Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-19
STATE HOUSE.
Farmers Institute Season
Will Open, Tuesday.
First Will be Held With N0r|and
Grange, East Livermore.
! New Specimen at Fish and Game Museum
still Battles NatuTa|istS.

Hon A. w. Gilman of FoXcroft COM
missioner of agriculture for the State
Of Maine, was at the Capitol Saturday,
on matters of business connected with
| the department, which at present is one
IF the busy places in the building. s.
q. Thompson. the State inspector Of
dairy products, was also at the depart
ment.
Commissioner Gilman'S object for
coming to Augusta Saturday was bust
ness connected with the opening of the
farmers institute season, which will
commence the coming week. and will
include groups of institutes for Andres
| coggin, oxford and Cumberland
counties The Institutes will include
two weeks work. those of the two
counties first named being held during
| land county on the week following. Mr.
| Gilman will so Monday to East Liver
more, where the opening institute of the
series will be held on the following day,
at the hall of NOrland Grange.
Wednesday an institute will be held at
the Grange hall in Turner, and on
Thursday the meetings in Oxford coun-
ty will commence. the first being held
| in tn, Grange hall at Bryant's pond.
! Friday meeting will be held at the
Grange hall in DiXiield. and Saturday
at the Grange hall in East Summer
which vii; conclude the series for the
| week.
Prof. +. S. Cooley of Amherst. Mass.
OF the Massachusetts Agricultural Col
lege. will address the meetings, together
With other speakers from Maine. 1t is
| expected that the series will be an i'll
teresting one.
Inspector General Charles T.. Davis
| of the adjutant generals Office. was at
his desk in the department Saturday,
having returned from a trip to Boston,
where he had been as member of
| Governor Cobbs staff in attendance at
the reception given by the State Of
Maine Club on the occasion Of the semi
| ANNA! meeting of the Maine state
Board of Trade, which was held in that
city Thursday. Gen. Davis stated that
the reception was a most brilliant and
enjoyable affair. and that the members
of tn" club did everything in their
| power to make the visit of the Maine
delegation a pleasant one.
Since Factory Inspector George T.
Morrison Of Biddeford started to in
vestiE2te the conditions in the mills Of
his city to ascertain how many of the
| available school children really attend
ed school liz has been brought out that
Hidd"f"rd i: III" banner town in tn.
! stat" for poor Attendance. out of hc.'
$3.50 scholars only :t,> e. to $, II u! i..,:rl-
larry. or about J. percent This is. tie
| lowest average of any place H. TIL.
Tate with tn" exception OF Pn.t%g,.
| LAX" Plantation in AroostoOk county
which has an cverage attendance of Is
per cent.
! 1T IS rather a singular thing that in
all the cities in Eennebcc county half
the scholars attend school. while in
! toCkland &C per cent. of the avaiIlbl.
children are found on the rolls. the
largest percentage of any city in the
state. Belfast coming next with 81 per
cen In Lewiston. another Of the in
duStrlli CenteiS where SO much difficult
icy Is experienced in getting all the,
chiiircn out. only q per cent of them
ht'''Ni. III iortIand not quite half OF
the available population is found with
IN the walls, while in Bangor very
nearly half are enlisted. The highest
average attendance is found in the lit
tie town Of Perkins. an island lust on
roSite Richmond. where the record is
10 rer cent. for last year. nine out of
Inc ten scholars on the island going tn
school. Westbrook runs as low as ?;
per cent. The town of Beddington in
washington county has quite record
"t attendance. registering Sc per cent.
ana the town of Mariav vile in Hancock,
county. !, per cent.
On an average half the availabI.
scholars in Maine go to school. Piscat-
aHuis leading with Sc per cent. and An
idroscosGin county being the lowest with
81 per cent, 1t is understood that IN
spector Morrison is going to make uui,.
study this year of the undcrIvinp
causes OF non-attendance and try 70 in
crease the average throughout the
state.
| some discussion has arisen .,,,,,,