Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-12-18
Kent,s Hills New Barn.

The founder Of the Maine Wesleyan
Seminary and Woman's College, to
start the enterprise, gave farm with
buildings and stock, and followed this
gift with cash in response to after
needs of the school. Land has been
added to the original gift until the
school now has q farm Of nearly four
hundred acres Of excellent land, which
includes woodland, pasture and tillage
land.
For years the farm has largely fur
nished the school with vegetables, milk,
pork and some veal and beef. Butter
and grain for the stock has been largely
purchased.
One pair of horses, up to last year,
did most OF the farm work, and hauled
coal and supplies from the station four
miles away.
The school furnishes a good market
for what the farm produces and much
that it does not produce. 1t was de-
termined last year to increase the pro-
ductiveness of the farm to meet as
largely as possible the demands of the
school. Two spans of fine work horses
with needed harnesses, carts, sleds, etc.,
were purchased, and plans made to
double the farm products. The crops
of last year we're seventy tons Of hay,
six acres of oats, seven hundred bushels
of potatoes, besides garden vegetables
for the boarding house and roots for the
stock.
Some years ago modern piggery
was built, and this year will see the
completion of a modern hay and COW
barn which will be one of the best, If
not the best in the state for purposes OF
utility.
The building committee are 81. q.
Shaw of Portland and G.. A. Russell and
l.. II. Mckinney of Readfeld.
In planning for the increased pro-
ductivenes of the farm, Mr.. Shaw
secured the consent OF Rutillus Alden,
one of Winthrop's most successful
farmers, to accept a place on the board
of trustees, and to give the school the
benefit of his experience and wisdom in
the management of the farm.
Twenty acres, nearly all of which
have been ploughed, will be planted to
corn, potatoes, grain and other crops
next spring.
The new barn will make possible the
effective working of these plans. 1t is
double structure, having a hay barn
fifty feet wide, seventy-five feet long,
and twenty feet posted, and COW barn
extending south from the hay barn at
right angles thirty.eight feet wide,
seventy-five feet long and nine feet post
ed with a monitor roof.
The entire structure is built in the
most thorough and substantial manner.
The underpinning is first class, the eel
lars are large, high posted and we'll
drained. The walls of the entire build
ing are clapboarded and will be painted
In the main hay barn there is root
cellar with capacity of 1000 bushels,
room for the men, milk room, feed
room and hospital for sick animals, a
silo with a capacity of 100 tons, and
storage room for 10 tons of loose hay.
The COW barn has tieup for forty
COWS, and room for forty head of young
stock. This part of the structure is
lighted and thoroughly
ventilated. 1t is entirely separated by
partitions and doors from the main part,
so that no odor can be absorbed by the
hay. The latest and most improved
for feeding and watering,
hitching and caring for the stock will
be installed, such as automatic hay and
feed carriers, and individual automatic
watering troughs.
The new barn win not only greatly
enlarge the earning capacity of the
plant, and contribute an abundant sup
ply of pure milk and fresh butter for
school needs; but it will also be an
educational factor in teaching the prop
er and wise care of COWS kept for milk
purposes Farm and Home.