Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-08-07
STATE HOUSE.
Probable Falling Off in Number Of
Horses in the State.
Old Home Week Brings Many Vl.isors 10 the
Capitol.

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assignment of the wild land hearings
for Washington and Hancock counties.
When these hearings have been held
the wild land matters will have been
practically wound up.
The hearings that have been held
nave been public, but some of those
to be held in a short time are for the
benefit of private individuals These
meetings will be held at the Office of
the board in the State House These
are to be assigned for the convenience
of owners who live in kennebec county.
Although kennebec county is not a
wild land county yet there are a great
many owners of wild lands living in
this county and to suit the convenience
of these men special meetings will be
held. These hearings will be given at
times to suit the convenience of the
board and the interested parties.
The bulletin of the State Board of
| Agriculture will be issued the latter
| part of the week. The copy is now in
the hands of the printer. The reports
of the crop conditions is awaited with
a great deal of interest as the drought
in some sections is fearful. IN the
/ Western part of the State the drought
has done great deal of damage and
! the farmers have had hard season. In
| Aroostook county there has not been
| as much suffering from the fact that
| there have been many small showers
! 1t has been rumored that there might
| be a falling off in the berry crop. This
! fear it is believed is groundless from
I the fact that reports recently received
show that the crop will hold up t. the
! standard IT first set.
| Hon. S. w. Matthews. secretary Of
the Maine Old Home Week Association.
was in Portland, yesterday. where he
attended the meetings in that place
| There has not been time for years
when there have been so many visitors
at the State House. one barometer is
the visitors register at the department
OF Inland Fisheries and Game. Al
though but a week Of the month has
passed, yet there are nearly as many
names registered already az dur
ing the whole Of month at
other seasons of the year. There
were over a score of names, Saturday.
and that does not begin to indicate the
| to that department and very many of
those who go do not pretend the regis
ter. While there are always more visi-
tors during the summer yet the in
crease in due largely, it is believed. TO
the Old Home Week In fact. this is
almost self-evident for the greater part
of the visitors are from other states.
but who We're born in Maine.
The last of the Old Home Week
poems and songs are beginning TO pour
into the different departments. Many
are sent To the executive department
and are addressed to His EXcellency.
Coy. Powers. Some of the productions
are good. while others are in the gen
eral line Of verses Of that kind.
Representative w. c. Philbrooll Of
Waterville was at the State House,
yesterday, calling on friends in the
different departments and everywhere.
received that same cordial greeting
that always signalizes his appearance.
The present prospect is that there
will be a decrease il the number Of
horses, as shown by the returns to the
State assessors. proportonate to the
decrease, last year. When the first re-
turn was made after the board was
created, the number Of horses was very
low From that time IN to 1898 there
was a steady gain. Since there has
been a falling of in the number and
the outlook is that, this year, will show
a similar falling off.
In like manner there is a falling off
in, number tho
State. In one Kennebec county town,
that is a distinctive farming commun-
| ity. there were but two yoke of oxen,
| last year, and the same might be shown
of other places in the State. Every
where the oxen are being replaced ~
horses. In 1892 there were 26,6o9 yoke
Of oxen in the State, while last year
there were but ei44. Formerly they
were used wholly in the numbering
but now they are being replaced by the
! horses.
1t is q peculiar thing that as rule
Maine does not use the horses that
are raised in her boundaries The
greater part of the horses used for
the heavy work like numbering come
from the West and are imported into
the State while on the other hand the
dIleHllOl VI tit Ihrtllit il'l ~ ti~NN'N-@
is devoted to raising fine carriage
horses and some trotters, many OF when
have a national deputation. These
horses for the most part are shipped
to other states, as is shown by the
manner in which the horses are sod
to New York buyers who periodically
come to the central section Of Maine
and look for good driving horses.
The executive committee of the Maine
state Grange has arranged series Of
! - field meetings., as follows: Aug. 90
! Caribou Aug u. FoXcroft, Aug. %, Eft
ma camp ground; Aug. %, Z. Machas
camp ground; Aug. "a. Blue Hill Mineral
Springs: Aug. 25, Sycamore Farm, Cam
den: Aug. u, Merrymeetng Park; Aug.
Is, Oak Grove, Vassalboro; Aug. %, Hay
den lake: Aug. 80 f. Livermore fair
ground; Sept. /, Cornish. All viii be ad-
dressed BIZ Hon. Aaron Jones, worthy
master of the National Grange. who is
one Of the ablest and lest eXpounders Of
the principles Of the order Of p. Of H. in
the whole country and his services are in
constant demand for all his time in other
states His coming to Maine this busy
year is great compliment to the patrons
/ of the Ola Pine Tree State. Prominent