Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-07
MAINE FARMING NOTES.

Thomas Vining of Avon. owns a pair
of remarkably handsome Hereford
calves.
Alvin Shirley of Warren. is blowing up
q field of five acres of potatoes that ii
would not pay to dig.
b. j. Grant of Acton, has fine Here
ford bull calf that girted four feet ana
two inches the day he was IA weeks
old
A Dixfield farmer reports that his thres
swarms of bees have made iust three
pounds of surplus honey during the whole
season.
b. A. Nichols of Abbot states that his
record of butter made from six cows for
the past twentyfour months is 1924
pounds.
Amos Holt of Norridgewock. har-
vested IS big loads of oats from four
acres of ground; they We're the Silver
Mine" cats
that in looking over a thrifty orchard in
Minot of about Is trees, could not discov-
er half-bushe of apples.
There are thirty-six patrons of the
cheese factory at Leeds Center. carrying
1000 pounds of milk. in lots from six
pounds to three hundred pounds.
The North Penobscot Agricultural and
horticultural Society will hold its 10th
annual fair at Kingman on Sept a. Is
and l6. This fair is always attended by
many people and this years exhibition is
awaited with interest.
A I. Heath of Bremen. sold four Light
Brahma hens, last week, for 81 each. He
has sold all his eggs, this season, for set
ting purposes for 80 cents a dozen: one
party alone bought 10 dozen of them
Poultry raising. well conducted. is the
most profitable business there is in this
section writes a correspondent.
There is a handsome hefer calf in W.
J. Wheeler's stable, South Paris. She
looks like a yearling, but is only four and
a half months old and weighs 40 pounds
Her sire is a registered Jersey and She
herself is handsome specimen of the
breed. put her dams pedigree, though
evidently largely Jersey, is untraeed
Pittsfield man says that this fan
all the cattle down there are to be ex
amined and tested, in order that the
farmers who own them can sell their
cream and milk, and that the man who
| tests them charges 81 apiece. AS there
| are over 1000 cows in the town il will
! be a snap for the doctor
| Among the reports of rot and rust we
hear OF some farmers who have very
! promising tracts of potatoes save m.
| Star-Herald. Mr. Looman HAYDEN mas q
| twenty-five acre piece which has escaped
damage and is very thrifty: isaac Clark
OF Maysyille, has about AN equal area
which will yield an average crop white
Mr. r. r. Parkhurst will get good crop
from quite a percentage of ,Iis ialue
plant.
Presque Isle Star Herald The pros
pect as to potatoes is by no means as
| good as Il was week or ten DAYS ago
| The weather has been about as had as
1t could be. alternating rains and
showers with warm. muggy weathe.
The result is that rust has made great
havoc with most aelds. especially In
the vicinity of Presque Isle. and com
pialilts Oh serious rot affecting the
.upeis are heard from nearly all quar-
ters AT this date it is Impossible tn
form any estimate of the probable
crop, owing to the different conditions
in different localities. and the conflict.
ing reports as to yield. extent Of rot
e,c'' put " seems certain now that
! there VIII be very slim crop.