Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-28
MAINE FARMING NOTES.

The Tort FAIRFIELD butter factories re-
ports business good.
The cheese factory at Dixmont is doing
an excellent business.
One Milo man has sold six tons OF his
hay In the field after 1t was cut and ready
for the barn for IS per ton.
Aroostook county merchants report
small sales Of paris green, this season,
compared with previous years
The corn crop, 1t is reported, will be a
failure in some parts of Waldo county,
Judglng from present indications.
Stephen Harvey of South Berwick puts
IS tons of fodder corn into hts silo each
vear. which he says saves him . tons oil
hay.
John Sweet of Atkinson has black
berry patch from which, last season, he
sold $40 worth of berries, and Will SOIL
more than that amount this year.
j. H. Lincoln of Mars Hill has one Of
the finest fields of wheat in Aroostook
county. It consists Of two acres, ana the
wheat will average four feet high.
owned by c. C. Nichols at Ripley Is. do
ing fiourishing business. making about
one thousand pounds of excellent butter
per week.
best looking piece of corn in that town. II
without fertilizer. 1t now measures eft.
Ain. high and is very even. The seed was
brought from Canada ~ years ago. mr..
berries from 300 hills. this summer.
Alvah Donnell of West Bath is one of
the largest strawberry raisers in that
vicinity A leading grocer estimates that
he has brought at least 1000 quarts to the
Bath market this year. AS they have not
brought less than 16 cents per quart at
any time he has taken at least 1920 for
strawberries this year
A Blaine correspondent writes: Last
year iona Hersom cut from 30 to ~ tons
of hay. He finished haying on Saturday
and only cut about 10 TONS This is 9
large falling off. and the daughter a.s Of o old
try would be better of If one-half the
old useless horses you'd be sent to the
phosphate factories"
Dexter man recently shipped two
fVe-years- old oxen to Bangor weighing
respectively 1888 and 1899 pounds after
they were dressed. This Is pretty near
the same weight, only six pounds differ
ence. The thing most remarkable to
note is where the variation came in. The
meat only varied one pound. the tallow
two, and the hide thEee.
A Rockland man who spent some time
I'm a section of Canada where they raise
a great many cabbages is trying an ex.
pertinent in his garden that he saw tried
over the line. He drops pinch of salt
into the head of his growing cabbages
Down in Canada they say the salt keeps
out the bugs and worms and helps the
cabbage head up. It's an easy expert
mont to try.
Fred G. White of Belfast, since last
fan has purchased about 5000 tons of hay
which is fully one-half the expectation
of hay from the county. 1.-THE average
rfice has been about $1,000 per ton. Thi:
the county some $l05.000. The hay ha:
been shipped to Boston. requiring s.
coasting vessels to transport 1t. The
freight paid was 81 per ton.
The Pressure Isle Star-Herald report.
the condition of crops in Aroostool
county at present to be about as follows
Hay crop less than half the average
grain crop in excellent growing condition
yield. Potato fields very uneven IL
growth and condition. but in genera
backward and promising, a light crop
The crops except grain will undoubtedl.
fall much below last season. but the out
look is for improvement in prices.
A. A. Eastman of Dexter. who doe
quite a business in small fruits, report
this to be an unusually year for berries
He has worked but a few days picking
his crop of gooseberries but 1t is said tina
his will be one of the largest crops eve
estimated that it will amount to 20
bushels of gooseberries and 100 bushel
of currants, while he has harvested
large lot of Strawberries and has a BIZ
yield of raspberries. embracing numbe
of different varieties.
A Willimantic correspondent gives tn
following advice: IF farmers woul
just winnew all of their grain IN tn
astonshed at the amount of foul see
they would WinnOW out and the.
wouldn't see so much wild mustard grow
ing. 1t will pav every farmer to buy
NV mill TO oleass his seed grain with
If = GARNER SINKS anything of clea1
crops ten or twelve dollars in a mill ism
mach to pay out for it will last a life
time. 1t doesn't cost any more to cut an
save our own grass seed than it does t.
buy it. Take a piece of Timothy grass
Bet it stand until fit for seed then cradl
or reap the top for seed and NOV TN
bottom for hay.