Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-21


they are then placed in shallow ponds
Tor further development.
SMALL FARMS.
Speaking of the size of the farms, she
said that the owner of an acre was Il ma
bob, and the average holding is much
smaller. One-SiNth of an acre Will sup
port Il farmer. and she told of a onc-acre
farm. which had attracted her interest.
1t supported its owner and his wife. his
aged father and mother and two chill
dren, producing everything they needed.
Even their clothing was woven by the
wife. Upon the death of a farmer. his
landed estate is divided among his sons,
the eldest getting one-tenth in addition
to an equal share of the remainder, this
excessive share being allowed to enable
him to bear the expenses OF the proper
worship Of his ancestors.
Comparing the enforced pruductivenesS
of the soil OF China with that of the Uni
ted States, Mrs. Edwards said that the
tilable soil of New York, producing i'll
like proportion. with its returning quail
ity reduced one-half by reason of the diff
ference Of climate, would support the en-
tire population of the United States. and
the arabic land of the United States thus
considered would support population
of two billions or the entire population
Of the world. Industry and economy are
the cardinal principles of the Chinese
farmer, and this was the lesson Mrs.
Edwards desired In particularly impress
upon the practical farmers in the audi
ence.
Miss Edith Thomas of Council Bluffs.
was on the proera mme for a reading. and
gave us one in Scotch dialect. which was
good and well received.
Next came Prof. Shaw, with Il lecture
on Value of Forage Crops The queS-
ton of forage crops he characterized as
the question of all questions TO the farm
er. Dairymen, growers OF meat, ana I'll
crS of the soil are alike Interested IN FOR
age. In his opinion. the question OF a
gold or silver standard dwindled into in
Significance in comparison with II.
No country in the world is favored as
is the United States in the abundance
and variety of its forage crops. They are
legion and ii would take a book to tell
Ibout them. Taking them up hastily,
however, Prof. Shaw managed to cram u
good deal of information about good
many of them into the limits of Il TWEEN
" minute paper.
With Il few words about corn, he
passed to sorghum, reIparking that 1t was
strange that 1t took the American farm
er thirty years to find out the best use
for sorghum as forage. Then came the
non-saccharine sorehums. the clovers.
alfalfa and the various kinds of peas.
Speaking of the so called Canadian field
pea. Prof. Shaw said that there We're
sections of the United States where two
bushels of this pea could be raised to one
for the best pea producing Canadian soil.
Within 8: few days in Montana, he had
counted 1872 pea pods upon one vine. a
marvellous production. Then he took up
the rape plant. Some years ago, when
but coo bushels of rape was raised in the
tinted States, he had predicted that the
time would come when 100000 sheep
and lambs would be fattened upon rape
in the United States. and the prediction
was repeated. He said that today there
is probably 100000 acres of rape growing
and no less than a million sheep and
lambs are feeding upon it
SHEEP RAISING.
This led the professor to the subject of
sheep, and he deplored that the industry
of sheep raising is made 50 little of in
should be. Canadian sheep TO the num-
Der of two hundred and fifty thousand
are being annually imported by way of
Buffalo. in the face OF the high duty. and
Canadian mutton is advertised in New
York.
This market might be in the possession
Of >the farmers of the United States.
Passing rapidly along with his subject.
he referred to the millets, rutabagas, tur
nips artichokes. peanuts, the common
cereals winter rye, and spoke highly of
Il mixture of wheat. oats. barley and
spring rye Drawing Il further illustra-
ton as to sheep raising from his own
experience. Prof Shaw said that four
years ago when he came here, he was
told that sheep could not be raised at a
profit in Minnesota, and those who made
The statement really believed it. He
said he wished the delegates could see a
fen-acTe piece Of ground at the experiment
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