Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-14
AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN. /,
interesting Letters from Hancock
County Farsaers.

County Partners.
BgooKLrN-Oa many of our farms tbs
hay crop Tar exceeded expectations, being
more than last year; In other places the
crop was below that OF last year. The
potato crop IL good. There were but few
beetles and they came late, which is the
| reason so little spraying has been done.
There 10 some rot In places, more
especially sffeeting potatoes not planted
very early. The apple crop Ia this
section will be very light. A heavy
| northwest gale ia July did great damage
to the team crop, des, roying the vines;
a frost about that time also injured the
bean crop mat srisliy. Il. L. COLE.
,BgooKsvILLE-l think there Is more
money IN raising young beef, lambs and
mutton than there Is Ia dsryiDg. We
always have q ready market for all kinds
OF good meat when We do not for dairy
products.
Is there more than one kind of potato
rustg Two. thirds OF some fields are rotten,
" hen they turned yellow and seemed to
ripen ali right. WHAT Is the cause OF so
many rotten posstoeef There were no
bugs and no spraying OF any kind was
done. l.. Z. ROBERTS
NorE-Therc are two kinds OF blight or rust
which infes, pvtatoes one called the early
blisht which l. caused lay the fungu- Maeros-
porfum soioRf, and the other the lats blight,
caused by the fungus Phgtophthor1 In
Juis on early potatoes, a.d Is often very dis
astrous, killing the leaves and stopping the
growth OF the lubers. IL doe not attack the
tubers directly, however, and neysr causes them
to rot.
The second IL the familiar bl ghi or rust
known TO potato grower. In favorable. warm
rainy weather II spreads with great raptdiiy.
The spores or germs falling from the leaves are
washed into the soil where they soon attack the
| tubers and cause them TO rot rnis fungus may
often be seen on the blis htIng leaves rs a white
milirew growing from the under aide of the
Leaf. Frequent and thorough spraying with
Bordeaux mixture, beginning before tue dis.
ease appears, will do much 10 preyept both of
there diseases. The potatoes which you men,
tion are probably affected with the late blight,
which may have beea caused largely by the wet
weather earlier the season commissioners
DEER IsLE-rbe season has been favor
abe for most crops. Potatoes gave q
very large yteld but ripened late end the
| rust struck them 20 that not over fifty per
| cent. viii be saved In most localities,
according to present. indications Where
they wee ACTED early and aug before
| September tue yield was good. Apple
| trees are hesripg very ubesenly, some
heving good crop, Others none. Tue
| crop Ia general will be far below the
average In quantity and Of hardly average
| quality.
know OF no better wsy to improve the
dairy herd than to breed from the best
| ST ock and raise all the best heifer calves.
|
| places are not spt TO do as vel as those
| bred from tquaty good stock at bome.
| l. IL a mistake 10 keep poor STOCK, rs IL
| cJst ar much to fe, d q poor COW as q x ,od
one, ana nil the difference Is Ia be PR It.
| X. 3. WARREN.
| SEDGwIcK--I think tire nest Nay to inn
| prove onF usr! COWS ~ou be TO crose
the jersey with some hardy breed. 1 Il
| rot think tie Jerseys are tough enoug h
| Tor our coz iuters | do not tUink here
Is any rule Tor feeding dairy cows; IL all
| q, psnds ON the COW. 1 have two COWS,
aid tind ihey do net 90 their best on
the same fed. | feed corn meal aud
shorts, giving 10 one Dry Tue other
| does great deal better TO have IL vet 20
she can drink 1t. A. IL. DoRrTY
| Amount uf hsv crop, 80 per cent. Con-
ditIon Of grain. eS pr cent. Conaltiuu oi
| fruit, 20 DER cent Amount OF sppse crop,
| 81 per cent. CobdiEto" OF corn crop: sweet
10 per cent yeiin :, 50 per cent. Acreage
OF corn: Setet, Sc ret CEN; yelioS. 81
per cent. Besus DID tut cuu,e uy .et,,
| and on sccount of late fros;s ann WET 90 q
weather the crop is s-nersitv a tntiur.
| Condition Of the potato crop, SO pr c.,-i
| bordeaux mixture has been used Oh y,l-
tatoes in some sections, with good resu Is
! Private dsirymet are not increasing tAeii
| herds to auy ex eni.