Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-25

By invitation the party which occu
pied the Burns cottage during the SEES.
sion of the Legislature will have a re-
union at ''Marsquamosy Lodge" NJ.
Undertakes cottage at Rangeley, mex,
week. The party includes Judge
Savage, Mr.. Plummer of Lis
bon; Mr.. Higgins of Limerick
Senator Drummond of Portland, Mr.
Merrill of Portland, and Mr.
Currier of Pennington. The party will
go by the way of the Portland & Rum
ford Falls Railway. A special steame:
will meet them at Bemis. They will
dine at the aMooselucmeguntic House
the guests of Landlord Page, who runs
the Mooselucmeguntic House summers.
In the agricultural department they
are sending out the usual October
queries to the farmers.
Below is a copy of the circular as
issued:
$50 SWINE NUMBER.
Board Bulletin No. s. October, 1897.
My Dear Sir: In making up our bulle-
tin for October, we, in addition to the
seasonal crop questions, ask for your
ideas on the growing and handling OF
swine. Swine growing is an important
branch of stock raising in Maine today,
but on account of low prices for hog
products for few years past it has
hardly received the attention its merits
would warrant. With the advancing
price of corn and the continued and Sc
we're drought through many of the West
ern states, the prices of hog products are
sure to advance. and we believe it will be
we'll for our Maine farmers to give the
subject more attention. We shall be
pleased to have you give your ideas on
the best breeds; the most desirable
seasons to have pigs farrowed; best
methods of feeding and kinds of feed for
growing pigs, brood sows and fattine
hogs; most profitable age to kill, and best
methods of disposing of the products
best arrangements of pens and troughs
with drawings, if possible; the pig as an
adjunct to the dairy, and any other
thoughts or suggestions that may occur
to you.
l. Give acreage of corn, average reck'
oned at 100 per cent. Yellow. sweet.
q Give yield in bushels and quality OF
grain as far as threshed. Oats, peas
wheat, rye, barley, mixed grain.
g. Give condition of fruit, average
reckoned at 100 per cent.
4. Give potato prospects, average reck
oned at 100 per cent.
s. Are there any indications of rot ant
if so what varieties suffer most?
G. Give yield of ensilage corn per acre
in tons.
I. Give amount of stock fodder OF
hand, average reckoned at 100 per cent.
| Will you please answer these questions
as accurately as possible, letting you
answers cover the conditions of your 10
cality rather than your individual cOndi
lions, and return to this Office on or be
| fore October 1st?
Thanking you in advance for this ia
vor, we remain Yours very truly,
B. WALKER McKEEN, Sec.
l
| The City Water Company has been or
ganized at Kittery, for the purpose o
manufacturing fixtures and apparatus TO
water works and to construct and main
| tain water works with 100000 capita
stock of which $1,000 is paid in. The off
GERS are: President, Mark w. Paul o
Kittery, Me-; treasurer. Fred B. Val
Worst of New York, N. Y. Certificate ap
proved, Sept. II, 1897.
Mason & Hamlin Company has been or
ganized at Portland for the purpose o
manufacturing organs and pianos wit
5000, 900 capital stock of which $500 is pai
in. The officers are: President, Edwar
p. Mason of Milton. Mass; treasurer, Ed
ward p. Mason of Milton. Mass. Certifi
cate approved, Sept. II. 1897.