Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-07-17
STATE HOUSE.
Hay Crop Will Not Be Less
than IS Per Cent.
Carnival Of Moose Killing in Aroos'
took County.
Commissioner Matthews Talks on Inc
Granite Industry.

| - nv" NCsClopS tlieiL Si'N NioP'
of the Maine farms for the present yea
Will be effected to a more or less extent
by the great drouth of the past spring
the extent of the damage VIII not reacf
lanything like the magnitude which ha:
been predicted, with the exception o.
the sweet corn crop. This last has beer
very seriously damaged, but there i:
levery reason to believe that other crop:
will not show n very great shrlnkagt
! from the totals of what they have beer
in preceding years. commissioner O.
Agriculture Gilman was feeling very
well pleased at the outlook for the crops
of the State when seen by Journa
reporter on Thursday morning and ex-
| pressed himself as being very hopeful
a 10 what tn. cror would prove wher
| they hid been housed, SO favorable
hive ,eee the reports which have
reached the office since the last bulle-
| Tin was issued in June
| At the time the bulletin was issued
he department could not figure out
| rom the reports received from different
parts of the State, how the harvest
| could show more than So per cent of ar
average hay crop. But on Thursday
Commissioner Gilman stated that il
was perfectly safe, taking reports from
the same sections rs a basis, to predict
that the hay crop this year. with the ex-
ception of Waldo county, would reach
ut least 70 per cent of the average In
Waldo county there was every reason
% believe that the crop would be a full
hundred per cent, so we'll had the grass
come along.
He attributed the change in the stu
alton to the weather which has pre-
vailed for the past two or three weeks
It has been damp and hot said he, and
hat has caused the hay, as well as other
'rops, to grow rapidly and the result is
that the grass has made a marked gain,
Of course the harvesting sea son is two
weeks later this year than usual as a
consequence of the drOuth of the spring,
but a continuance of the present warm.
lamp weather the commissioner be-
ieveS that the hay crop will come very
1early up to what it is in average years.
OF the corn crop planted late for silos
here need be no fear, says Mr.. Gilman.
t was a bit backward in starting, by
reason of the dry condition of the earth,
out since the present climatic condi-
ions began has taken new courage and
s making great strides. The late fields
rive evidence of good yields
While the sweet corn crop will not
>e complete failure, it will be very
mall, probably not more that so per
ent of what it is in average years.
This product is much more tender, feels
an injury quicker and retains the effects
longer than do most others, which ac-
counts for the havoc which the drouth
has played with it,
From all around come reports of the
good outlook for the potato crop, while
t seems certain hat there will be a
treat yield OF grain and straw in Maine
his fall.
In conclusion, Mr.. Gilman says that
III reports received by his department
10 to Thursday morning showed that
he farmers all over the state We're
ceiling much encouraged at the outlook,
rom what they did three or four weeks
go.
Reports which have come into the fish
md game department indicate that
here is n regular carnival of moose
Killing up in AroOstook county. AL
eady there have been received ut the
department, information of the killing
If % moose the present year. This in
,ludes bull COW and calf moose and the
fact does not tend to make the commits
iioners feel any two friendly to men
who are caught violating the laws and
makes them determined to ferret out
and punish the ones guilty of killing
these animals.
The last case of this kind to be re-
ported came to the commissioners on
Thursday morning, when n prominent
business man of the county wrote in,
telling of a case when he had found evil
lence in the woods that Il moose had
been killed very recently.
These reports which the commission
ars are receiving on these matters come
not only from the WardenS who are
cruising in that part of the State, but
rom guides who are friendly to the
game laws, believing that they are for
their interests. and who desire TO see
any one who shall violate them, pun
ished and business men whose inter-
ests call them into the woods.
1t is not so very long ago that Aroos-
| took county was counted a fairly good
territory so far as poaching is con-
cerned, but Commissioner Carleton says
| that it is now the worst one which they
| have to contend with.
On Thursday word was received by
Commissioner Carleton from Warden
Fl. o. Templeton, who works on the
| Moosehead region, that he had ar
rested o. E. Bauber of Northeast
Carry and taken him to Dover, where
he was arranged before Judge Edgar
c. Smith of the municipal court of
that place on the charge of having a
deer in his possession in violation of
the law. Bauber was fined $40 and
costs. amounting to $40 in all. On
payment of the costs the mittimus
was suspended and Bauber~allowed to
go. during good behavior, without
paving the fine.
This man was formerly a registered
guide in the State, but, from informa-
ton which came to them, the COM
missioners refused TO give him a
certificate this year.
In oil Maine il would be difficult to