The Republican journal., 1904-04-21
Tiff GARDEN OF MAINE.

.g- STATISTICS OF AROOSTOOK
DCY. THE GREAT REGION
.-vERSFD BY THE BANGOR &
l.@I0OK R R.
t Maine potato section trav-
tle Bangor x ArooStook Rail
which hundreds of cars of
seed stock go out to supply
-re OF other sections, was never
SHY pictured than in recent
.Ierald story by Winfield NJ.
,-.U. from which we quote as
crop OF potatoes valued at
. Aroostook county, Maine,
rr standard as the banner
Immunity of New England
arm down east" of colloquial
is here as good as d mine in
m it brings its owner.
are produced year after year
failure, and without great vari-
.j every year the farmer peck
m 30 to 50 per cent. on his in
from his potatoes alone.
me farm, perhaps the richest in
AToostook, last year, $4,000
# crops were taken from the
.. s4fch sum was just the cost of
i-u to its present owner the year
IT, 1t had paid for itself in one
TIE potato KING
ltostook has the most prosper
-m3ll farmers in the world,' said
H.- II. Phair of Presque Isle,
totato king of Maine. Amy
who comes in here and works
..I.s sure of a liberal return for his
Crops never fail here. The
.me the farmer fails to realize
c-turns from his crop is when
parts of the country produce so
potatoes that there is no outside
at. Even then the farmer suffers
a>s for we grind the potatoes up
arch, and enough is realized from
F to pay for time and expense of
ears when there is a fair outside
.n,r the Aroostook farmer realizes
.lrfage of 800 an acre from his
.-'es. A conservative average Of
Ind planted per farmer is 20 acres.
cost OF planting. hoelng and Dig
.etat0eS is bout S25 an acre.
-Ives d profit of 81. 800 as the net
Ut planting a 20-acre patch of
'.-s
mall farmer in the most bounti-
-u Of the West can get so great
y return from his land as this.
as, corn, a staple crop, in good
reduces a net income OF 511.96
acre or 800 bushels at 40 cents
.. III Kansas is worth about so
e. The average yield of corn in
ted States for 10 years has been
lShels an acre, worth $3.50.
nStook leads the country in the
it gives the tiller of the soil. In
West the farms are very large, and
r.y cases are conducted by men
no not work on their own land.
took is a region Of comparatively
.u places. The farm of more than
ores is the exception. The labor
e farmer proprietor, with man
Wo to help in the summer, carries
e place.
AREA AND SETTLEMENT.
I'd England prevailed in a boundary
te settled in the early forties by
'tmeI Webster, the greater part of the
rule st. John valley now in ARGOS
o's would have become part of New
i.4lsWick.
TIE st. John river makes wide
ri eastward curve around the present
Hi-t of Maine, and within that curve
lie fertile lands of the Aroostook
F.ulng region.
r extent of the cultivated area in
'"ostook is comparatively not great.
county has an area of $500 square
. rs about that of Massachusetts,
N1ut Cape Cod-but only $50, 900 of
J. ]52, 900 acres are included in the
waited strip, from 10 to 80 miles
Ie along its eastern border. The
900 acres of land in the county
u a wild state would make plots
5out six acres each for every per
IN Maine.
- taking up of Aroostook lands
Aeen going on steadily though
y for the past 30 years.
migration has been from many
.ers. Some of it is from the Dor
e. for the New Brunswick farmer
-e that political and economic con-
toms on the American side of the
are productive of greater prosper.
r. 'uan those Oh his side.
'Ider farming communities in New
leland have sent settlers, and still
'lhels are from over seas. One of the
Aost prosperous sections of AroostOok
New Sweden, model colony, settled
& the early seventies by immigrants
elected in Sweden by Hon. w. W,
-homas, afterward U. S. minister to
'Teden.
This colony has thrived beyond the
ondest hopes of it's founders, and its
,ettiers are, comparatively speaking
ich men.
LAND AT IS AN ACRE.
The path of the pioneer is still opeI
III Aroostook. Land for settlement ir
'entral Aroostook can be bought at s.
al acre, in quantities to suit. Coco
.ealth, a few hundred dollars, an az
and good character are about all 6
nan needs to make start there.
If he is of the right sort he can gel
.iedit, and with hard work in few
Vars he will find himself on his feet
'IiI making money.
The log house is not to be despiseG
" the beginner in Aroostook, and il
makes a very comfortable dwelling
me land supplies the logs for making
The settler generally gives all hi