Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-09-07
AROOSTOOK IS HAPPY.
Third Year ol Plenty and Everyone Prosperous
and Contented.

prascue Isle. Ne, Sept. 6.-The Fates
are smiling on Aroostook this year as
,h.y never have in all the past. This
ia the third year of plenty that the
farmers have been blessed with: the
third wear in succession in which the
nroductiveness of the soil has been un-
stinted.
The .pring opened into summer fGiIy
three weeks earlier than usual ana
sunshine has been the rule ever sihce.
TIE farmers planted n larger acreage
than usual because OF the early SpfllS.
There was more wheat sown than ever
and the quality cannot be surpassed III
any quarter of the domain. The yield
viii average fully 80 bushels to the
acre. There are three modern roller
mills in northern AroostooH that VIII
convert the wheat into first class flour
The hay crop is not often eXcelled In
quantity and never in quality that
will Yield the farmer 50 if not $40 ton
a very small item when many cut
more than 100 tons. The haying season
was an ideal one and the great barns
are fairly Sroaning under the pressure
of their burdens of hay that is as clean
and as green i'm color as when it stood
in the field Corn has maturcd and
quite an acreage was planted.
But the great source OF wealth is the
imnense potato crop. The air is full OF
stories that remind one of the days
when lucky strikes We're made in the
gold mines.
One farmer has 30 acres. The othe"
day a man from New York offered him
5000 for the lot. the purchaser TO dig
them out of the ground. The oner was
refused and there is little doubt the
fortunate tillsr of the soil Will realize
sl0.C60-tiVe per cent. on $2oOoCo. The
vas was offered SlGCOo for his farm
last fan and was advised by his friends
TO sell: q level head said no. This year
the whole crop will be worth scarcely
less than sI2. 600. and most likely to
overrun that figure.
Three miles from the village. out or
the Ashland road small farmer pur-
chased the farm adjoining his. small
one. largely on time. This year the po-
tato crop on the place will pay for it
let alone the hay.
One can scarcely learn Of a potato
field that yields less than - barrel.
Der acre Of shipping potatoes and ther.
barrels than under that figure. At tn,
beginning of the season sEe man dus
three and one-half acre; and received
5000 in cash for the potatoes. No won
der the farmers feel like millionaires
There are four small banks in TIL
county and they will bacome the inde:
of Arocstook prosperity when winte
departs.
ta~ ,v,t
in tie soil Of Aroo S. .ook than in any 9Th
er quarter of New England. Her land
have q sub-soil Of an argillaceous com
position that dccompo.es when tut
up to the air and this constantly en
riches and enables the soil to rrwIr
the farmer beyond his expectations
The air is burdened with a higher per
centaee of carhonic acid than is til
case with Counties bordering on the Sc
shore. Carbonic acid is resultant fror
oxidation that occurs from the dcca y
ins negotiation and goes into plant lii
Though the leaf. Aroostook Il singu
larlv exempt from floods, eXtrenl
tlf6nefts and cyclones.
Her lakes are numerous and tee,
With Fish. The great forests that GOV,
liIssst of her square miles are people
with moose. deer and carbon that 81
SufnlmeroCS now that one can Sc2rCe
90 into n wood lot without encounte
ing i moose or deer.
Fair ArOOStook has more schOl1
than any other county save one. in II
state. Give her a normal school locat.
at Plesque Isle. where her own Sol
and daughters can be trained to teac
then her schools will surpass those
any other county,