Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-24

cent. Acreage of corn, 1902 per cent
The acreage of potatoes will be some
| what increased this season. Condition
of small fruit, II per cent. Blossom of
| fruits: Apples, 103 per cent; plums, 81
per cent: small fruits, SS per cent. Corn
in the leading ensilage crop One cor
respondent reports a trial of japanese
millet. with good results.
The principal part of the Bulletin is
devoted to the discussion of silos and
ensilage, and from the recent pro-
| tracted drought the commissioner
draws a lesson when he says: I'VE
believe it is now thoroughly established
/ that the silo, when properly con-
| struced, and when the ensilage is cured
and stored in the right manner, Is a
most useful adjunct to the farm. No
| farmer who is giving his business pro-
per attention can overlook the import
ance of the silo. There is no way of
| farming which is so successful as stock
raising. AS soon as a man begins to
lessen his flocks and herds, he begins
to narrow his farming operations.
Stock hushandry in some form is
essential to the greatest advancement
of the farm and one Of the best ways
| of keeping up the fertility of the soil.
and the silO is of much assistance i'll
stock feeding. 1t is not safe to depend
upon the hay and grain crops, especi-
ally in dry seasons like the present, and
the farmer must have something that
he can fall back upon to carry his
stock through the winter. EnsilaSe Is
4 very desirable cattle food. Being
succulent and palatable, it comes the
nearest to pasture feed of anything
that can be fed. The COW does best
upon June pasture, and the use of en-
silage will convert January to June.
Farmers who have been feeding ell
silage for term of years are nearly
unanimous in their opinion that when
we'll cured it is one of the best cattle
foods, and the stock will prefer it to
any other food"
Many queer letters are received by
Governor Hill. Here is one which
came, yesterday, from the northern
part of the State. In spite of the utter
absence of punctuation marks and the
general incoherence of the writer's
broken English, it was not difficult to
gather that he wants to be game
| warden, and he was referred to Com
missioner Carleton:
| Dear Friend
1T is today that I write to you to
asked you to send me on apolntement
to KEEP the Moose the dear the rabet
and the crow that make damage in the
field and the bear to keep this as far as
| the little CONNIE big answered me as
| soon as you could if you don't want
| kepe you animal and the fish and the
seller BLOSSOMS there are many time that
| write to all governor and to you and
l have not received any answered but
| this time want an answered in one
| maner or other or KEEP your animal"
superintendent Stevens has in mind
| some extensive changes and improve
| ments on the Capitol ground on the
north and west sides of the building.
The city is to make improvements on
State street and Capitol street, border
| ing on the State House grounds, put
| ting in crushed rock and making them
! as good as State street is on the rest OF
it's length. Work on this will begin at
| once. 1t is the plan to have fine
driveway from Capitol street to the
laid out and constructed and bordered
by curbng or cobble cutters. mat
part of the Capitol grounds will also
| be improved in appearance in other
| respects. Colonel Stevens hoped that
the driveway could be made OF
macadam, but Alfred H. Johnson or
Boston, representing the firm of war
rem Brothers Company, who was at the
Capitol yesterday, to look over the pro-
posed changes, did not care to figure on
| the job as it was not large enough tp
warrant the setting up of plant mere
to make the material. The driveway
will probably be of crushed rock ana
| tar, though some other material may
be selected.
The hearings which the fish ana
game commissioners had arranged for
| this week have been postponed to next
week. They will be at Northwest river
Sebago lake, for a hearing next Mon
day, June 20, and at Bridgton, Tues
day, June 30. They also have hear
ing arranged to be held at kineo
! July Z, ION the matter of rules and regu-
lations for Parlin stream and its tribu-
taries.
The following new corporation filed
its certificate of organization, yester-
| day:
The Washaway Manufacturing Com
pany, organized at Kittery for the pur-
pose of manufacturing washing
preparations, with $4,000 capital stock