Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-10-29
MAINE FARMING NOTES.

A. Jackson of jefferson. raised, this
season, $50 bushels df white carrots.
Alvah Hildreth Of Topsham; has a
pretty pair of steers. three years old.
which he took to Topsham fair. They
We're formerly cwned by Albert Han
son. When they were year old they
took 1915 in premiums. When they
were two years old they took $10.SO,
and this year they took $50.
L. c.. Atwood Of PASSPORT, has this
year at his West End farm raised
about 5000 heads of fine cabbage. The
season Is said to have been particu-
larly favorable for the growth Of this
valuable vegetable: slugs and grubs,
which have in years past been such a
pest an" hindrance to Their growth,
icing almost extinct this season.
r. S. Phillips of Houlton. thinks it
pays to raise wheat. He sowed seven
bushels of the Blue Stem variety or
his farm last spring and has threshed
enc hundred and twenty bushels from
1t. He has sold the wheat at the
HoultOn. Roller Mill for ninety cents
per bushel which paid him over thirty
dollars per acre. Mr. Phillips thinks
no other grain crop on the same land
would have paid as well; besides get
ling a better stand OF grass than any
other kind of grain would have per-
mitted. 80.
E. NJ. Bennett, one of Limestone's
prosperous farmers. is enthusiastic
over that town as relates to its farm
ing lands and claims the best farms
in the country are to be found in that
section. Mr.. Bennett has forty acres
planted to potatoes this year and has
about fifteen acres vet to dig. and the
yield. judging from the amount al
ready dug, will average about 1875 bar
rels to the acre. He sold a car Mon
day for $1.15 per barrel Mr.. Bennett
states that the rot which has so af-
fected the crop in some sections, is
hardly noticeable in Limestone.
Zion Preston of Cherryfield, last
spring, planted potatoes on large
scale. Mr.. Preston has now harvested
his crop. and is well satisfied with the
result. from one hundred bushels of
seed he has harvested 1900 bushels of
good potatoes which are not affected
by rot. He also has 600 bushels of
turnips. which he is preparing to ship
to market; 200 bushels Of grain and 65
tons of hay. His success this year will
no doubt convince. him that farming OH
a large scale is practical as well as pro-
fitable in Washington county.
j. F. Longley is one of Plymouth's
most progressive farmers, owing a very
large farm. the same being exception
ally well-stocked. Mr.. L4Ongley has 43
head of cattle, all Holsteins and all
raised on the farm. Mr.. Longiey stated
Tuesday that he had IS cows, and
that he makes a practice of raising all
his heifer calves. then retaining those
for COWS which he believes will prove
He delivers his milk to the condensed
milk factory at Newport, and is we'll
pleased over the recent advance in
prices made by the factory which he
says amounts to more than he had ex-
pected, would be offered. He does not
hesitate to say that the farmers who
fail now to increase their dairy herds
and the amount of milk they deliver at
the factory cannot be aware of the
amount if good money there is in the
business. Mr.. LOngley is methodical
in mis- conduct of his diary and knows
to a cent what his COWS pay over and
above the actual cost of care and for
their living. He looks to see great
change effected in the dairying inter-
ests in the next few years in this local
ity. and the farmers able to produce
more milk than the factory will be able
to take care of. Not only this, said
Mr.. Longley, hut the advance in the
price paid for sweet, corn is going to.
result in more fodder for the cows.
1t is rather reciprocal in sense.
Where we feed these highly concentra-
ted foods, a. quality Of fertilizer is pro-
duced which grows an excellent sweet
corn. In this way, We can get. a fine
crop Of corn, a good crop of fodder, and
we supply to our cows that which helps
to maintain the flow of milk at a sea-
son when 1t is most desirable.