The Portland daily press., 1899-08-10
AGRICULTURAL DAY.
Lectures of Interest 10 Tiiisrs of son al
sfartha's Grove.


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Martha's Grove, Frysburg. August o.
"0oing. going. gonsi" These were the
magic words which announced that an
auction was In progress In front OF the
Grove House. this afternoon. A little
story IA connected with said auction.
Last year tine faculty" OF the summer
school sseing whas dilspidatsd structures
sIme cf the school tuildings In the town
were, schemed TO raise money for a new
building. A special entertainment was
given and an auction sale of seats was
held. Both created unlimited fun, and
this year the same programme was fol-
lowed. The special features Of the enter
tsinmsnt ere kept profound secrets. The
i Of seats vas a great success. for the
biddog was piritSd and Yric3s ran high.
This has pten Agricultural Dsy and
lee ures of special interest to farmers,
have lean given. Mr.. Harvey, who is tire
ssats hots ist ami Ia also o-nnnsctd
with the experiment stating at the y al
vsrsiiy of Maine, talked this morning on
zone Hundred Common Weeds" MIR.
Harvey began his lecture by describing
The various ways in which weeds (Which
he dsaned as ! kits out of pla.e) were
distributed over the surface of the earth.
While some of thsse msshods, such as
wiud-s3attering, were perfectly familiar
to his hearers, other days were very
novel. One would would hardly imagine
for instance, that seeds would be trans
ported from one, country to another, in
the earth which is used as ship ballast, or
in the hair OF animals.
MIR. Harvey referred TO many plant
enemies of our farmers, and illustrated
his talk with large nu nbsr OF pressed
pscimens. he le Iture CLOSED with a des.
oriptio of several practical methods of
Kidding onr cultivated fields of these
weeds.
This afternoon Mr.. Harvey lectures on
''S5me Com nsn In6estz
There is more bicycle riding .on the
grounds this year than ever. tefore, and
an excellent path has been worn beside
/. the sandy road by many rubber tires.
A fiue collection OF water color sketches
is new on exhibition In the hotel par,o-,
by Mr.. b. 4. Newman. MIR. Newman
has mafs a a special study of the beauti-
fui places in this vicinity, and he has
shcwn with remarkable ACCURACY, the
lights and shades OF these mountains,
whioa are 20 alluring and SO elusive.
These exhibitions have now become quite
feature Of the nssemh bly,.
tSaturday of this week Is to be Woinen's
Club day, and an exceedingly interesting
programme Is promised.
Mrs. Florence G. Porter, of Caribou,
president of the state federation, win pre-.
side, and among other speakers will be
Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd, of Amherst.
Mrs Todd's lectures are looked forward
to by all. for she is speaker who has
had abundant opportunity TO see the
places whereof she speaks. Mrs. Todd
was member Of the famous Amherst
exposition which went to Japan In 1SD8
and Witnessed the total eclipse in Ainu
land, among the strange and tarnarous
a6orignes Of Japan, in region never
before Waited by foreign woman.
Last evening lecture on "The Ideal
City, was given by Mr. Robert Woods, of
the South End house, Boston, and MIR.
Henry Kearn, a member Of the Bath
Commission of Boston. This lecture was
Illustrated by pictures taken from yari-
GUS parts of the world and the lecture
did not deal exclusively with Boston,
though as Mr. Woods said, some people
thought that was the city to which the
title referred. 4