Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-02
STATE HOUSE.
Departments Closed at Capitol
During Yesterday.
Only Few Appointments to State Office
to Be Made This Year.
agricultural Bulletin for Third Quarter
Soon to Be Issued.

Soon to Be Issued.
t. yesterday, being Labor day. the va
nous State departments were closed
during the day. The officials and the
clerks took a day off and the big STONE
building was practically deserted save
the employees in the department nra-
sided over by Col. E. c. Stevens. They
are always on duty, nights. sundays
and holidays.
On FRIDAY of the present week. Gov
ernor Hill Will be called upon to make
another batch of appointments. Most
CT the appointments which he will
make at this time will be justices of
the peace and the like. Only one i'm
portant place will be filed. and that
VIII De the vacancy on the State Board
oil Legal Examiners. There are five
members of this board, and the term of
one member expires every year.
Thomas l.. Talbot of Portland, ends
his first term this month, and it is I'M
derstood that he will be renominated
on Friday, as there is no opposition to
him. The other members of the board
are Leslie {. Cornish, Augusta, John
a. Morrill,, Auburn, Matthew Loughlin.
Bangor, and John B. Madigan, Houl-
ton.
There are few other important an
pointments 10 be made during the re-
mainder of the year The terms of
office OF the following State officers will
expire between now and Jan. 1: l.. d.
Carver, State librarian, Oct. IS: Ed
ward Il Roberts ~
board of examiners in the practice of
dentistry, Nov. 10; Charles e. Atwood.
Inspector of workshops, factories.
mines and quarries, Nov. %; S. w.
Carr. insurance commissioner. Dec. 30;
Clarence V. Emerson, clerk Lewiston
municipal court. Oct %; Herrick c.
Davis, Judge of Norway municipal
court, Nov. 90; Horace H. Burbank
judge of Saco municipal court, Nov. 90.
Returns from corporations are COM
ing in fairly WELL The law provides
that on Sept l of each year the fran
chise tax must be assessed against all
corporations organized under the laws
of Maine. In a short time the Board
of State Assessors will assess the taxes
against each company, and the State
of that the taxes are due. About $685.
year 1901. but it is expected that the
collections will exceed that sum for
this year.
The bulletin of the agricultural de-
partment for the third quarter of the
year will be issued during the present
month. Commissioner Gilman is send
ing out queries upon the subject of
stock raising. which will be the prin
cipal topic handled in the coming is
sue In his circular letter to farmers
he says:
We shall call our readers attention,
in this number of the Bulletin, to the
important subject of stock raising. 1t
is q well recognized fact that stock
husbandry, in some form, is essential
to the permanent success of the farm.
The farmer should consider carefully
the kind of stock best adapted to his
farm. and from which he can obtain
the best returns at prevailing prices,
the best methods of raising that stock,
etc. The day of the general purpose
animal has passed. The farmer, in
these days of rapid progress and sharp
competition, cannot hope to make his
business remunerative unless he makes
use of those animals that are specially
adapted to the line of work in which
he is engaged, and employs economical
methods in raising and feeding them.
I'VE would ask our correspondents
to give us their experience and ideas
along whatever line of stock raising
they have been pursuing. Please state
whether you have been raising the
dairy or beef type of cattle. and what
breeds you would recommend for
Maine: what breed of sheep you are
| raising. how they are treated and with
! what success; with what branch of the
family horse you have had the most
success-the gentlemen's driving horse,
| the draft horse or the all-around busl-
| ness horse: what breed of swine you
| regard the best for the production of
| good pigs which will dress 10 or 200
| pounds at an early age. your method
| OF feeding, whether you think whole
| corn or meal will produce the most
| hounds of pork: and any other points
| in relation to your particular line OF
| stock raising which may present them
H sleeves to you.
Il 1--WE would also ask you to give your
y careful attention to the following ques-
Il lions in relation to the crops in your
H vicinity. making your replies as accu-
II rate as possible. We will endeavor to
H answer all questions you may ask.
i Commissioner Gilman also asks IN
| formation on the following subjects
and the replies are to give the per cent
in every case:
Give amount of hay crop, as com
pared with average; condition of grain
condition of fruit: amount OF apple
crop as compared with last year; con
dition of the corn crop. sweet and vel
low. acreage of corn, sweet and vel
low; condition of the potato crop; ma
rust appeared on potatoes. and If so a
what stage of the crop; have potatoes
been sprayed with Bordeaux mixture
and if so with what result; have an!
new fungicides or insecticides beef
used. and if so with what results.
The replies must be received by TIL
secretary of agriculture on or befor'
/ Sent TO-