Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-14

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AS the result of the recent visit or
Adjutant General Farnham and Col.
Elliot G. Dill. inspector general of
| rife practice, to the State rifle range
| on the Whtten road, ii is understood
that work will soon be resumed on the
range and that it will be completed
| for use by the members of the Guard
during the coming summer Sealed
proposals have been asked for by Gen.
Farnham asking for bids for furnish
ing material and for performing labor
| in connection With the construction OF
the range, and will be received up TO
II o'clock, noon, Friday. May 18.
| S. G. Thompson. the State inspector
Of dairy products connected with the
department of agriculture. WAS at the
department for a few hours Saturday.
it being his first visit since the trip of
the farming special through the north
ern part of the State. Mr.. Thompson
stated that the department was still
continuing the work of examining milk
for adulteration and also with the Wis
consin curd test Work is also being
done on a plan for starting some as
/
} operations. the purpose of which is to
determine the value of each individual
COW of a herd by the amount of pro-
duct given for a year. This is to be
determined by weighing the milk night
and morning. and taking samples for
six consecutive milkings each month.
These associations have been success
fully established i'm the old darying
l til
of the cows have been increased. The
work on this plan is being done with
the hope of establishing the something
of the kind, and the plan is pretty well
perfected.
. Prof. +. F. Ifitchings of Waterville,
the State entomologist connected with
J the department of agriculture. Is send
ling out blanks to the city and town
clerks of the State for the purpose of
gathering statistics relative to the
brown-tail moth situation, and the
work which has been done in the diff
ferent places i'm the work of destroy
ing their nests. The blanks contain
a series of questions as to the amount
of money expended by the city or town
| in destroying the nests, the estimated
amounted expended by private citi-
liens or societies. the number of nests
destroyed i'm town. the estimated num-
Der of nests destroyed by private par
ties, the price paid for nests. nests of
other insects reported, the locality of
the largest number of nests. and the
names of the trees infested.
The commissioners of inland fish
cries and game have returned from a
"trip TO Franklin county where they
held two hearings Thursday on petit
tions regarding the closing Of some Of
the waters of that section to fishing
land also regulating the fishing in some
of the waters. At a hearing held at
the Phillips Hotel in the town of Phil
Hips. on a petition asking that the num-
Der and size Of fish to be taken In one
|day from Tufts, Dutton and Grind
. stone ponds in the town of Kingfield
La regulation was passed stating that
/, il shall be unlawful for any person to
. kill or have in possession more than
k 10 fish in all in any one day, taken
;, from Tufts, DuttOn or GrindstOne
. ponds. which ponds are situated i'm the
ltown of Kingfield. in Franklin county
!. and no trout less than eight inches ir
length and no salmon less than l. in
II ches i'm length shall be taken from
said waters for period of four year:
|. from May Is, 1906.
At hearing at the Rangeley Lake
House Rangeley, Thursday evening
u on a petition asking for the opening t
n fishing on three days of each weel
of brooks above Flag dam on the soutl
a branch of the Dead river, and that
s limit be placed on the number of fist
q TO be taken from the waters in ques
Ition on those days, a regulation wa