Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-20


tented with his business and gives up 4
business that is safe and rush into some
thing new. | believe that the farmer
that is well established in the dairy bus
ness should think twice before he decide
to exchange il for other ventures that
he may think will pay better
Therefore think the board of agri-
culture should keep in mind this fact and
while enc ouraGinS the animal industry
10 hold in check this tendency.
The second speaker was JohnJ. Fry
Of Portland, who spoke on The Maj
kct Outlook for Maine Crops" and who
said
1T is with pleasure that am here and
TOOK INTO your faces and Clasp %ouf
hands. He reviewed the market, quot
ing the prices farm products are selling
for at present. He spoke of the Guant-
ties of butter which are being made in
Michigan. New York Massachusetts
Vermont and Maine, and the way Maine
butter failed to score at the last butter
iair. He hoped that in the near future
there would he another fair held in Port
land and that samples from MaSsachu-
sets and Vermont would be eNhihtted
and that comparison would be made TO
see if Maine butter was coarscr in tex
turc.
He read the following statistics from
the Grand Trunk Railroad freight rec
ords:
Up to Jan. ~. there have been II Euro
pean steamers in Portland which have
taken carGoes from the elevators. Dur
ing the rest of this month and next.
there will he u more steamers there.
making total of b large steamers dur
ing the months of January and febru-
AIRY. Ten of these steamers have cold
storage cars.
During 1857 there was shipped to
Europe from ortland, f.1i6,S," bushels of
wheat. 5000 bushels of peas. ~. .i06
bushels OF barley. l4621l bushels of
oats and $4,000 bushels of corn. During
the same year there was imported into
Maine for local consumption. 31Alo bush
els of wheat. 50. 40 bushels of barley ..
100000 bushels of oats. 2"6S. 300 bushels of
corn and 1S5, $50 barrels of flour. In view
OF these figures he urged that the farmers
be persuaded to raise more of the neccs
sarics.
Nahum Hinkicy of Bluehill, WAS the
next speaker, talking on What New
Organizations Are Needed ry Maine
Farmcrs?'
He said:
The farmers need To perfect some plan
whereby they can find some cash mar
kct for this products and increase their
business The dairy needs lust cpnsidcr;t-
u"h. IT The farmers situated upon a rail
road or daily steamer line would select
some one ot their number ahov" the aver
age Intelligence and organize they c"uld
80 iillii ~ receive lllt cream ANA manu-
fHcturC ii OF els" hay" him ship it 10 Somr
creamery. ii would be At great boom IA
TIA" farmers Offering Inducements to
raise good stock. Some prominent butter
dealers of Boston find great difficultN in
dspusiuS of Maine butter hocausc at
some time poor butter has been shipped
from here. Ilr remedy is to educate the
farmers up To be \ No. / butter markers.
clean up the bushes if there is Il lack of
feed and TINS obtain new grasses. Some
old iiCldS can be seeded down to add
NtntaG" for feeding grounds. 1T is Il very
poor plan to attempt to deacon your dp-
pies. potatoes. cream. or butter.
The trad" is demanding an improve
mcnt iii the cream supply, calling for
separator cream both for family and
mdnutdCt urinS purposes
should advise the same co-"pcrdtion
plan to be carried into raising and mar
ketinG crops Each farmer carrying hi5
crops to the agent chosen who will pack
them with the products of "thct farms
and snip them to the best market. 1t
would he best to designate On" or more
DAYS in th" week on which /" carry the
produce to the station.
II no fair is held in the vicinity IN"
farmers should organize and have fair.
\ feature that ought 10 be INTRODUCED at
he fairs is an auction of stock and cat
tie. by which means. buyers can accomp-
lish in few hours what would other
wise TAX" days to do and each member
would have an equal opportunity of dis
posing of their stock.
announcements in Fair Manacenent.
'N W. ~ iiuH'"h - i'N"''i'''"' va N'H
interesting He said:
1,,.ro Ia. nuvcr he.n . tim. when fair
,.,,,,ron,.nt no.. hccn t.Il,od uvnr 50
ti,,,,ni1,hi, -, Tho ,.onln as il, Tho mast
wa ana ra,rret ~ say that il w;,s
needed A fair originally meant IL cattle
show: today. Il fair means most any
thing else IN many Localities. Cisiu!liE
II u 'a0 81 va @ ntirnlv mnpapcd jr
the producers.
Farmers nave noticed ulSpoSll}ph 81
;',,,.S,n3 =, Nv. ,ri,r,, ana nrnducts OF
The farm. People attending fairs would
prefer I" see q stfdlshi AEflcult l! i"'r
~ ~, "" ~. ' ~ S'irr,,sas
There is not d fair in tn" State that mas
adhered more closely 70 tne 'ilLeS "i ,iiS1i-
'in,,,S,,. f.ir Thay have = spoech every
wear on the grounds on some agricultural
subject. ana 1t - the oiiE one III ttr