Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-09-12
Green wood.

Last Monday morning E. L. Durham
went to Oxford to take charge of the
retOrts in the corn factory, accompanied
by Floyd Morgan, who is to be his
assistant There is every prospect of a
fine harvest down there in common with
all other places.
A letter from d. o. Davis of Mimi
esota informs us that the wheat crop is
first class, while corn will be failure
unless the frost holds off through
September. That crop is uncommOnly
late in consequence of the cold, wet
spring. Again Mr.. Davis failed to COM
plete his farm trade; the first time his
wife refused to sign the papers thinking
he was selling it too cheap, and the next
time the mans wife objected to the
location. Mr.. Davis is native of Hart
| ford, and should he succeed in selling
out he would perhaps come back here
to spend the remainder of his days.
1t now looks as if Daniel Bryant would
lead this part of the town in the apple
crop. Some of the trees are so loaded
that the limbs are broken down, al
though propped up to prevent such
accidents.
They used to say that rainbow in
the morning gives sailors fair warning
and that is what we had last Tuesday at
o'clock A. NJ. Perhaps it is rather late
to speak of it as catching hay weather,
so will mention the fact that Frank
Brooks cut his oats more than week
ago, and they are still in the field at
this writing. But we take no stock in
the theory that because it rained the
first Sunday in this month it will do
likewise the other three. Sort of an
unbelieving Thomas, as it were.
How times change; fifty years ago
there were nearly as many colts as there
were mares to produce them; and during
this whole season we have seen but one
and that was a mule owned by son of
o. G. Whitman. And the same might
be said of geese and turkeys; half a
century ago those domestic fowls were
seen on almost every farm, while during
the past season we have seen but two
geese and one flock of turkeys. Verify
"there is only one thing constant and
that is change"
Winfield Emmons is family relative
and made us a visit recently. He had
been at work for company several
years up in the woods, and he said it
was surprising how they were grinding
up the forests; and the opinion of some
seems to be that in few years the last
tree will be cut for pulp or some other
purpose.
But the fact that the forests keep
growing, and in due time reproduce
themselves, seems generally to be over
looked; but they do, very similar to the
animal kingdom. To illustrate: Dur
ing the fall and winter of 1928 1
worked logging on township near Mt.
Katahdin; the company taking off about
one million of pine and spruce, mostly
the former; and that same township had
been cut over about 80 years previous,
the big stumps being everywhere in
evidence, and | presume the same terri
tory has been cut over once or twice
since that day.
Again: About % years ago l trim
med up fir tree in the edge of the bushes,
its size being about that of fork ham
die; and to-day that tree stands some
so feet in height and measures just 81
inches in circumference, one foot from
the ground.
In view of the fact then that Maine is
larger than all the other five New Eng
land states, and that large part of it is
still covered with timber, which when
removed will renew itself in genera
ton, we need have no fears that the
forests will all be used up during the
next 100 years, providing the fires are
kept out.