Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-16
THlRTY-NlNTH REPORT
VI Work Of Maine State Board Of
Agriculture.
6r'ei Review Of the Volume, Now Ready
tor Distribution.

ture, Hon. b. Walker McKeen is ready
for distribution
1t is certainly one of the most vol
liable and to the agriculturist, one of
the most interesting reports presented
one of the features, which adds great
~ 10 the attractiveness of the work is
the engravings of which there are q.
Ihey include some farm and orchard
scenes which cannot but serve to illus
trate what can be done in this direc
ton toward having well kept cleanly
farms, made attractive by surround
lhss, which with little care and less ex-
pense, can make a good farm, out of a
poor one, and give the farmer some
lhlng to live for and enjoy beside the
| work-a-day toll and the compensation
| that goes with it, which indispensable
| IN itself to the farmers content can be
made doubly so by attention to making
the farms pleasing to the eye.
! So Mr.. McKeen has made a speciality
in this report of showing how it can be
done, not by words, but by pictures
from photographs, which like figures,
do not lie.
Then there are enrravings of some of
| of scenery, in woods and in the open;
over plain lands and over mountains
and rolling hills.
Cuts are literally interspersed show
ing matters of interest concerning
farm materials and animals, growing
crops, etc. So much for the pictures.
The subject matter is too extensive
to be successfully comprised in so short
a space as is here permitted. There are
535 pages, all told, giving accounts of
the work done directly and indirectly
by the board.
First comes the report of the secre-
tary, which is given in full detail, in
Guiding tables showing values of live
stock. etc. Following is the address on
the subject: Influence of Width of
Tire on Draft of Wagons given by
Prof Charles ID. Woods at the last
meeting of the board. Then are the
five minutes talks by members on var
ious subjects.
Further in the book is the report of
the proceedings of the State dairy
meeting held at Skowhegan, December
End and 3rd, which includes review of
the dairy interests the winter feeding
of dairy cows, with illustrative tables.
The future of New England Agriculture
is also treated at length.
The matter of practical road i'm
provement is discussed in a paper
eral Roy Stone at the State House. 1t
is broad in it's scope not only giving
general matter on the subject but en-
tering into the history of road building in
someof the states which have been bene-
flied by systematic methods, which are
shown to be in one way or another
equally likely to be a benefit to Maine
THE Chemistry of Meats and the
Chemistry of Their Cooking" is the
subject of a lecture delivered at Frye
burg by Prof. Charles d. Woods OF
Orono 1t discusses the cooking of
animal and vegetable foods from
scientific standpoint, yet so simply that
it is within the reach of everyone's
comprehension.
So that, in the preparation of TINS
bring forth matter that Will be bene-
fetal to food growers and raisefs put
that will also be helpful to the other
half, and a quite important half az
that, which falls within the province of
the kitchen.
The report includes an abstract 81
the cattle commissioners report ana
the work done for the year
Eighty-three pages of the report are
davoted to the work of the State Col
lege Agricultural Experiment Station,
with the many subjects taken up AT
this institution, fruit of vegetable cui-
ture. dairy study of destructive bugs
and beetles, etc.
| Not least among the subjects in I'M
portance is that of sanitary condition
for barns, etc. Diagrams of the most
approved fittings for COW barns are
given to illustrate the advised methods.
A paper on the effect of tupercuhh
in cows is included, by F. l.. Russeil.
| Orchard notes and winter gardening
are given to considerable length.
| The report concludes with the work
of the State Pathological Society Tor
| the year
The work is well indexed and when
carefully read, it certainly ought to be
a nrofitable one for the farmer who, i'll
| thasa DAVIS must be- indeed up-to-
date, to find his FARMING prohtaple AN