Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-01-24
MAINE FARMING NOTES..

Frank Harlow of Gorham. mas
shipped from Gorham and Turner to
the West. about 6,000 barrels of apples.
The business of the Skowhegan
jersey Creamery for 1900 amounted to
81. 900 in cash receipts for sales. eX-
&c edng the year before by about
S. coo 1t is one of the established in
stitutions of Skowhegan and a grand
thing for the farmers in that vicinity.
Probably the largest orchardist in
Aroostook county is $. n. Tabor. of
Washburn. He has 1000 trees and 20
varieties. and has raised, this year, ,SJ
barrels of apples, for which he has re-
ceived an average of 81 per barrel. A
road passes through the center of the
orchard. and it presents a beautiful
appearance.
Apple raising has brought some of
the farmers of Wayne very good in
come this winter. T. G.. Jennings had
about 500 barrels, and sold the entire
lot at $3.50 a barrel. A. n. Manter
shipped his entire crop to England and
it netted him $50 barrel. J. NJ
Pike received $1,000 for his crop. A
few are holding back for higher
prices.
Last week Pitman Cook. who is
working for Luman Hayden. hauled
into town and delivered to Messrs.
Parkhurst & Bean, five loads of pota-
tees of the Bliss Triumph variety,
each load comprising forty barrels
I he five loads averaged $50 load,
netting the owner $500. This is prob
ably the largest returns for five loads
OF potatoes of which there is any
record here.-Presque Isle Star Herald.
Sewell Austin of Norway believes
| that the best paying thing on the
farm is the poultry. He has always
raised ordinary sort of hens till the
past year. Last spring, he invested in
a dozen fancy Plymouth Rocks and
| during the summer raised a hundred
| chickens. He gave them all they
wanted to eat. and the result was that
| he didn't have occasion to drive them
away from scratching in the garden.
| He had lot of six-pounders to sell in
| the fall. This winter a flock of sixteen
| choice pullets are laying a dozen eggs
a day right through the severest
weather.
The outlook seems especially good
| that the farmers will apply for all the
acreage possible for the corn shop to
| handle at an earlier date than was the
case last year. Already the corn shop
here has booked an acreage in excess
| Of what had been accomplished last
| year at this time. This appears to be
sufficient in view of the fact that the
superintendent has not yet invited any
one to sign for acreage and the agita-
| ton that was going on at one time last
| fall for the purpose of advancing the
| price of corn delivered at the factories
The farmers have undoubtedly given
the subject some sober reflection. They
| have compared the returns received
from The crop with those of other crops
and have learned that at prevailing
prices ii is still one of the most profit
able crops grown. Perhaps a few of
them have learned that the chemical
| analysis Of corn stalks indicates that
| the fodder is superior in its component
parts to timothy hay. They may have
taken into consideration the value of
| the fodder as we'll as the cash return.
They may have considered the fact
that to advance the price of their crop
u tiie idctoIy, over ID 10 per cent, is
quite an advance for a business in
which there is little competition and
much more so in one where there is
So much, as in the case of the packing
of sweet corn. Names crop does not
control the market now as it did once
and for this and other reasons above
cited it is undoubtedly dawning upon
the minds of those who investigate
that ii is better to hang to a good
thing than to bank on an uncertainty.
Eastern Gazette.