Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-10-01
MAINE FARMING NOTES.

/ apples.
Mrs. Emily ". Rideout OF Garland
who is 16 years of age, made 100 pound
OF cheese. during the summer.
L. d. and S. w Tinkham recently ship
| ped from Arson station sixty bushels o
fancy yelloweyed beans TO Boston.
| Emmons Houghton of Fort Fairfield
has put into his cellar 1850 barrels o
potatoes from twelve acres OF land.
W. L. Scribner of Monroe, who manu-
facsures the Farmers Aorse Radish, ex
poets to put up about 80, 600 bottles thi
year.
Roscoe Haywood, one of Winslow' S en-
terprising farmers, has raised about on
thousand bushels Of sweet corn for tn,
canning factory this year.
The Twitchell Champlin C, m lany pait
Waldotoro farmers this season IS, 900. s.
lor l5O,O4 pounds Of peas, and paid ou
Tor labor on peas, s6S2.99.
Mrs. j. Chesley Demcrritt, the wei
Known woman farmer of South West
Dover, few days ago marketed one
year-oid porker weighing ass pounds.
Truman H. Bucklin of West Rockport,
raised from onc-half bushel of seed, five
oarre.s OF potatoes. He planted two
varieties Fill Baskets and Early Queen.
. Charles Hagan of East Thorndike, who
has one of the finest flocks of sheep In
Maine, recently sold an Oxford Down
buck for 500 and one sheep and lamb for
$40
Isaac Wilson of Bowdoinham has raised
over filD hnshpls -
Mr.. Wilson is one of Bowdoinham best
farmers, and prominent member of
Merrymeeting Grange.
Capt Ircson Briggs of Parkman, re-
Gently sold nine May lambs that weighed
when dressed All pounds Capt Briggs
has increased his flock of sheep to 475, the
largest flock, it is said, in the State
f. j. Townsend of Sherman Mills,
raised from one-half pound of White Ros.
seed potatoes 2S = pounds and from five
pounds of another kind A., bushels. One
potato weighed three pounds and two
ounces.
s. Norton of Dover, says the standard,
is the champion squash grower of Piscata.
quis county. On single hill are 81
squashes and Mr.. Norton estimates that
from this hill alone he will harvest 1900
pounds of ripe squash.
A Sherman Mills correspondent SAYS
there are men In that town who pay $40
an acre for the use of land, put on one
half ton of phosphate to the acre, plant,
hoe and dig their potat oes and then clear
$500, as a summers work
Fred M. Haines of Fort Fairfield. has a
fnp nrphprI nf ahp,t
Duchess and Wealthy, all in good con
dition. About one-half Of the trees arc
now bearing heavily, and the remainde,
will probably be old enough in a few
years to bear.
Some Of the incest tomatoes ever mar.
keted In Rockland were brought in this
season by Edwin Hawes of Union Mr..
Hawes marketed his first fruit Aug 4,
getting five cents pound. He had 2300
plants. of two varlcties-New Stone and
Mau's Imperial.
Henry Galway of Skowhegan, raised a
crop of peas from seed raised this year
He planted the first seed in April, they
ripened In July. Planted second crop in
July and Sept. 90 he had mess of green
peas from the vines. He expects this
SeCOHu crop Co rlpen.
One of the best crops of potatoes in
York county, this season, will be har-
vested by Ira r. Hayes of Saco, who has 9
acres of tubers at his home on the Ferry
road He has used his system of irriga-
tion and distribution of liquid fertilizer
with rare success and the crop is going to
repay him.
Frank p. Blanchard gives the Sanford
Ledger the following item which may
prove interesting. He says that he plant, d
an acre OF sweet corn, dwarf Crosby seed,
and from this one acre. after selling 116
dc N in the village, he delivered to the
corn factory 1925 pounds for which he
received sl.75 per cwt. making the total
income from the single acre sS5.53
Ell. :. Sidelinker of South Atkinson.
has thrcshed 504 bushels of oats from nine
acres, an average of Sc bushels TO the acre.
He also raised 90 bushels of mixed grain
to two acres, making total of 900 bush
els from eleven acres, all of excellent
quality. In July he dug and sold 10
bushels of potatoes from one. half acre and
is digging good crop this fall free from
rot.
The total amount of corn put up at the
Winthrop corn factory this year was
207, ,605 cans. This Is much less than last
year, when the largest business was done
since the factory was established here.
Willis Cobb had the largest crop of any of
the farmers who planted this season, and
received in cash s1SS for what he raised
on three acres, an average of sGG Sc q per
acre. Last year Mr.. Cobb planted four
acres and 80 rods, and received s455 40
for his crop in cash.
Phillips Phonograph: f. D. Prescott
has Jersey COW, five years old, thorough
bred, not registered, which made, during
the summer In which she was two years
old, two and one-balf pounds OF butter
from ten quarts Of milk This present
season she made fifteen and three fourth S
pounds OF butter during the first seven
days Of May: and during these seven DAYS
two quarts of milk were used daily for
other than butter making purposes No
provender was fed during this period She
is making ono and a half pounds Of butter
daily at tie present time.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
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