The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-09-15
Waldo County Crop Notes.

ny WHICH Ialr pfO1ll Can oe seoulou uHuel
present conditions. The condition OF the
market depends upon supply and demand,
and we can control prices only as we are
able to affect the supply or change the
demand. A few men may be so situated
that they can sell large part of their
produce directly to the consumer and
thus get the benefit of retail prices.
When this can be protitably done, it opens
door to success that should be entered
by those who can supply the demand.
But the most Of the farmers are. and must
remain, dependent upon the wholesale
markets. About the only available way
to better the market is to produce better
grade of goods with which to supply the
demand. Life is too short for learning
everything. The man who can make a
success along three lines of work upon
his farm would be apt to fail IT he should
spread his efforts over thirty different
branches, each of which requires a special
line of work to make it success. Special
efforts, then, should be directed along
those lines for which the man and farm
are best adapted. By pushing the chosen
work for all it is worth, and by a study of
the markets so as to judge intelligently
when to sell, there will come some
measure of success. There is always a
home market for some crop that can only
be grown under exceptional conditions,
but this market will always be supplied
by those who can control the conditions.
We need a larger foreign demand for our
farm products, and, also, better grade
of goods with which to supply the markets
of the world. Names sheep and dairy
products, and her fruit, should be sold
in the world S markets. Enoch G. Dow.
BELMONT | think that tue farmer is
the man that needs the best market for
his produce, and the way to get that
market is to engage the sale of his produce
ahead. Private customers are best if he
can obtain them. Farmers should CO.
operate and fix their own price and not
let the merchant or middIeman get the
riches. The hay crop, l think, should be
kept upon the farm and fed to young
animals, such as good steers, heifers and
young sheep. Good cows will pay as
much as anything in our locality, as We
have good creamery about five miles
distant. If you sell the hay from your
farm, your farm is going back. can see
no other way. Commercial fertilizers
will not bring it to in any way that | can
see, as they have not the natural food in
them that good barn dressing has. Another
way the farmer can improve his market,
is to raise only the best; then when you
get a customer he will stay with you.
Let the farmer have his products in the
best possible shape, put up in neat, handy
packages and he will find market where
great many Of the slack farmers cannot.
L. F. Allenwood
WALDO STATION. Eggs and cream are
the only products that command cash in
our market. There are thousands of tons
of hay in the county, pressed, that could
not be forced on the market at any price.
If the hay could be made into cream it
would sell for cash, and fertility of the
farms would increase instead Of decrease.
Beef cattle, if we had them. would bring
cash. Very few calves are raised, as
making veal generally gives better returns
than making beef. IT, g. Harding.
SEARsPoRT. The local market here,
and village people, take all berries and
small fruit as fast us brought in. .}oston
markets get a great deal Of our hay crop,
eggs and poultry. Our other grains, such
as rye, oats and barley. are consumed
here at home. We think that if the crops
were shipped when harvested and not
held for higher prices, as is frequently
done, it would be much more beneficial to
all There is A very large percentage OF
hay left over this year, owing TO peoples
holding on for higher prices, when they
could have done fairly well had they taken
the price offered and now they could not
get enough to much more than pay the
carriage on the same. Ghos. h, Howe.
Tu0RNDIKE. | think there should be
more alertness shown among farmers in
marketing The grange has accomplish
Il tnr bA Inn * a
large field fol improvement for it to work
i'll yet. The farmers should strive TO
raise a better class of products and market
their own goods. Sheep husbandry offers
the best inducements for good prices at
the present time, with Wool at twenty
cents per pound and an average flock OF
lambs bringing three dollars per head,
stephen J. Coffin.
MoNTVILLE. Next in importance to
stock raising is the finding OF market TO
use up the surplus in the most economical
way. Hay is the chief product; therefore
raise more cows and S .eep to eat the hay
The best way to use the income Of the
COW is to sell cream and milk to the
butter and cheese factories. The keeping
Of sheep comes next in Importance.
Swine will help eat the surplus sweet
apples and other things that farmers have,
and they help dress the soil, and that is
what is needed to keep up its fertility.
Hens pay good sum for the money in
vested, as eggs always sell Each should
be his own Judge as to what branch he
will pursue. There is a greater amount
of clover on old and new seeded land than
usual. From whence came the seed to
produce the same? Top dress literally
and it will produce the same result on old
worn out soil. F. Hahn.
Note. There always seems TO be an
abundance of seeds of various kinds in the
soil only awaiting a favorable opportunity
to spring up. This IS evidently the case
with clover this wear. The favorable winter
and spring started the dormant seed, and
this, with the good growing weather of the
early summer, has pushed it along to the
abundant growth which has been harvested
There is much value in this crop of clover
for the stock feeder and daryman. Its
nitrogen content, if judiciously fed, will take
the place of quite large quantities of pur-
chased nitrogen grains and thereby favor
growth and milk production and cheaper
cost of production.-Se Secretary.
MoNTvILLE. The principal marketable
crops in this locality are hay, grain, corn
and potatoes. The best way to market
the three first is in the form of milk,
butter or beef, and by so doing the fertil-
ity of the farms is increased. Potatoes
are not raised in large quantities in this