Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-13

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
els: acreage of beans, 100 per cent
yield. Is bushels; varieties, yellow eve,
and pea beans; potato prospects. So pei
cent; slight rot reported on early vari
cites; amount of stock fodder, IS ne,
cent.
SAGADAHOC COUNTY.
Six replies. Acreage of corn, yellow
81 per cent; sweet. 70 per cent; yiel(
of oats. Al bushels. quality, 100 pei
per cent; peas, 20 bushels; wheat. q
bushels; barley. 30 bushels. mixed
grain, 40 bushels; acreage of beans, s
per cent: yield of ensilage corn. |,
tons; considerable rot reported. all va
rieties affected: amount of stock fod
der, 20 per cent.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Ten replies Acreage of corn, yellow
IS per cent; sweet, "a per cent; yielt
Of oats, sc bushels. quality l02 PEE
cent: barley, 2S bushels. quality 10
per cent; mixed grain, 40 bushels
quality, 105 per cent: acreage of beans
81 per cent. yield, p bushels. variety
yellow eyes; potato prospects. 81 PEI
cent; yield of enslage. % tons; Sigh
rot reported on potatoes. early varie
ties mostly affected: amount of stool
fodder. SO per cent.
WALDO COUNTY.
Six replies. Acreage of corn, yellow
40 per cent: sweet, 9S per cent; yielt
of oats, 80 bushels; barley, 30 bushels
mixed grain, 80 bushels; acreage o
beans. "a per cent; yield, 20 bushels
varieties, yellow eyes. white wonder.
and pea beans: potato prospects, G.
per cent: yield of ensilage l6 tons
considerable rot reported: all varietie!
affected; amount of stock fodder. 4
per cent.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Six replies. Acreage of corn. yellow
u per cent; sweet 50 per cent; yielc
IT oats. 40 bushels; wheat. - bushels
barley, 81 bushels; mixed grain, Il
bushels; acreage of beans, 100 per cent.
yield, 20 bushels; varieties. Jacobs cat
lie and yellow eyes: potato prospects
80 per cent; much rot reported; all va
rieties affected; amount of stock fod
der, 81 per cent.
YORK COUNTY.
Six replies Acreage of corn. yellow
Is per cent; sweet, 6s per cent; acre
age of beans. IS per cent: yield. !;
bushels: varieties, pea. yellow eyes
sofa; potato prospects. 6S per cent.
yield of ensilage 20 tons slight rot re-
ported. mostly on early varieties
amount of stock fodder. So per cent.
GENERAL AVERAGE FOR THE
STATE
From the 1l6 replies we gather the
following general averages: Acreage
of corn, yellow, s. per cent: sweet. 81
Der cent: yield of oats. 40 bushels;
quality, 81 per cent; pield of peas. q
= ,
Yield Of rye. "a bushels: yield of bar
ley, 80 bushels; yield of mixed grain
20 bushels: acreage of beans. SO per
cent; yield, 20 bushels: potato pros
poets, 50 per cent; yield of ensilage. II
tons; amount of stock fodder "a per
cent. More or less potato rot is re
ported from every county in the State
the early varieties being affected the
most, but in a majority of the counties
all varieties are more or less affected
COMPARISON OFAVERAGES WITH
LAST MONTH.
Potato prospects for September av-
eraged So per cent. and for October, 50
per cent, making a falling off of per
cent. This, taken with the somewhat
unusual amount of rot reported, will
tend to lessen the crop considerably
from what the September prospects
would appear to indicate.
MAINE POTATOES.
We present the United States report
for September on this crop as being the
most complete and reliable of anything
we have been able to obtain. 1t is as
follows:
The average condition of Irish po-
tatoes is S3.2. agaist 94.S on Aug. l. a
decline of 11.6 points. All but 10 states.
three of which lie on the Gulf of Mex
leo and four on the Pacific Slope, show
d decline. In six states, which to-
gether produced SIS per cent of last
years crop, the falling off during Au-
gust was as follows: New York. from
SO to SO; Minnesota, from So to 60;
Michigan, from 81 to 80; Pennsylvania
from 100 to "a; Iowa. from 80 to So;
Wisconsin, from 80 to 20.
Drought. affecting chiefly the late
crop, is assigned as cause of unsatis-
factory condition in reports from GER
tain parts of many states, but in Sc
ries of states extending westward from
Pennsylvania to Iowa, inclusive, the
crop in many localities, and especially
on the lower lands. has suffered from
an excess of rain. This has agra
waited a tendency to rot, which is re-
ported from the series of states inst in