Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-02-21
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
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county commissioners of Waldo
county,
An Act to authorize the Bodwell
Water Power Company to generate,
use, transmit and sell electricity.
An Act to authorize the Orono Pulp
and Paper Company to generate, use
and sell electricity.
An Act to authorize and empower
Samuel w. Hanscom of Reed Planta-
ton. county of Aroostook, to erect and
maintain piers and booms in Malta
wamkeag river.
An Act to authorize the Penobscot
Chemical Fibre Company to generate,
use transmit and sell electricity.
Bill. An Act authorizing and em-
powering Joseph c. Powell of Reed
Plantation, county of Aroostook, to
nuild and maintain piers and booms in
Mattawamkeag river
An Act relating to the taking Of
Holsters within three miles of the
islands of Matinicus and Criehaven
during the months of August and Sep
tember of each year.
An Act to extend the charter of the
Bangor and Brewer Steam Ferry Com
pany.
An Act ar1endatory of and addi-
tional to Chapter 142 of the Revised
Statutes. relating to the State Reform
School.
An Act to amend Section III of
Chapter 366 of the Private and Special
Laws of 1857. entitled AN Act to in
corporate the Livermore Falls Water
Company .---- ..-
Resolve in favor of the dairying in
terests of the State of Maine.
Mr.. ALDEN of kennebec:: - Mr.
President. / have devoted a large Part
of my life to the pursuit Of agrieuf-
ture and have for long time made a
special study as to what can be done
by the Legislature of Maine to improve
our condition as farmers.
am aware of the fact that our rural
population is decreasing and that our
farms are running out and depreclat-
ing in value and being abandoned all
over the State. In view of these facts,
we the dairymen of Maine organized
and Incorporated the Maine Dairy
mems Association four years ago. 1t IS
our object to promote the dairy in
dustry of the State and after careful
study and mature deliberation together
with the Commissioner of Agriculture,
we have presented this resolve for
your consideration, and [ earnestly
hope as you prize the welfare of our
State, you viii give it passage. This
resolve is q move to educate our dairy
men in the production of pure milk
and cream and the manufacture of
choice butter and cheese. The re-
suits to be derived from the passage OF
this act will be far reaching. We nave
in this State 10000 cows; ALLOWING
that the milk of 10000 of these COWS IS
consumed by the different families and
the milk from 100000 is manufactured
into butter, we will estimate that they
will average 200 pounds of butter per
COW annually. which would make ~
GOO, 900 pounds of butter pereXe2r.A
believe if the provisions of tAisc re-
solve are carefully carried ouf tt will
be the means of increasing the price
of Maine butter two cents per pound,
which would mean 100000, or allow
ing it to increase the price one cent per
pound. we have the clean sum of $780,
600, for the same product that we are
making today. This amount of money
in clean cash put into the hands of our
farmers will give new life to the dairy
industry l feel proud of the State of
so nobly defended our flag on the field
of battle and of the iliustrious men
who have represented us in the halls
of Congress. but it is humiliating to
me as a dairyman, to acknowledge that
Maine butter on the Boston market is
not up TO the standard of New Hamp-
shire and Vermont butter, and as a rule
will not bring as much by one or two
cents per pound. 1t is a lamentable
fact that the butter from some of our
best conducted creameries is sold on
the Boston market for Vermont and
New Hampshire butter today
This resolve if it's provisions are
carried oft. will place Maine butter at
the front believe, in developing the
resources of our State. The large
amount of money granted to develop
our fish and game industries is prov
ing Il great success and is money we'll
expended. Here is a single branch of
our farming that during the year just
passed has brought far more money
into the State, created it so to speak
right out of the soil, than the most en-
thusiastic estimates have ever claimed
from all the summer boarders and Wis
iting sportsmen combined. Yet the
industry is but just started. 1t can,
with trifling aid, be doubled and quad
rupled on the same land, while at the
same time the land will become more
valuable and the owners will gain in
wealth. There is no one within the
sound of my voice but what knows that
some of the dairy butter that is sold
through our stores is unfit for human
food. and some of it is the cause of in
digestion and sickness. Some of our
best hotels claim that they are unable
to get good butter and are obliged to
use butter of an inferior quality on
their tables. What is the remedy?
How can this condition be changed so
that our dairy products will be brought