Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-19
MAINE FARMING NOTES.

Fred Austin of East Exeter, recently
sold seven hens, the combined weight OF
which was forty-two pounds.
Mr.. Aaron shuman has shipped 100 car
loads of potatoes from Winsiow Mills, to
BOSTON, In the past ten years.
AS potato digging progresses through
out Aroostook county the returns from
different sections are more encouraging.
A. X. Foster of Canton Point, raised
| from two acres of ground, three hundred
and thirty-four bushels of mo. T. corn.
Arden Young of Otis, has a Klondike In
his cellar-2o0 bushels of potatoes. He
is the most envied farmer IN Hancock
| county.
Wilbur & Co.. of Phillips, recently
bought almost 100 pounds OF wool from
| three men. Abram, Leonard and John
Ross of Rangeley. The biggest single lot
was between 5000 and 1000 pounds from the
Luther Nile farm.
| Harris 4 Fellows, the hustling live
shipped to Brighton from Aug. 81 to Oct.
| ii, $l6,jo0 worth of stock, consisting of
seventeen carloads of hogs DC to a carr,
293 cattle. GA sheep, and 4Gl calves.
| Mrs G. A. Merrill of Parkman, has four
profitable sheep that have yielded a good
profit in the way of lambs and wool above
their keeping this year. Each had twin
lambs which brought $24; to which add
$4.52 received for the wool, and we have a
total of $2S.52.
Mrs. Cora Yeaton of Islesboro, raised
in her garden this season an immense
pumpkin which measured five feet and
one inch in circumference and weighed G2
pounds. She also raised four very large
squashes which will not fall far short of
the pumpkin in weight.
f. G.. league of North Waldoboro,
slaughtered a calf fourteen weeks old
that weighed when dressed 233 pounds
The hide weighed 43 pounds The calf
was raised by William Wiley of Warren
league shipped it to Boston parties and
the freight agent thought it was q cow
Some of the Maine farmers are pre-
pairing their ground for an early start
next spring. in anticipation of big crops
another season. 1t Is seldom that two
bad years occur in succession and the
prospect of good demand for farm pro-
ducts warrants good courage for the flu
ture.
A. w. Bryant of North Arson. recently
sold very nice pair of Hereford steers to
Sylvester Healy of Concord. They are
two years old, weigh 2475 pounds and girt
II. in. Mr.. Bryant has bought another
pair of the same age that took the first
prizes at the State fair for being we'll
matched and for draft.
Lowell Bailey of North Anson has re-
ceived thoroughbred Plymouth Rock
Observation-Disclosures strain-from Massachu-
sets. He has raised 80 chickens of this
strain this summer and will winter %
hens. nearly one-half of which are full
blooded Plymouth Rocks. He has Just
completed a new hen house 12x30 feet to
be used in addition to his old one which
is 12x20. In the fall he ships his poultry
away and in the winter he ships the eggs.
O. ]. Rogers of Cambridge. has raised
one acre OF oats this season that is wor-
thy of mention. They are of the horse
name variety. a kind not usually grown
here. the seed having come from some
western state. From one seed there grew
five stalks bearing full heads of grain.
two OF them were five and one-half inch
es in length and another seventeen and
one-half The other two heads were fully
as large as these but were accidently de-
stroyed before being measured.
NJ. +. Palmer of Thorndike has a pure
blood oxford Down sheep said to be the
best eve sheep in the New England
states. that dropped a lamb the 18th of
last March. and the last day of Septem-
Der. the next day after she was exhibited
at the North Waldo agricultural fair
gave birth to nice eve lamb that is
smart and doing we'll at the present time
This is not a disagreeable surprise to Mr.
Palmer as he is having sale for all the
lambs he can raise of that kind at Sl5
each at six months old.
Wallace Clark. Sr., of Rumford Falls
has taken three hundred pounds of pure
box honey from six colonies of bees this
season besides about 200 pounds of extract
honey. He has handled his bees so that
he has had only three new colonies come
out this year. Mr.. Clark has been in the
business since 1874 and has experimental
with the Italian and hybrid bees to his
loss and is now keeping the black or
German bee. He sells his box honey in
ID. lots for 20c. per pound and his
strained honey in six pound lots for sl.oo.