Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-04

tfent It is usually best to do nothing.
Give nature = chance to cooperate with
her efforts by Interfering unreasonably.
1t Is quite as we'll to be very, saving OF
your medicine. Medicine has its place
and Is frequently necessary but ,i i IS SAL, IN
great caution. Medicine that Is powerful
enough to be of any use in an emer-
gency is powerful enough to DC INJURIOUS
fully believe that If all the drugs emu
merated In the pharmacopoeia were sunk
In the bottom of the sea our sick animals
would be better OF, but we should PLY ply
any medicine at all without having we'll
grounded reason, Those medicines for
which interested quackery claim every
cure-alls for all kinds of unrelated NAL
aides had better be left severely alone.
They are advertised solely in the interest
of the manufacturer. You take more FISK
The might of unreasonableness in rela-
ton TO the use of medicine Is reached
when extravagant prices are PAID Tor
mildly harmful drugs to feed to well an
imais to keep them well or render the
more productive. Better invest your
money in lottery tickets. There is thou
sand more chances of getting 1t back.
The whole question of barn sanitation
is complicated by existing conditions that
are more or less permanent in their ma
ture. Could each of us choose the loca-
tlUll IUF OuI DulIulIlSS ana cOlSiIu thtlu
ourselves we might have things more
nearly as we like. This Is not always
possible. Yet cannot something be ac-
compiished? Do We not often submit TO
Do we not sometimes get into the ruts
and fail to do as well as we know be-
cause we are accustomed TO do otherwise?
Sometimes perhaps, because we cannot
have everything as we would like it, we
fail to make some improvements that are
entirely within our reach. That man Is
TO be pitied who thinks he has reached
so near perfection in the line OF his call
ing that he does not deem it worth while
to consider any further Improvements.
The world moves all the time, but man
may stand still. The farmer who VIII
keep in the van of progress in this the
last part of the nineteenth century must
be able to appreciate his needs. and leave
no effort unexpended to meet them. If
our barns are not well constructed they
must be improved. If we have been look
ing for the best returns without paying
attention to the best means. We can be
but disappointed.
Prof. Chas. ID. Woods, director of the
Maine experiment station at Orono,
was the next speaker.
The speaker took for his subject.
Experiment Stations and the Dairy
Industry" The experiment station be-
gan so years ago in the little village of
Moeckern. near I.eipsic. Germany.
Some of those most interested in the
work called to their aid young chem
list and by their own subscriptions.
later assisted by the government, es-
tablished the first experiment station
in the world. The value of this work
so impressed itself upon the people of
Germany. that stations multiplied
rapidly and now there are 100 in
European countries.
In the United States. the first ex-
pertinent station was established in
1875 in Middletown. Conn. The sta
ton was supported at first partly by
the state and partly by Mr.. Orange
Judd. the founder and proprietor Of
the American Agriculturalist
Shortly after there were other sta
tons established. and in 1887 there
were - in active work. In that year,
Mr., Hatch. a member of Congress In
PRODUCED that which came 10 be known
as the Hatch bill. whereas $4,000 per
annum is appropriated under certain
to each state and territory
for the maintenance of an experiment
station.
There are today upwards of 80 eX
pertinent stations in America. which
have an annual income of three
quarters of a million of dollars. In
looking at such enormous figures, one
is tempted to ask whether these sta
lions pay. Ii is my belief that the
Babcock milk test. whereby any person
can tell accurately the percentage of
butter fat in the milk and cream, was
given to the world by an experiment
10 CT had dome
nothing else, this is worth to the dairy
industry all that the station cost.
The experiment stations should do a
line of work that the farmer cannot
do for himself. but which will eventu-
ally be of great benefit to him. such |
as variety tests of the |
different kinds of plants. field expert |
ments and others more complicated as
the digestion experiments, also the study |
of fungus diseases and the habits of |
insects.
The best work of experiment stations |
is along lines Of more abstract inquiry. |
involving inquiries of such |
nature that one would be almost |
to think they had no practical
bearing. 1t is these abstract inquiries
that bring in the fundamental knowl- |
edge of the sciences which underlie |
agriculture.
DIR. George w. Atherton, LII. D., |
president of Pennsylvania State Col |
lese, gave lecture at $50. this even |
ing. on The Future of New England |
Among the exhibits in the hall is |
that of the Worcester salt. The ex- |
hbit is in charge of II. G. Thurlow |
and that gentleman says that, Jan. !. |
his company will bring into New Eng |,
land $50 carloads of the company's salt. |
which will consist of 100000 pounds, |
the largest shipment of any COM |
modify ever made.
State Master Wiggin of the State |
Grange arrived in town on the 10.40 A.
NJ train.
The Somerset Traction Company in
vited the members of the State dairy !
to take ride over the line |
to Madison and a large number ac-
cepted. |