Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-10-22
MAINE FARMING NOTES.

raised li5 bushels of sweet corn on one
and half acres.
Powers Bros. of Caribou. raised 5000
barrels of potatoes on 60 acres of land
this season. Their potato crop will
give them about $4,000.
One of the interesting sights on the
Atwood farm. PASSPORT. this season
has been a field containing about 1000
! large heads of cabbage.
Frank l.. Dyer of New Limerick.
raised III. barrels Of marketable
potatoes and IS barrels of culls on IL
acres of measured ground.
Jacob Morrill, has the largest fock Of
turkeys that has been raised in Gray
| for years. We understand there are
| one hundred and fifty in the flock.
| \ Belfast correspondent writes:
| The cucumber crop in this vicinity
was disappointment. The farmers
planted for Skilton. Foote & Co. more
acreage than last year and the first
pickings indicated a large crop. but
the drouth came on and the crop was
| blighted. The total yield was about
on. half that Of last year.
Charles Hanson of Gorham, raised
three tons OF herdsgrass to the acre
cutting the same July Is. After letting
the second crop grow 10 weeks he har-
vested one and three-Quarters tons to
. the acre. The grass of the second crop
| grew very rank. measuring four feet
nine inches in height. Total amount
| ra ised. both crops. was four tons and
| three-uuarters to the acre.
At the election of the officers of the
| Piscataquis Agricultural Society held
| recently. the following We're chosen:
Pres ident. W. r. Parsons. Esq: vice
president. John Pullen. Monsoon: VIM.
Doble. Jr.. Milo. J. p. Leland. Sanger
Vile; secretary, II. X. Dinsmore:
| treasurer. c. {. Durham: directors, ID.
+. DinSmore. Dover: W. l.. True Fox
croft; F. ID. Thompson. Sangervillc: H.
@. Snow, Atkinson: L. O. Stoddard
| Guilford; E. T. Morrill,. Sebec: j. F.
Curtis. Abbot; auditor. +. T. Douglass.
Dover.
J. J. Spinney Of Phippsburg returned
! recently With 4 lock of l20 sheep that
he collected up in Somerset county for
Walter f.. Chase. The sheep ar
beauties largely Of the Shropshire
breed. and Mr.. chase. who is much in
| terestei in sheep, adds them IL his
former flock of about 100 on his Phiprs-
burg farm. and now he has over POO, Il
Very big flock for this section. 1t is
Mr.. Chase's plan to keep only superior
stock. and this was Mr.. Sinnoy's
second trip f1r him into one If tn"
hest sheep sections in Maine for the
rur, haee Of high grade animals
silver LAX" creamery Of Belfast. is
having large run Of business this
season and it has handled the largest
amount of cream known in thu history
! Il Il creamery in that city. During the
| last two weeks the cream has dimin-
| i>hed somewhat owing to the dry
weather and the fact that the nourish-
ment in the grass lands is getting low
but the returns are daily growing bet
| ter. The managers Of the creamery
say that during the warmest part of
summer the nome consumption was
very large ana that they sent hardly
any cream out of the State having de-
| mandS from Camden and other places
near at hand for all they could spare
over what they sold for local consump-
| ton.
| w. T.. johnson of Bowdoin, gives the
| following results obtained from spray
ing II have kept Il strict account of
Ihat it has cost me to spray two acres
Of potatoes with bug death and Bor-
| deaux mixture. / have paid for bug
death si.25. blue vitriOl and lime s3.1O
and for applying same $500 The re-
suits are that my potatoes have been
free from bugs all of the time: where
l used the bug death and Bordeaux
mixture once the tops are all dead
| September /. and where it vas used
twice they are showing rust quite bad
| ~. and where ii was used three times
| the are Just as green as they were In
June. on tho Sc sprayed three times
the increased yield will more than pay
the cost Of spraying the whole two
acres. Bug death is the best insecti-
| eide I can find"
| The famous MaySville Ridge has a
record of potato production this sea
son which certainly sustains its reputa-
| ton as the very flower of the farming
neighborhOod. a man Of good. practi-
cal judgment. and familiar with the
crops the different Maysville farmers
| have raised this year. said to the Star
| Herald reporter a few days since that
it would be no eXaggeration to say
| shat the average yield throughout that
| section would be 100 barrels of mer-
| chanta bic potatoes to the acre Fol-
| lowing are some of the bonanza crops
raised in this favored locality. Mr.
! Columbus Hayford. from a field of 2S
acres raised $50 barrels of merchant
| able potatoes; of these he has stored
POO" barrels. MIR. Chas. HuSsey got
| 200 barrels from A. acres: Mr.. Chas
| Hrundagc harvested 1900 barrels from
a acres: Mr.. A. K. Greenlaw got 5000
barrels from s. acres: Mr.. Chas
| folfe had about $500 barrels from
"a Mr. Frank Higgins has not
yet finished digging. but will get
about l5oO barrels from as many acres.
and Mr.. Walter Christy. with a field of
- acres will get 300 barrels-Presque
Isle Star Reporter.
PERHAPS one of the best showings
made thls year by any in that section
win their bees, is rightfully credited
!" r. L. Hutchinson who resides a mile
OF more east Of North Dexter on the