Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-30

making at the South Paris corn shop
The expectation is for a pack of 500, 600
The corn and bean planting secured
amounts to 225 acres.
J. e. Weston Of Arson, has a pair OF
nice oxen and a pair of two-years-old
steers. seven feet in the line, two very
nice steers. He has four pairs of year.
lings. the largest ones measuring six
feet four inches, or more.
From the milk product of one COW,
Capt. Geo. l.. Beam at Marshfield has
made and sold duriro the past eleven
months three hundred and seven pounds
butter for MS family. which was consid-
cradle. During the month of June the
Cummings yielued 39& pounds.
Lowell Bailey Of North Arson, takes
great interest in fowls and has al
his hennery fine lot of the Plymouth
Rock breed. Fer several years he has
experimental with the different kinds
and concludes that for table use and
good layers these are the best.
Perley Goodrich of Palmyra, has a
good flock of grade Hampshire Downs.
From flock of ten sheep he has IL
isttiipS tiidt WI "CiSu Ittfil 10 TO ~
pounds apiece. Mr.. Goodrich and his
father keep Is cows and II yearliEg
heifers, mostly grade Jerseys.
F. l.. Moody of Skowhegan, grew up
dozen spring pigs which he sold fer
Az cents a pound and realized $50
above what the grain fed them cost.
the balance Of the feed being skim
milk from his 10 cows and heifers, from
which he manufactures fine butter
Up to Thursday night the total ship
ments of potatoes of the crop Of SO from
AroostOok over the II. a. A., aggregated
lisa. 454 bushels. l9Sls7 bushels more than
were shipped by the same route of the
crop of 49, For the past four days there
has been an average shipment of IL. 745
bushels per day and the average will no
doubt be considerably increased in the
next few days.
G. c. Barton of Brownville. built a silo
in his barn last season IA feet square by
- feet high. He put into it test one
and seven-eighths acres of corn covered
with Is inches of straw and let ii remain
two months. Upon opening 1t he was
much pleased with the result. He says
the silo will hold four acres of corn II
is one of Brownville's most progressive
farmers and his wife one of the best but
ter makers in the State.
The Monroe & Winterport Cheese
Company. at its annual meeting,elected
Ulcers as follows: Freeman Atwood,
president: L. o. Robinson. vice presi-
dent; Z. II. Nealley, secretary and
treasurer; Daniel Mansur. l.. Q. Robin
son. w. b. +. Twombly. trustees. Mr..
Nealley bought the milk at nearly the
same as last year with the exception of
running the factory little over a
~ no CT
At the annual convention of the bee
keepers of Waldo county the following
officers We're elected: President, e
Cernforth: secretary. F. NJ. Poland
treasurer. L. Rand; vice presidents and
representatives. J. Feyler. Waldoboro:
f. Smith. Pemaquid; III. f. Jackson,
Poor's Mills: f. Rand, Unity; H. Berry
Montviile; W. Harden, Palermo: II
Miller. Searsmont: w. Carroll Union;
c. II. Greeley. Clinton: w. Wentworth,
Searspcrt; c. II. Marden, Swanville: 3.
Ames. Thorndike; J. l. Watts, Knox:
S. Glidden, Freedom; o. Learned,
Purnham.
John Ireland of Corinna, is one of the
most enterprising and successful farm
els in western Penobscot and con
ducts business on as large a scale. His
home is IL miles from the village on
the road to Stetson. He has 10 acres
Of land devoted to tillage purposes
about so acres of which is in grain and
heed crops annually. Last season he
raised 1000 bushels of grain. and cut 40
tens of hay. His stock the presen.
winter comprises SO head of cattle, 20
of tho haI. hpi,,er mir
and % sheep. His milk is forwarded to
the condensed milk factory at Newport,
Notwithstanding the amount of stock
which he has wintered and the fact
that he has sold 80 tons of fodder, he
will have so tons left after the stock
is wintered. In the winter season Mr..
Ireland does quite an extensive bust
ness in numbering and the present win
ter has given employment to IL men for
several months cutting logs and cedar
on his let in Garland. He estimates
that his numbering operations represent
100000 spruce and 100000 shingles.
More or less interest was aroused
among the Winthrop fruit growers il
the plans outlined at the winter meet
ing of the Pathological Society on that
occasion by one of the speakers for a
system OF cooperation in marketing
the fruit. The members of winthrop
Grange determined to take the initia-
tive in the matter and devoted a re-
cent meeting to it's consideration. Mr..
D. H. Knowlton, secretary of the Maine
State genealogical Society, was invited
to be present and give the fruit grow
ers talk on the subje8E He recog-
nized the necessity Of Tsome better
method of handling fruit and recon-
the organization Of a fruit |
growers union in the State. Before
the meeting closed, the grange chose a
preliminary committee. consisting of r. |
Alden. w. H. Keith and F. C. Robbie.
who were requested to invite the presi-
dent, secretary and treasurer OF the
Maine State Pathological Society to act
with them in choosing one or more fruit |
growers from each county in the State
to take into consideration the future
of Maine Fruit Growers
Union. The committee was requested |
to call a meeting Of the fruit growers
at such time and place as may seem
best for the purpose Of effecting mere