Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-25
MAINE FARMING NOTES.

l.. c. Cummings of Prospect, has
| lost several swarms of bees, this win
ter. The cold snap in December did
| them up.
Geo. Frost of Pittsfeld, has four
cows and one two-year-Old heifer that
produced 171S pounds of butter from
Jan. l, 1902, to Jan. 1, 1908, besides
furnishing the milk and cream used in
family of four.
Fully IS per cent. of the farmers
who have sprayed their potatoes in
past years say the spraying has ever
so much more than paid for itself.
The enterprising farmers Of Aroos-
| took are this spring making prepara-
| tions to spray more than ever before.
| An effort is being put forward by
! the farmers in Columbia Falls to
start creamery in that town. 1t is
proposed to begin the industry with
| 150 cans. and a canvas will shortly be
| made of the town and adjoining ones
with the view of getting the number
subscribed.
| VIM. H. Manter of East New Sharon
| is wintering 90 head of horned cattle,
all Herefords. and he is also Winterins
| so sheep. He has 25 early lambs. His
| is enc of the best fiockS of sheep in
| town. Mr.. Manter has one thing
| that few farmers can boast ola pump
! in his barnyard 65 years old; the wood
| is hackmatack. Mr.. Manter bought
| last fall a manure spreader which
cost him $105 delivered at his place.
In many ways, Bowdoinham ranks
| as the banner town of Sag2dahoc
county. During the present year,
80 carloads of apples have been sent
away, 1000 tons of hay have been
shipped. and 80 Bowdoinham farmers
go to Bath once a week, each one
| averaging SIS a load on his sales.
| Amasa Williams gives the average as
$4,000 a year, on fish taken from the
Kennebec and the small rivers near
| by.
About ESQ trees have been tapped at
East Rumford by Mr.. Virgil Abbott,
and the clear sap is being reduced to
saccharine maple syrup. Mr.. Abbott
| follows the old-time methods of boilin'
down, dipping from pan to pan, rath-
| er than employing patent evaporators.
The annual yield of his orchard is s.
gallons or more, and already with but
three days or less of boiling he has
| secured Is gallons of syrup. Mr.. Alb
| bolt succeeded his father in the syrup
| business. The present sugaring off
| house-a log camp-was built &c years
| ago, when Mr.. Virgil Abbott was a
| boy. Before that, his father "boiled
down. in the house.
1t is we'll worth ones time to visit
Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus P. Curtis home
on Norris Hill in Monmouth where
you at all times receive a hearty well
come. First that will attract your at
| tention is the order and neatness of
their home within as we'll as without
Then go to the commodious COW barn
| where 30 or more Jersey cows, be-
sides young stock are kept, that look
as sleek and clean as a gentlemans
driving horse. Their dairying room is
about 20 feet square, nicely sheathed
and painted and has stove and
water tank in the room. Here is
cream separator, revolving churn and
butter worker. all run by a gasoline
engine that is in another small room
made expressly for the engine Every
thing from the care and milking of
the cows to the moulding of the but
ter Is OIL tue highest OIueF OIL neat
ness. Most of Mr.. Curtis's butter is
sold in Lewiston, and his method is an
object lesson.
The gardeners who are engaged in
strawberry culture in the Machias
valley, report that the plants have
wintered unusually well and that
large crop of berries should be gath
cred the coming season should favor
able conditions continue until picking
time. Stephen Hadley, the leading
strawberry grower of Machias, last
year doubled his acreage of plants
and expects to gather 5000 quarts of
berries this season as the new plants
should bear fruit this year. From
his plants last year he picked $500
quarts of berries, and as he found
ready and profitable market for them
at home he decided that it would be
profitable to raise the berries on a
larger scale. Mr.. Hadley has been
extensively engaged in the cultivation
of these berries for several years past
cultivation of raspberries and black
berries. His efforts in this direction
will be mainly experimental at first,
but if satisfactory results are attained
he will cultivate them extensively as
he now cultivates Strawberries.
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