Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-23
MAINE FARMING NOTES.

Frank Hanson OF st. Adams. has mn
ished haying. He has cut two hundred
and fifty tons.
Freeman Randall of Morrill,, does quite
4 business in poultry. He now has $50
hens and 100 chickens.
Hudson Sides of Waldoboro. has ~
acres of sweet corn for the factory
which is looking finely.
The AroostOok County Potato Growers
Union will hold the second annual meet
ing thelast week in October.
pm. e. futile OF North Washburn, has
1S4 Colonies of bees. which will give
one and one-half tons of honey this
season.
Mrs. Edward Holland of Rumford
Falls, has made 800 pounds of gilt edge
butter thus far this season. They have
ISfx cows.
The North Hancock Agricultural Socie-
ty will hold their next annual cattle show
and fair at Amherst. on Tuesday and
Wednesday, September 9th and 18th.
Edwin NJ Cook of Friendship. who has
been duck breeding quite extensively the
present season. just shipped 100 to Bos-
ton and has about 800 more to market
very soon.
They raise, quite few raspberries up
in Madawaska, ]. A. Laliberte, Fort
Kent merchant. has shipped 600 half bar
rails of raspberries this season, and ex-
poets TO ship many more.
Frank Benner of Waldoboro, planted
II quarts of peas and got crop of 40
bushels. Arson Benner planted 80
quarts and got so bushels.
A WaldYboro farmer who has 45
years experience at pruning trees, says
that now is the time to cut out the
small limbs and the dead ones
Not discouraged for a moment, L. c.
Griffin of Mapleton. is engaged in turn
ing under some of his most productive
grass land. preparatory for 20 acres Of
potatoes for another year.
f. H. Farnum of Palmyra, shipped a
valuable Hampshire Down buck to Rhode
Island parties recently, for which here
ceived a good price. Mr.. Farnum has
good success in raising Hampshire Downs
and always finds ready market for
them.
Abial Dinsmore of North Wafdoboro,
has a farm of $50 acres, said to be the
best in that locality. He cuts 30 tons of
hay, keeps a cow, two horses. q yoke of
two-year-olds, 20 sheep, 40 hens and a
hog. He has cellar under his barn, Sc
by l5 feet.
]. w. Hussey of West Cornville, Is
engaged in breeding Berkshire hogs.
He now has three brood s0ws from i'm
ported English bred stock, one. Of
which has a fine litter of pigs seine
three weeks of age by her side.
The annual North Aroostook Agri-
cuHurai~fair will be held in Presque
Isle on Sept. II and 10. This fair is
one of the events in the whole year
for residents in Northern Maine and Is
always attended by hundreds of people
from all over the State.
c. r. McCrillis of Palmyra. has a nice
herd of fifteen cows, mostly grade Jer-
seys, and he uses one Of the u. 8. sepa-
rators for separating his cream. The
warm skim milk Is fed to calves which
he buys and fattens for veal. Perry Fur
bush is also using one OF the same kind
Of separators for his herd of fifty cows.
They sell their cream to collectors for
Nye & Everett's creamery at Waterville.
The Presque Isle Star-Herald says:
The rust does not appear to be gain
ing, and 1t Is not now thought that the
potato crop will suffer q any extent
from the blight. Aroostook will have
a frst-ciass crop this season. both in
quantity and quality. and'if fair prices
are realized good times are assured for
the fall and winter.
The Ladd Brothers Of Sebec. three Of
them, believe that farming pays for
the good reason that 1t pays them.
They each own farm and besides
these own three In common. One of
the latter they bought for $110O after
1t had been on the market for years
and the first year took $1,000 worth of
and hay OF from it. They have
sold some hay but keep a large stock
and are increasing 1t so that the
farms do not run out. u
Francis Hilton of AnsonNig u own
er OF fine pair of Hereford 1teers,
three years old in June, which girt
seven feet and eight inches and are