Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-14
MAINE FARMING NOTES.


Embden's third annual cattle show
and fair will be held September 80.
Lamb buyers are paying about fifty
cents per head more this year than
last.
There will be the shortest crops of
beans. potatoes, apples and peaches
known for many years.
A large quantity of aftermath is be-
ing cut by the farmers. The continued
wet weather has made it very stout this
fall.
Potatoes are rotting badly in King
field. One farmer dug 60 bushels and
only got II bushels that were free from
affected ones.
Is. A. Nichols of Abbot, has made
from six cows the past "A months 1874
pounds of butter. The most of this lot
was sold in Guilford.
Hopkins Bros. of Abbot have 40 head
of neat stock, three horses and flock
of sheep They have IS young calves.
They have lately bought five Holstein
calves at a fancy price.
The farmers are commencing to feel
the effect of the big hay crop. One
man says that thousands of tons of
good hay will be shipped out of Maine
in bales where hundreds of tons were
shipped last winter.
A. ]. Remission of Dixmont, the poul-
try man, has started out on his fall
pilgrimage of exhibiting his large col
lection of poultry. During his absence
he will visit Boston and Brockton,
Mass, Providence, Il. L., and several
other places.
A. A. Eastman of Dexter, the well
known grower of small fruits, has men
at work digging a drain some 20 rods
long at one side of his land by which
he hopes to overcome the trouble he
now experiences in working the soil OF
his extensive garden.
Pressure Isle Star-Herald: The Da-
kota potato was very much below pal
last spring in the estimation of ouI
farmers, it having been almost a dead
letter as regards price for two seasons
The farmer, however, who planted Da-
kotas last spring hit the nail exactly
on the head. This variety is escaping
the prevailing rust, and is said to be
giving every promise of good yield
with little or no signs of rot.
E. S. Sidelinker, one of South Atkin-
sons successful farmers, thinks that
one secret of his success in getting
good crops, is the fact that he uses TIL:
best seed he can get His theory is
good seed, good crops; poor seed, poor
crops and his crops sustain the theory
OF course unfavorable seasons like this
he
Among the unusual things in Mr.. Side
linker's possession are two yokes OF
oxen.
A full blooded, registered Jersey
COW, with a bull calf two weeks old
was bought recently by Frederick A
Coombs the we'll known farmer and
newsdealer of Ellsworth. The COW is
registered as Maree Of Mackworth. No
110,990. A. ]. c. c. The calf is by
Harry p. who took first premium at
the New England fair, and who is one
of the best bred bulls in the country
Mr. Coombs bought the animals of J.
+. Buker of Bowdoinham.
A Waldo county correspondent
writes: 1T is already time for potato
digging and with the farmers it does
potatoes are small and very few in a
hill, while a large percentage of them
are rotten, report which reaches us
from all around. The hay crop while
large was harvested in a long time Of
hard work and great deal was then il
poor condition. The farmers naturally
looked to their garden crops but as fal
as potatoes are concerned the goo1
ones will be small and few. Farming
this season has been rather discourag-
ing and has been done under many dis
advantages.
Parsonsfield is proud-or should be
of young man by the name of Lewis
Pendleton, who claims the stoutesl
sight worth seeing. The corn is about
eight feet in height, and will average
eight and nine ears to the hill: most OF
the stalks have two large ears, and il
is almost impossible to pass through
between the rows without breaking
down some of it. Many visit it every
day, and come away with the same eX-
presSion--"I never saw the like of it.
There is a little strong three acres il
the piece. and good judges set it at 50'
bushels of ears. The lowest estimat.
is $50 bushels of ears. Mr.. Pendletor
says if he has good luck in harvesting
the corn and gets $50 bushels, it vii
not cost him over ten cents per buShel