, and get the
necessary grit to help the gizzard do
its work. We should make this study
and profit by it.
In beginning with thoroughbred
poultry, it is best to begin with the
best. If you are not able to buy as
many as You would like, buy what you
can, but get them good.
Some farmers who try to make and
sell butter not only do not know how
to make good butter, but do not know
good butter when they see it. The
writer partook of some recently at the
table of an old and intelligent farmer
1t was commended as genuine goods
all wool and yard wide" Its con.
sistency was that of a half-whipped
egg; its color white, and its flavor in.
describable. 1t was worse than oleo.
margarine.
The Van Buren press., 1894-10-13

Nnt, WnAt IN tno WOrl0 90 you mean!
Company to lunch, Christine washing,
and nothing 10 eat! You have lost your
senses"
use yours then, Content She in
vited herself and Of course l am very
glad to see her, but Bessie has always
had everything and can't understand.
Ind that dreadful girl invited Harold
Phelps. | an not responsible for
that"
"We can take our dinner for lunch
and 60 without that meal II you don't
think they will prolong their visit"
"She is going on to New York this
afternoon, SO she can't. Come on down,
Content. and do act hospitable. Don't
worry mamma, we'll attend to It all. !"
In the hall Content turned on her
sister, impressivcly:
Now, Elinor Van Toolser, you've
got to use your brains to get those
dishes out Of the parlor. We will have
to make up for lack of eatables some
way, and the bread plate and fruit
dishs we can't possibly do without"
"What will mamma say?"
Never mind mamma. You just
manage to get those people ont of the
parlor and keep them until l come in
and ask Harold when Julia is going.
Then you will know that everything Is
all right"
The Van Tooker nose was all that
saved Elinor on this occasion. After
Contents effusive greeting she called
Harold and Bessie to the library to
show the latter some etchings that had
been sent her, and then led the way to
the music room TO get Bessie's ap-
proval Of some casts Content had re-
The Van Buren press., 1894-10-13
II they would make money at raising
horses.
THE SPRING GARDEN.
II You Want q Good One Begin to r
e.nra II Now.

II You Want q Good One Begin to Pro-
pare It Now.
Now Is the time to prepare for next
springs garden. II you haul out the
manure about the barnyard, clean OUT
the COW stalls and horse stables and
scatter upon the garden and tirnlp
patches; and then plow under, You Will
not heed to make an expensive compost
heap during winter. Turned into the
soil now, during September or octo'
ber, the raw manure will rot and be-
come thoroughly Incorporated with the
soil before spring work begins.
Have you tried green soiling as
means of improving the fertility OF the
soil? We mean by planting peas in
summer or early fall and turning
under the green crop just before
the first killing frost, the lat
ter part of October This plan
puts new life into the soil for next
years gardening besides, the shading
during the dry fall months consumes
the nitrogenous elements that are in
the soil, and so maintains a supply oil
some of the most important integers
that constitute the food supply of both
trees and plants.
Does the orchard need fertilizers?
That depends upon several contingent
cies-the age of the trees, the time the
land has been in cultivation and the
natural fertility of the soil. The or
chard being young, the soil OF virgin
freshness, with sufficient fertility to
produce thirty-five or forty bushels OF
corn per acre, the orchard will do we'll
for number of years without fertiliz-
ing. But when the trees come into full
bearing and make heavy drafts upon
the earth to mature their crops
the time will come when 1t will
be necessary to fertilize, else the
trees will begin to starve, the fruit
will become smaller and of inferior
quality, and so be worthless for mar
ket or home consumption. We have
observed such results time and again
in the past thirty years, SO we can put
it down as an axiom that even the best
orchard lands will soon or late fail if
attention is not given to judicious feed
ing. Those trees planted on lands
that have been cropped in corn and
cotton till they have begun to fail will
need fertilizing from the first. What
fertilizers to use upon the orchard is
an important question, well deserving
earnest, intelligent study, conjoined
with scientific experiments, worthy,
we think, to be undertaken by our ex-
pertinent stations. We hope Mr.. Price.
our A. and M. college horticulturist,
may find time to inaugurate series Of
experiments that will help to solve the
importont problem. Home and Farm.
The Van Buren press., 1894-10-13
FOR HORSE RAiSERS.
A Few Thoughts Suggested That May q
Of BENEFIT.


Of BENEFIT.
Horses are lower in price just now
than ever known before in this coun-
try. Let us look about little before
concluding that the horse-breeding
business is gone up. A writer in Farm
and Home suggests test of strength
in the horse market. He says:
"Place one thousand dollars in the
hands of a reliable, intelligent horse
buyer and tell him to secure horse
for you, standing sixteen hands high,
weighing 1,100 pounds, standard color,
handsome and stylish, good disposi.
ton and fearless, with courage, endur-
ance and action, that will allow him
to go on the road naturally at
twelve-miles-an-hour gait, pull
ing you and q companion down
the road at better than
$50 gait, and your buyer, If an honest
man. will bring you back your money
and tell you that he can't find such q
horse for the money. Such a horse is
the gentleman's ideal road horse, a
type for which there is an enormous
demand and no apparent supply"
A gentleman of this city, county
official, who uses horse more or less
every Gay, who has an eye for a good
driving horse, was telling recently of
giving his family horse to friend in
the country, on conditions that it should
be well cared for, and if at any time he
did not want it to send it back, and the
boy who brought it back should be paid
for bringing it home.
But" said he, II have new mare
to take her place-a good one, too. "
He said he had in mind a certain we'll
to-do farmer who always had good
horses. He went out, to find the farm
er overstocked. He was offered the
choice of ten head for fifty dollars, but
there was six-year-old mare, the
mother of two Of the finest colts that
had ever been on the farm, sound, a
dark bay in color, sixteen hands high,
kind handler, safe with the women
cars, would meet steam thresher on
the road and 60 by it quietly, was
never known to take nybody's dust on
the road beautiful, intelligent driv-
ing-horse-.hat it would take one hun
dred dollars to buy. My friend bought
her without one word. The farmer
said to him:
81 expect you could get more for this
mare in the spring than you have paid
me. doubt if you would take sl25 for
the mare now?"
NO" said her new owner, mot twice
that money, for she is just what want
for my wife and myself"
There is another point right here
that must be noted. The farmer Just
referred to was induced to sell tiptop
brood-mare for the price of two real
good horses. This was "killing the
goose that laid the golden egg" This
is going on all over the country. There
is horse buyer in this city buying
horses for the New York market.
Farmers are selling their best horses
and keeping inferior stock. The work
of years of breeding is going out of the
country for a song; the cheap horses
remain on the farms to reproduce
cheap horses, which are already in
over-supply.
Let us look further: The western
and southern ranges are full of cheap
horses, and can keep the horse market
of the country crowded with low-priced
things, such as they are, for years and
years. The fact is. farmers can not
hope to compete with the cheapness of
the ranges; they must excel in quality
The Van Buren press., 1894-10-13
A Common Mistake.

A common mistake of farmers is
their habit of neglecting crops when
prices are low, with the sentiment that
it will not pay to give it extra care at
present prices. The reverse is true. II
will not pay to neglect crops for this
reason. 1t is the part of wisdom to
fertilize and cultivate with greater
care the lower the price, for it has been
demonstrated that good cultivation
gives products at the least cost by in.
creasing the yield more rapidly than
the cost. Twenty per cent additional
labor will often increase the yield 50
to rs per cent.-Farm and Ranch.
The Van Buren press., 1894-10-13
Lice and IayinC.

The hens will not lay if they are tor
mented by lice. They can not sleep.
but lose appetite, and become ex.
hausted. If the poultry-house is kept
clean, lice may be prevented, but lice
may exist even in clean poultry.
house If insecticides are not frequently
used. On the bodies of the hens Persian
insect-powder may be applied with ad.
vantage. In the nests the refuse of to.
bacco factories will serve admirably
Scotch snuff will drive lice away, and
so will the free use of lime.-Farm and
Fireside.
The Van Buren press., 1894-10-13
Getting Late Strawberries.

An amateur gardener has discovered
how to get late Strawberries. He cuts
away the first flowers, and it takes two
weeks to produce another set, making
the fruit that much later. The crop
will not be as large as if the first flow.
ers had been unmolestcd, and natural.
ly the treatment is too expensive for
the market gardeners practice, but an
swers all right for the man who has
leisure to pet his plants.-Farmers
Home Journal.
The Van Buren press., 1894-10-13

Are we all here?' inquired Mr..
Brutal Jones of his landlady the other
morning at the breakfast table. -
think so-one, two, three, four; yes,
we are all here, l believe" and she
smiled sweetly; "why?' NOTHING
much, only l see by the morning pa.
per that a human skeleton was picked
up just outside the city limits" Tha
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-03-22
OBITUARY.


Annie Buck WAS the youngest daughter of
the late Capt. Stephen aud Clara Norton of
Bluehili, and was about forty years old at the
time of her death-Jsn. 30. For the past ten
years rheumatic trouble had caused her
much suffering, but eight yesrs OF that time
she had been In the employ of Rice & Co. OF
Chelsea, Mass.
After severe Illness In the fall Of 20, she
went TO visit her sister, Mrs. Cisra Herbert
In Palmyra, \. ", where she remained until
her death, which, stated. occurred Jan. 30.
1884. The end came suddenly snd unexpect-
edly-severe but brief suffering when the
disease touched her heart and then an en-
trance to the land where there is no pain
Mrs. Herbert accompanied her remains to
Chelsea. where funeral services were held at
Mrs. Irwin Morse's (anoher sister with whom
she had made her home for years.. Here her
brothers and sister, gathered, and large num-
Der OF other relatives and friend> from Blue
hill who were in aud around Boston.
Two Of the partners aud twelve employees
OF the firm Of Rice & Co. were also present,
and others from the church In Chelsea of
which she was member
After the funeral service Der brother John
took up the sad journey which the sister in
Palmyra had begun, and her remains were
brought TO Bluehll to rest in Seaside cemetery
with the many gone before.
The friends OF Annie Buck will remember
her cheerful companionship, her warm-hear,-
edness, her fsithfulnes- to her friends
Possessed of sunny nature herself she A.
ways shed brightness on the pathway OF
Others. Outspoken in her views aud convlc-
tions, above deceit, her very sincerity won her
many friends. and those friend, she always
cherished and remembered. ME- NJ.
Bluehill. March 10. 1897
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-03-22
TOWN MEETINGS.

Hancock County Town Elections Il
Officers and Financial Statements.
LONG ISLAND.
At the annual meeting March 3, the fol
loving officers were elected
Moderstor-C. c. Lunt
Clerk aud treasurer-w William A. Van
Norden.
Assessors-William a Van Norden. Will
lsm NJ. Teel, William $. Luut
School committee-Elirsm A. Luot. Will
liam : Lunt, Frank W. Ross
Constablcs-Frsnk W. Ross. Charles f.
Rice.
Colector-Hiram A. Lunt
Highway surveyor-ChsrlesE f. Rice.
Truant ofiicer-W William S. Lunt
SULLIVAN
The annual meeting was held March l2
Moderator j s. Lord.
Town clerk Henry Boyutou.
Se,ectmen. assessors and overseers Of the
pooT-k. f. Claphsm, Arthur 4. Hill
+. Il Corners
Trca>urer-C. II rTtble
collector Of taxcs-Henry l. Wooster
School commlttee-B. b Havey. J. A..
Weed Sherman Il Downing, NJ. r.
Clesves, +. A. Moves. G. + simpson. J.
b Johnson.
Cou>tab.es- Oakman Bunker. +. + Clap
ham, Alvin 7. Wilson, Asa D. Waite,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-03-22

Gen. Neal Dow> niuvticth birthday.
which occurs on March - VIII be OBJ
served sunday tyruin. March II in thu
BAPTIST church AT Chcrryn III Rev Mr
rAnr Of Maciias Will deliver an aidr,~,
Rev Mr. Lockhart VIII read poem which
hr has written for tie occasion. and the
pastors Of the other churches Viii ass Il
- various wa4~ Arpru PIRATE music ~
being prepared
Patents have recently been issued % The
following Maine inventors A. " aud
II. l.. Burnhsm. Gardiner, plate lftrr. +
+. Piper and &. II. Davis PORTLAND. cur
tain holding device ID q Rollins. Bucks
port, spring bed
The funeral services of the latr Judge
Libhey were held Al the South Congresa-
lional church, Augusta. last Saturday
forenoon, Rev. J. ;. williamson onlciat-
Ing large number II distinguished
people wss present.
Hon. K +. Dlnton Of Belfast. an ex-
mayor, and welI-known democrat OF that
city, i 10 be presented to Gov tl-avvs As &
candidate for the vacancy on the supreme
bench. caused BY the death Or Judge
Libbey. This i on the assumption that
the governor vii. appoint democrat
Other candidates mentioned are ; C.
Strout, II. W. Peabody and A. + Mnulton
Of Portland c. +. Woodward Of Bangor.
W. II Folger Of Rocklaui. and A X.
Savage of Auburn
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-03-22

HANCOCK IS ;-Gou-t Of InsuiNency.
Office il hereby gven That e fol owing mat
~ tiers in the cases hereinafter enumerated
have been presented to the court Of nsoiyri cy for
the couu OF Hancock, At a tetm OF court begun
ami hcd at Ellsworth within and for said county,
on the fourteenth day Of March, A. Il. l>gl, for
the arlloa thcrcupun hereinafter indicated. and
that u Is ordered by said cAurt that notice thei q.
OF he Published tn the Ellsworth American q
newspaper published ia Ellsworth, In SAID roun.
Is q Hancock, once week for three 4uccrs stv e
weeks that any person interested IN either ~ said
matters may appear A. = court OF Insolvency 10
be held AT Ellsworth, within anil Tor sad county.
on the twelfth Gay Of Arm. next. AZ ten O'clock
In the forenoon, and be heart thereon. ard OBJ
iert II they see cause.
calvin VI Reed ui Fremont. in said county, in
Solvent tltor. appointment " second meeting
Of Gre litors hlc'i aud app owed.
John T. Brown of Mount Desert. 4 John T
Y fr"cman Of rrcm nt both in said UNITY Of
Hancock. cp partners 10 cuisines al sald Moun,
Desert, uadet thr firm name ann sivie % irusn
Fireman. iusnycnt debtors. appointment OF
second meeting 81 creditors Hlcd and approve Ell
Randall Y Farrell, - Fremont IL sald county,
in7oiNert debtor. brhsor'- petition Tor discharge
filed.
Attest --tIIAS. T.. poRE.
Register ~ said cont for SAITH county ~ Han
cook.
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feaal \ Offices.
STATE or MAINE.

HANCOCK. IS .-couIt Of Probate. Ellsworth
Mar Tetbi, A. u. le94
4 Cc'tN fs having been flied for settlement
"A In estates Of
William NJ Ere man, late of Mount Desert
dec asc1. Allen H. Freeman. executor
otis ..rind'e. late of Penohscot, deceased
George NJ. Warren, administrator lie bonis non
Joshua sparrow late of oriand drceast, 4
Arthur ID. ~psrrow, administrator
Fred g Pttteugill % Hancock, minor Caiv in
b Young, guardian.
George y ieitengill Of Hancock minor Cal
vim II. Young. guar tan
Josie ' Pettengill OF Hancock. minor. Calvin
u Young, guardian.
Theodore u. ~ rec late Of Mt Desert. de
ceased Isabelle NJ. Pierce, administrator.
ur'icrcd-that the saIu accountants give notice
to all persons inter"s scl. by causing a copy OF
this order to be published thrce weeks success
siVciy IN the Ellsworth American. a new spapei
printed in Ellsworth, iu -afl county. that the !
may appear alta Probate Courf, 10 he holden al
Ellsworth, on the secuhh Wednesday OF
April next, at ten o'clock 10 tho fUrvooon ana
show cause If any they have. why the same
should not he allow al.
-, +. CUNNINGHAM Judge
Attest .-t'HAs 4. bnRl Register.
true copy. kttcAI -tHAs l. boRR. k..zistcr,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-03-22

Old Town elects republican mayor.
Bangor came pretty near it. and will prob
ably succeed at the reelection. Ellsworth
came within two Of it, and the defeated
candidate will ask the court for recount.
Biddeford carries off the honors-electiug
a republican mayor for the first time in
eleven years.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-03-22

Deer Isle.
Mrs. Ida NJ. Lowe left here for Law
renee. Mass, yesterday.
Charles L. knight left home Yesterday
for Bucksport TO attend school.
Madison Torrey left here yesterday f,r
Boston to paint on one of lh.. Boston and
Bangor steamboats,. HIS wife aud little
boy accompanied him a. far ~ K ickland
Hezekiah Elton died The 5 II inst If
consumption, aged sixty four years His
two daughters, Mrs. Hatch aud Mrs
Bryant, came from Waverley. Mass to At
tend the funeral
Mrs Freeland Annis in getting up tea
order for a gold band dinner st Of china
found when she got home trat she hsd
81 more than was necessary. Pretty good
for these hard times.
Mrs. Ida NJ. Lowe Of Lawrence, Mass,
WAS called mere two weeks ago by the ill.,
ness and death Of her mother. Sarah relict
of the late Amos Torrey, who died March
g. aged seventytbree years Her dsugh-
ter, Mrs Martha j. Baldwin. of Wilton,
n. H., came Saturday to attend her
mothers funeral Sunday.
March 10. MI
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MR.. Elizabeth Smith Holt, widow OF the late
Frederick A. Holt. died At her home. IL Union
Park street, Boston, March I6. after a short
Illness, terminating in hear; failure. Funeral
services were held st her atc residence on
SUNDAY last where many friends gathered 10
pay their |a-t respects 10 one whom they high
y priced in life. The remains were taken to
Bluehil. her native place for burial IN the
family lot
Mrs Holt the daughter OF the late
Nathan Ellis Of BIuehiH. in which town .be
wa. born April :. 1926. She received Der
education in the town schools aud in Rluchlll
academy. In l4i She married MIR. Holt,
descendant OF Nicholas Holt, an ,arly settler OF
the town. whom .he bad known from child
hood Her early married lite 49, spen, III her
ns'iNe town. She went To R",ton in I>G3
where -he resided up 10 the lime % her death.
For the pat eleven YEAR he hsd been
widow. Mr.. IloI; hsNin. di,d TO- lisa
A daughter survives. sod u her father
large family. Nathan tih- Of An,ravcr. Ma. .
Edward Il. kh. ~ Canforua. aui sarah u
Eli q Boston. reinain.
Mr.. Holt ws> smi,blc - deposition. l1iv
lke in msnncr. sui n,An'. 90 har christian
character qu4i'i.> .yh w,u ~ III mru,
true friend, whn "i'I h- p,,H.d PIP hear - h,r
death >hc mAintrrrI 'trou-h Hf,a warm
Aitsehm. III tor h,r nsI,. ,.'t... .uI 'or M.
frl'ui' = b.T youth, il.' .isa.- rrr.,. pe ,
wAfm auI ,ae,rf-I ~. M. ~ urr hem,
I'i. .aIl ~ hr 'hi'.h.f s.aIHrr.. va. 80
Srr1', lHi h.- ,trI.f tI-'r. arrr =. r,al.